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Announcement of the auction ArtSale.info No. 25. Sveshnikov, Zverev, Yakovlev, Tal, Birstein, Zubarev, Kazarin and others. June 10–16, 2020

Submitted by: Владимир Богданов
on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 12:01
May
Nonconformist Boris Sveshnikov called his masterpiece “Crossing the May River”. May — with a capital letter. We did not find such a geographical name. There is the Far Eastern Maya, a tributary of Aldan. But Sveshnikov, obviously, had in mind something else. Something mythological or metaphorical. In the background we see a bridge over a gorge that two people cross. And probably a family of three is looking at us from the foreground. What kind of transition? What is the bridge? Bridge over fate? The border of two worlds? Or just the end of a difficult spring? In the mythology of different countries, the bridge over the river symbolizes the border between heaven and earth. The world of people and the world of the divine.
Sveshnikov, Boris Petrovich (1927–1998)
Zverev, Anatoly Timofeevich (1931–1986)
Yakovlev, Vladimir Igorevich (1934–1998)
Tal, Andrey Alekseevich (1951–2010)
Birstein, Max Avadievich (1914–2000)
Zubarev, Vladislav Konstantinovich (1937–2013)
Kazarin, Viktor Semyonovich (1948–2021)

Announcement of the auction ArtSale.info No. 24. Weisberg, Nemukhin, Zverev, Masterkova, Silis, Viting, Kapelyan and others. June 3–9, 2020

Submitted by: Владимир Богданов
on Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:01
Cube, ball, pyramid
Weisberg is an artist who needs to be able to watch correctly. He created his works in a special, very painstaking way. “White on white” is not just white paint on a white background. His paintings use a very complicated technology, based on a complex philosophy of metaphysical-color cognition of the world and a special system of color perception. On some viewers, Weisberg's paintings even have a psychic effect. The solution to the white had mystical significance for Weisberg — it was a symbol of the main secret, a great infinity and great silence.
Weisberg, Vladimir Grigorievich (1924–1985)
Nemukhin, Vladimir Nikolaevich (1925–2016)
Zverev, Anatoly Timofeevich (1931–1986)
Masterkova, Lydia Alekseevna (1927–2008)
Silis, Nikolay Andreevich (1928–2018)
Viting, Nikolay Iosifovich (1910–1991)
Kapelyan, Grigory Isaakovich (1940)

Announcement of the auction ArtSale.info No. 23. Silis, Lemport, Ney, Kulik, Nemukhin, Gerasimov, Gintovt and others. May 27 — June 2, 2020

Submitted by: Владимир Богданов
on Wed, 05/27/2020 - 12:01
Don Quixote, fragment
The sculpture “Don Quixote” is a programmatic work in the works of Nikolai Silis — the artist of the innovative group of sculptors of the sixties “LeSS” (Lemport-Silis-Sidur). Usually Don Quixote is portrayed as a grotesque character — ridiculous, with a weirdo lost in time. And here is a completely different Don Quixote. Don Quixote is happy. Peaceful, sitting in lotus position and admiring a wildflower. A sort of Zen Quixote. Comprehending the meanings. And the mills? What are mills? Perhaps only part of the game, the role and social camouflage.
Silis, Nikolay Andreevich (1928–2018)
Lemport, Vladimir Sergeevich (1922–2001)
Ney, Alexander (1939)
Kulik, Oleg Borisovich (1961)
Nemukhin, Vladimir Nikolaevich (1925–2016)
Gerasimov, Alexander Mikhailovich (1881–1963)
Gerasimov, Sergey Vasilievich (1885–1964)
Gintovt, Alexey Yurievich (1965)

Announcement of the auction ArtSale.info No. 22. Vasilkovsky, Zverev, Nemukhin, Kacharov, Novikov, Grositsky, Vulokh, Batynkov, Kropivnitsky and others. May 20–26, 2020

