10.12.2019

Watercolor on paper, scenography sketch for a theatre play. Russia, 19th century. Dimensions: 47.5 x 34 cm.

Starting price: €100
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Russian school of the 19th century “Wolf hunting with greyhounds”. Watercolor on paper, ceruse. Dimensions: 34 x 42.5 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 72 x 84 cm.

Starting price: €400
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“Circassian Horsemen at a River” reproduction attributed to Franz Roubaud. Oil on canvas, signature in the bottom left corner “F. Roubaud”. Dimensions: 43.5 x 61 cm.

Starting price: €300
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French school of the 19th century “Historical scene”. Oil on wood. Dimensions: 31 x 37 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 37.5 x 45 cm.

Starting price: €500
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Jan August Hendrik Leys (1815 – 1869) “Butcher Shop”. Oil on wood, signature on the left side “HLeys 1846”. Jan August Hendrik Leys (1815 – 1869) was a leading representative of the historical or Romantic school in Belgian art and became a pioneer of the Realist movement in Belgium. Dimensions: 49.5 x 66 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 67 x 86.5 cm.

Starting price: €800
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Valerian Babadin (1867 – beginning of the 20th century) “Young Woman with a Basket of Flowers”. Oil on canvas. Valerian Babadin (1867 – beginning of the 20th century) – a Russian landscape and still life painter in Realist style. Dimensions: 90 x 58 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 117 x 87 cm.

Starting price: €1,500
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Konstantin Gorbatov (1876 – 1945) “View of Capri”. Original signed lithograph, hand watercolor painting and additional charcoal complements. Konstantin Gorbatov (1876 – 1945) – a Russian post-impressionist painter, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. His works are exhibited at the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum and other important Russian and European museums. Dimensions: 34.5 x 30 cm. See similar: lot 60 Christie’s Russian Art 30 November 2015, London.

Starting price: €800
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Fedor Riznichenko (1869 – 1922) “Ukrainian Rural Landscape”. Oil on canvas, signature in the bottom left corner “О. Ризниченко”. Fedor Riznichenko (1869 – 1922) – a Russian landscape painter, exhibitor of the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions. Dimensions: 18.5 x 23.5 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 30.5 x 35 cm.

Starting price: €200
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Alexander Lazhechnikov (1879 – 1955) “Rural Landscape”. Oil on cardboard, signature in the bottom right corner “А.Лажечников”. Alexander Lazhechnikov (1879 – 1955) – a Russian painter. His works are exhibited at the Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. Dimensions: 25 x 37 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 38.5 x 50 cm.

Starting price: €500
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Amayak Akopyan (1871 – 1939) (?) “View on the Artanish village”. Oil on canvas, cardboard, signature in the bottom left corner “Акопiан”. Presentation inscription on the back side of the cardboard. Dimensions: 53.5 x 30 cm.

Starting price: €400
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Dannish school “Winter Landscape”. Oil on canvas, signature in the bottom right corner “W.Moras”. Attributed to Harald Julius Niels Pryn (1891 – 1968) , a Dannish painter. Walter Moras(?) (1856 – 1925) – a German landscape painter. Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm.

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Fyodor Fedorovsky (1883 – 1955), decoration sketch for the opera “Prince Igor”, 1934. Watercolor on paper, signature in the bottom left corner “Ф.Ф.Ф.”. Fyodor Fedorovsky (1883 – 1955) – a Russian and Soviet stage designer, painter, active member of the Soviet Academy of Arts, author of Kremlin stars and art director of the Bolshoi Theatre in years 1929-1953. Dimensions: 51.5 x 64.5 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 66.5 x 80 cm.

Starting price: €2,000
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Julia Brazol (1856 – 1919) “Still Life with Plums”. Watercolor on paper, signature in the bottom left corner “Юлiя Бразоль”. Julia Brazol (1856 – 1919) – a Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. She studied paintings in Ivan Aivazovsky’s workshops. Dimensions: 31.5 x 44 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 49 x 61.5 cm.

