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The sale was secret, but word was quietly spread to selected western art dealers and collectors that the paintings were on the market. The first foreign buyer to purchase Hermitage paintings was Calouste Gulbenkian , the founder of the Iraq Petroleum Company , who began buying paintings in early 1930, trading them for oil with the Russians.
Two seasons of Russian Art Sales in London - June and December - dominate the world market for Russian Art, with specialised sales at Sotheby's, Christie's, MacDougall's and Bonham's. In 2008 MacDougall's reached second place behind Sotheby's, while in December 2009, it outsold all three competitors in Russian paintings. [1]
Russian Art Week was a major international art fair in London, UK, which takes places bi-annually every June and November.During the week the UK's four major auction houses Christie's, Sotheby's, MacDougall's and Bonhams present a programme of sales featuring Russian paintings and works of art.> Russian Art Week works in parallel with the salesrooms to provide a comprehensive listing of the ...
Zhostovo painting (Russian: Жостовская роспись) is a Russian folk handicraft. It involves painting metal trays. It is practiced in the village of Zhostovo in the Moscow Oblast. [1] It appeared in the early 19th century, mainly under the influence of the Ural handicraft of flower painting on metal.
There were several art collectors in the Shchukin family. Sergei's brother Pyotr Shchukin built an important collection of Russian ancient art and artifacts and owned several impressionist masterpieces, [1] [4] while his brother Dimitri Shchukin assembled "Moscow's best collection of Old Masters," which eventually entered the Pushkin Museum.
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square (1915) The Archangel Michael (13th c.). Pavel Tretyakov started collecting art in the middle of 1850. The founding year of the Tretyakov Gallery is considered to be 1856, when Tretyakov purchased two paintings of Russian artists: Temptation by Nikolay Shilder and Skirmish with Finnish Smugglers by Vasily Khudyakov, although earlier, in 1854–1855, he had bought ...
April 17 — Aleksandr Golovin (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Головин), Russian artist and stage designer (born 1863). September 25 — Abram Arkhipov (Russian: Архипов Абрам Ефимович), Russian Soviet painter and art teacher, People's Artist of the USSR (born 1862).
[1] [2] The Museum was founded by prominent art collectors Raymond and Susan Johnson, owners of the largest collection of Russian Realist paintings outside the borders of the former Soviet Union. [3] TMORA was incorporated as a nonprofit in 2002 and opened at its present location in 2005.