Submitted by: Владимир Богданов
on Wed, 05/20/2020 - 12:02
The end of winter, fragment
Sergei Ivanovich Vasilkovsky in a new manner is called a Russian-Ukrainian artist. He was born in the Kharkov province, but studied in St. Petersburg, at the Imperial Academy of Arts with Klodt and Orlovsky. Then he trained for several years in France, even participated in the Paris Salon. But, of course, the most fruitful and inspired his creative years are connected with Ukraine, with Kharkov. The artist became famous thanks to the soulful landscapes of southern nature and his favorite Cossack theme.
Vasilkovsky, Sergey Ivanovich (1854–1917)
Zverev, Anatoly Timofeevich (1931–1986)
Nemukhin, Vladimir Nikolaevich (1925–2016)
Kacharov, Oscar Abramovich (1924–2007)
Novikov, Timur Petrovich (1958–2002)
Grositsky, Andrey Borisovich (1934–2017)
Vulokh, Igor Alexandrovich (1938–2012)
Batynkov, Konstantin Aleksandrovich (1959)
Kropivnitsky, Lev Evgenievich (1922–1994)

Announcement of the auction ArtSale.info No. 21. Prigov, Levitan, Shubina, Nemukhin, Kalinin, Izmailov, Titov and others. May 13-19, 2020

Submitted by: Владимир Богданов
on Wed, 05/13/2020 - 12:01
Head, fragment
“Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov” — exactly so, with full patronymic — this is not just a name, but the name of a long-term art project, in the center of which stood this man-orchestra. Prigov is an avant-garde artist, a key figure in Moscow conceptualism, a poet, artist, sculptor and performance artist. In the summer of 2007, on the day when he had a heart attack, he was supposed to participate in the next performance. His followers from the group “War” were planning to put Prigov in a Soviet closet and take him up the stairs to the 22nd floor of the Moscow State University dormitory during the day to read his poems.
Prigov, Dmitry Alexandrovich (1940–2007)
Levitan, Isaac Ilyich (1860–1900)
Shubina, Galina Konstantinovna (1902–1980)
Nemukhin, Vladimir Nikolaevich (1925–2016)
Borisov, Leonid Konstantinovich (1943–2013)
Kalinin, Vyacheslav Vasilievich (1939–2022)
Izmailov, Evgeny Askerovich (1939)
Titov, Vladimir (1950)

Our answer to Cattelan. ArtSale.info will hold one-day auction for Moskovsky Komsomolets' bold art experiment

Submitted by: Владимир Богданов
on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 23:06
Aleksey Iorsh and Maria Moskvicheva

The MK action, invented by the journalist and curator Maria Moskvicheva, is a hommage to the scandalous banana on the scotch tape by the artist Maurizio Cattelan. The perishable fruit from the challenging installation “Comedian” has just been sold for $120,000. This trading episode again raised a wave of debate about the price and value of art, the boundaries permissible in its forms, as well as the hype and fake nature of the contemporary art market.

Cattelan, Maurizio (1960)
Iorsh, Alexey (1963)

VIDEO: Konstantin Babulin talks about the top lots of auction No. 2

Submitted by: Владимир Богданов
on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 15:42
Grositsky. Diptych

Rabin with written confirmation by the author, Zverev’s oil with the expertise by Silaev, graphics by Eduard Steinberg, signed print by Mikhail Chemiakine, diptych by Grositsky and other interesting offers

The auction ends on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 12:00

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Joseph Kobzon in the drawing by Tamara Zinovieva

Submitted by: Владимир Богданов
on Sat, 12/07/2019 - 17:17

Joseph Kobzon sitting.

The artist: Tamara Zinovieva.

Portraits of Zinovieva are not images painted from nature. These are biomorphic images (conditionally reminiscent of bodies and faces) woven from sensations and experiences. So her Kobzon is not a man, but a lump, a bunch of energy, an era. A large, powerful thing. Museum level.

Wednesday, December 10, 2019, at ArtSale.info Auction https://artsale.info/auction/

Zinovieva, Tamara Alexandrovna (1954)
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