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Wednesday, 18 April 2012

SALE: Sotheby's to offer Aivazovsky masterpiece, 24 April, London


Sotheby’s Orientalist Sale will take place in London on Tuesday, 24 April 2012. Showcasing paintings, drawings and sculpture depicting Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa, the auction will be led by masterpieces by the Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky and the Turkish painter and polymath Osman Hamdy Bey. Comprising 33 lots, the sale is estimated to bring in excess of £6 million.
LOT 6
IVAN KONSTANTINOVICH AIVAZOVSKY
RUSSIAN
1817-1900
VIEW OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE BOSPHORUS
signed in Cyrillic and dated 1856 lower right
oil on canvas
124.5 by 195.5cm., 49 by 77in.
ESTIMATE 1,200,000-1,800,000 GBP


Claude Piening, Head of Sotheby’s Orientalist Paintings Department, said: “Sotheby’s stand-alone Orientalist Sale will present some thirty works of the highest quality. We are committed to this important sector in the nineteenth-century market which has enjoyed robust growth over the last ten years, not least because of new interest from North Africa and the Middle East. We have therefore decided to create a ‘Masterpiece’ Orientalist Sale to coincide with a three-day series of related sales at Sotheby’s with the theme of Turkish and Islamic Week: Classical to Contemporary.  We are particularly fortunate to be offering two highly important and extremely rare works by Aivazovsky and Hamdy Bey, which represent a unique opportunity for private and institutional collectors alike. Great works by Hamdy Bey are exceptionally rare, with the added fascination that they provide a Turk’s – rather than an outsider’s – interpretation of life in the region.”

Among the highlights in the sale are:
  • View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus by Ivan Aivazovsky, estimated at £1,200,000-1,800,000
  • The Scholar by Osman Hamdy Bey, executed in 1878, estimated at £3,000,000-5,000,000
  • Le Hajj by Alfred Dehodencq, estimated at £100,000-150,000
  • John Frederick Lewis’ watercolour, Halt in the Desert, estimated at £80,000-120,000
  • Two paintings depicting Egypt by Edward LearPhilae (estimated at £30,000-40,000) and Sheik Abadeh on The Nile (estimated at £30,000-40,000)
  • One of the most iconic images in nineteenth-century Orientalist art, Le Simoun, by Eugène Fromentin, estimated at £200,000-300,000
  • Rebecca by Boris Anisfeld, one of a series of Biblical subjects, estimated at £200,000-300,000
  • Mauresque noire by Charles Cordier, an important rediscovered bust, estimated at £50,000-80,000

Ориентальные  торги Sotheby’s пройдут в Лондоне во вторник24 апреля 2012. Аукцион живописи, рисунков и скульптуры, изображающих Турцию, Ближний Восток и Северную Африку возглавят  шедевры русского великого живописца Ивана Айвазовского и турецкого художника и эрудита Османа Хамди Бея. На торгах будет представлено 33 лота, которые должны принести более £6 млн.

Клод Пенинг, глава Отдела ориентальной живописи Sotheby’s, сказала: «На специальных торгах восточного искусства Sothebys будет представлено около тридцати произведений высочайшего качестваМы уделяем большое внимание этому сектору рынка XIX века, который последние десять лет радует нас своим динамичным ростом, не в последнюю очередь - из-за возросшего интереса со стороны покупателей из Северной Африки и с Ближнего Востока. Поэтому мы решили параллельно с серией тематически взаимосвязанных трехдневных торгов Sothebys “Неделя искусства Турции и исламского мира: традиция и современность”  запустить еще и торги шедевров  ориентального искусства. Тем более что нам выпала редкая удача:  предложить как частным собирателям, так и институциям две великолепные и очень редкие работы -  Айвазовского и Хамди Бея. Помимо того, что большие работы Хамди Бея крайне редки, их притягательность возрастает и потому, что это взгляд турка на свою страну, а не чужестранца».

Monday, 5 December 2011

MacDougall's results for Russian Art Week


MacDougall Auctions maintains its leader position in Russian art selling paintings, icons and works of art for over 12m GBP. The painting Merchant’s Wife , by Boris Kustodiev, sold for over 1.8m GBP, making it one of the three most expensive lots of London's Russian Week. A new world record was set for the avant-garde artist Aleksandr Volkov whose painting Listening to the Bedana was sold for 909,000 GBP. Among other top lots sold were works by Ivan Aivazovsky for 782,000 GBP, Michail Nesterov for 597,000 GBP and Aleksei Savrasov for 498,000 GBP. A stage design by Leon Bakst sold for 850,000 GBP, the most expensive work on paper of the week, and over 20 times its estimate. The Russian Icons auction raised a further 834,000 GBP; MacDougall’s is the only auction house in the world who holds a regular specialised icons sale.
  
William MacDougall commented: “We are very pleased with the results which prove that the Russian art market continues to be very strong”. 
 
Part I: Important Russian Art                                  8,872,505                                 
Part II: Russian Classic and Contemporary Art    2,315,638
Russian Icons and Works of Art                               834,255
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TOTAL                                                                  12,022,398 

Top Lots Lot 10 Nesterov, 597,000 GBP
Lot 12 Volkov, 909,000 GBP
Lot 14 Kustodiev, 1,840,000 GBP
Lot 27 Aivasovsky, 782,000 GBP
Lot 33 Savrasov, 498,000 GBP
Lot 401 Bakst, 850,000 GBP
Lot 513 Icon, 224,700 GBP