Famous auction houses in the run-up to the "Russian auctions" in London will hold exhibitions in Moscow

In early November, just three auction houses will hold an exhibition in the Russian capital on the eve of the London auctions of Russian art.

Sotheby's, November 1-2
The State Museum of Architecture. A.V.Shusev, the wing of Ruin
Vozdvizhenka street, 5/25

For two days, on November 1 and 2, 35 works will be seen from the November auctions, including the works of Ivan Aivazovsky, Konstantin Somov, Lev Bakst, Zinaida Serebryakova, and Tahir Salakhov, Grisha Bruskin, Semyon Faibisovich and Rinat Voligamsi. In the center of attention, undoubtedly, will be a picture of Nikolai Feshin from the collection of the California Art Museum of San Diego. Portrait of the student Feshin, an artist and patron of art Nadezhda Sapozhnikova, is estimated at £ 1.2-1.8 million.

McDougall's, November 2-3
House of Zubov on Taganka
street A. Solzhenitsyn, 9, p. 1

The exhibition will be more modest in volume, only 13 works, but for the first names of MacDougall's is not far behind: here are Vasily Polenov, Alexander Deineka, Konstantin Korovin, Sergei Sudeikin, Boris Grigoriev. Basically, these are works from two large foreign private collections, so the exhibition in Zubov's mansion is a unique opportunity to see, for example, Alexander Deineka's painting "Heroes of the First Five-Year Plan" or two works of Vasily Polenov from the Gospel cycle before they fall into the hands of new owners.

Christ's, 9-10 November
Christie's office in Moscow
Romanov pereulok, 2 / 6-13

Exposition Christie's promises to be a chamber (it will fit in a small exhibition hall of the Moscow office of the auction house), but exquisite. Firstly, a very rare collection of Faberge objects with a perfect provenance will be brought to Moscow. According to the head of the Russian department of Christie's Alexei Tizengauzen, "this collection was collected by one person more than 30 years ago, collected little and carefully and very appreciated the skill of Faberge."