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Art: Russian art sales in London feature five paintings by Aivazovsky

PanArmenian
June 3 2017

PanARMENIAN.Net – A Russian art sales week has kicked off in London. Sotheby´s, Christie´s and MacDougall auction houses will offer paintings of leading artists, as well as decorative art samples. As RIA Novosti told Panorama.am, the art works are put on auction from personal collections mainly from the U.S. and Europe. Generally the works are sold by descendants of immigrants, or their collectors and representatives.

The auction houses feature the paintings by Leon Bakst, Leonid Pasternak, Isaac Levitan, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Vasily Polenov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Vasily Kandinsky, Ilya Repin and other leading Russian artists.

Sotheby´s auction house will also put on sale five paintings by prominent Russian-Armenian seascape artist Ivan (Hovhannes) Aivazovsky, including the Crimean Coast and Coast at Moonlight Night.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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