CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN ART AUCTION Monday, 25 November 2019, 14:30
IMPORTANT RUSSIAN ART AUCTION Wednesday, 27 November, 2019, 10:30
Asia House, 63 New Cavendish St, London W1G 7LP
In an unprecedented and exciting development within the Russian market, MacDougall’s is thrilled to announce that it will be holding an auction devoted to Russian Contemporary Art in London on November 25.
This important sale will be the first in London to feature such a carefully curated selection of works by such a particularly wide variety of Contemporary and Non-Conformist artists, and features works drawn from a truly international collecting base that includes Hong Kong and Sweden as well as Russia.
The auction will highlight significant works by artists as diverse as the more established Contemporary practitioners such as Oleg Tselkov and Oscar Rabin to pioneering artists of the younger generation including Pavel Pepperstein and Evgeny Mitta. The auction has been
The auction will be led by Mikhail Shvartsman’s iconic work Krepost Glavy (estimate £70,000–90,000) from an important European collection. Executed over the course of a decade – 1978 to 1987 – the composition effectively chronicles the artist’s creative journey during this period amidst the atmosphere of intoxicating intellectual ferment. Like many of
Pavel Pepperstein’s “Empty Icons” Series will occupy an important place within the auction (estimate £70,000–90,000). In this series, some meditative searches of the artist are manifested as part of his work as a member of the group of artists known as “Inspection Medical Hermeneutics”, of which he was the founder.
Particular attention should be paid to the landmark work by Oleg Vassiliev A Road, painted in 1988 (estimate £
Amongst other top lots included in the auction are examples of works by Ivan Chuikov, Boris Orlov, Oscar Rabin, Oleg Tselkov and Eduard Gorokhovsky.
Venturing into unknown territory, artists Katrin Fridriks and Jan Kaláb took a chance on one…
Pushing the boundaries of artistic expression, visionary artist Melissa Herrington’s large-scale, abstract paintings blur the boundaries between mediums,…
Alexandre Iakovleff (1887-1938) - famous Russian painter, graphic artist, master of drawing, portraitist, author of…
Drawing inspiration from a wide breadth of sources, including ancient mythology, fairy tales and fables,…
It is irregular for illustrators to work alongside research and development industries, such as public…
Beginning Thursday, April 4 and running through Thursday May 18, Cavalier Gallery is pleased to present the…