Exhibitions

We invite you to our upcoming auction. One of the top lots: "To School" by N.I. Osenev. 1948.

On February 24, the Sovcom Gallery opens a pre-auction exhibition for Auction 198, which will take place on March 26 at 7:00 PM. The auction will feature over 150 lots—paintings, graphic works, and porcelain, primarily from the 20th century—most of which will be on display at the exhibition.

Among the auction's top lots are works by Arseny Meshchersky, Efim Volkov, Pavel Sokolov-Skal, Dmitry Zhilinsky, Geliy Korzhev, and Pyotr Ossovsky, a selection of porcelain figurines, and a string of original photographic prints.

One of the highlights of the exhibition and the upcoming auction is Dmitry Dmitrievich Zhilinsky's "Artist and Model" from 1968. The hardboard piece offered for auction is a sketch for the famous painting of the same name, created in 1971 and now in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery. Even in the sketch, Zhilinsky demonstrates himself as a master of the subtlety and psychological insight that his pictorial language developed in the 1970s. A nude model hovers at the center of the composition, apparently Lyudmila Volkonskaya, one of the artist's favorite models. Zhilinsky marks his presence in the work with a self-portrait, painted as a reflection in a mirror, which is already conceived in the sketch offered for sale.

Particularly noteworthy in the March auction is a canvas by Yefim Yefimovich Volkov entitled "Calm," from the 1880s. The work is a true confirmation of Volkov's ardent adherence to the pictorial traditions of the landscape genre, depicting places dear to the heart and eye of the Russian people. Volkov was one of the greatest landscape painters of the second half of the 19th century, representing the lyrical movement. In terms of subject matter, composition, and date of creation, the painting presented for examination is a variant of a painting of the same name, exhibited in 1883 at the 11th exhibition of the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions.

Also noteworthy is the work by Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skal, "Fishermen in the Port," 1947. A student of Ilya Mashkov in his Moscow studio, Pavel Petrovich is a prominent exponent of the historical and battle genres. This genre painting, featuring a fishing port, present for auction, combines precisely these monumental genres, which are present in even the artist's most inconspicuous and everyday works. The work is of undoubted museum and collector's value.

Among the top lots of the upcoming auction, is a large string of photographic prints, including works by Emmanuel Noevich Evzerikhin, Evgeny Ananyevich Khaldei, and Mikhail Sergeyevich Likhachev. In addition to historically significant photographs, the auction will also feature a rich selection of reproductions of beautifully designed Western European posters from the 1930s by Gorde, Kassandre, Broder, and others.

The pre-auction exhibition will be held from February 24 to March 25 at st. Shchepkina, 28.

Viewing time on weekdays from 10:00 to 19:00, on weekends from 11:00 to 18:00.

We will be happy to provide all the necessary information, accept applications for absentee participation and applications for participation in auctions by phone.