Tuesday, 27^th June, 2006 Impressionist & Modern Art
27 èþíÿ 2006, 16:50
Tuesday, 27^th June, 2006
Impressionist & Modern Art
This promises to be Richard Aronowitz-Mercer’s most interesting and
successful sale yet. Following our success with modern Russian paintings
and drawings in December 2005 we have an exciting array of modernist
Russian works of art, which form the sale’s backbone.
The highlights include an extremely fine /Constructivist/ painting by
the Russian-Jewish painter, El Lissitzky. Entitled /Proun/, this canvas
has been in the collection of the same family for nearly sixty years.
Lissitzky's works of this quality are rarities at auction and this
wonderful example is estimated at £220,000-280,000. The sale also
includes about sixty Russian and Eastern European works of art from the
1890s to the 1960s, encompassing drawings, watercolours, paintings,
sculptures and propaganda posters. With prices ranging from £200 to over
£200,000, the scope of this section of the sale is very broad and caters
for all tastes and budgets.
Other works include a very fine, Chagall-like portrait in oils, /Man
with a Beard/, by Natan Altman at £50,000-70,000; a lively 1914 gouache
costume design for /Le Coq d'or/ by Natalia Goncharova at £1,800-2,500;
a vibrant abstract composition in gouache by Sonia Delaunay at
£5,000-7,000; and a beautiful watercolour portrait from 1892, /Vera
Ilyinishna Repina/, by the Russian Impressionist Ilya Repin at £7,000-9,000.
Alongside this richness of Russian works the sale also features a strong
Impressionist & Modern European Art section, including a very fine 1969
drawing of a Female Bust by Pablo Picasso at £7,000-9,000; two bronze
sculptures by Salvador Dali; a delightful watercolour of flowers from
1939 by Oskar Kokoschka at £6,000-8,000; and a fine 1970 oil-painting of
a colourful and near-abstract /Dog/ by the later COBRA artist, Karel
Appel at £25,000-35,000.Modern British Art closes the sale encompassing
paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculptures by landmark artists
such as Patrick Procktor, Augustus John, Francis Newton Souza, John
Bratby, Josef Herman, Stanley William Hayter and Edward Burne-Jones.
"El Lissitzky, Proun" "Natan Altman, Portrait of a Jewish Man"
Emily Hayes
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