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Vera Pestel (1887 – 1952) “Still Life”. Oil on canvas, signature in the bottom right corner “В.Пестель 29”. Vera Pestel (1887 – 1952) – a Russian painter, active exhibitor at the Russian avant-garde exhibitions of years 1910s. Dimensions: 73 x 93 cm.

Starting price: €1,500
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Valentina Khodasevich (1894 – 1970), a scenography sketch for a theatre play. Valentina Khodasevich (1894 – 1970) – a Soviet painter, graphic artist and stage designer. She worked in Vladimir Tatlin’s atelier and participated in many Russian avant-garde exhibitions (Jack of Diamonds, Soyuz Molodyozhi and others). Dimensions: 55 x 43 cm.

Starting price: €150
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Costume design sketch. Watercolor on paper, charcoal, signature in the bottom right corner “BAKST 1921”. This sketch is a presumable copy of Leon Bakst’s sketch of year 1912 [private collection], painted by author himself. Leon Bakst (1866 – 1924) – a prominent Russian painter and scene and costume designer. Dimensions: 46 x 29 cm. Dimensions with the frame: 69 x 51 cm.

Starting price: €1,000
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Vladimir Stenberg (1899 – 1982) “Colour-Construction”. Oil on canvas, signature in the bottom right corner “В.Стенберг”.

Vladimir Stenberg (1899 – 1982) – a prominent Soviet graphic artist and constructivist. In 1919 Vladimir Stenberg alongside with his brother Georgii Stenberg and their comrades founds the OBMOKhU (Society of Young Artists). In 1920 he joins the INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture) – a theoretical and research based artistic organisation, where in November 1920 he begins working in a newly formed “Constructivist Group” (Aleksei Gan, Karlis Johansons, Konstantin Medunetsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova and brothers Stenberg). Members of this group experiment with composition and colours to achieve the transition “From the Image to Construction”. In this period (1920-1921) brothers Stenberg and Konstantin Medunetsky begin their research by creating the “colour-constructions”:

V.Stenberg “Colour-construction № 4” – The State Russian Museum,

V.Stenberg “Colour-construction № 10” – The State Tretyakov Gallery,

V.Stenberg “Colour-construction № 13”,

G.Stenberg “Colour-construction” – The Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan,

K.Medunetsky “Colour-construction” – The State Russian Museum,

К.Medunetsky “Colour-construction № 7” – The Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F.Kovalenko.

The brothers Stenbergs’ and Konstantin Medunetsky’s “colour-constructions” were exhibited at the famous Second OBMOKhU Exhibition in May-June 1921. Medunetsky’s “Colour-construction № 7” can be seen on the photographs of the exhibition taken by Rodchenko.

The key aspect of these experimental “colour-constructions” is the dynamic combination of a line with colour quasi-flat surfaces. Two presented paintings are very remarkable because they share the same subject with a different degree of abstraction. The shapes of workers on the first painting generate volume and give some context to the first painting, whereas the second painting without any contextual shapes is almost entirely flat and abstract. The difference between two paintings perfectly illustrates the constructivist idea of the transition “From the Image to Construction”.

Dimensions: 86 x 161 cm.

Starting price: €5,000
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Porcelain pair of dogs’ portraits by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer “Dignity and Impudence” (The Tate Museum, London) and “There’s No Place Like Home” (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). Signed: F. Miklewright. The British Empire, 19th century. Diameter: 13 cm.

Starting price: €300
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William Essex (Great Britain, 1784-1869) Head of a Bloodhound. Signed and dated ‘W.Essex 1863’ (on reverse) enamel diameter. (2cm.) mounted as a scarf pin to be sold with Head of a Bulldog; Head of a black and tan Terrier, both by the same hand, signed and dated, mounted as scarf pins (3)

Starting price: €1,200
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William Bishop Ford (Great Britain, 1832-1922). Head of a Retriever. Signed and dated ‘W B Ford/1867’ (on the reverse) enamel. Diameter. (2cm.) mounted as a scarf pin to be sold with A head of a Bloodhound; Head of a Bulldog; A Poodle, all painted by the same hand (4)

Starting price: €4,000
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