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Art of the Soviet Union is publishedThe Art of the Soviet Union has been published by the Unicorn Press and is now available is book shops (Waterstones, Hatchards etc) and on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Art-Soviet-Union-Box-Set/dp/1910787892/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1527262887&sr=8-3&keywords=art+of+the+Soviet+Union The series is available as a box set or each volume can be bought individually. Artworks from the Russian Museum and Tretyakov Gallery have been used as well
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- Art of the Soviet Union is published
- Country and Town House Magazine – Article, Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds, The Nude in Soviet Art by Ivan Lindsay
- A new Series of books published on Russian art of the Soviet period
- Alchemy as Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi sells for an astonishing US$450m
- Tretyakov receives gift of Vladimir Nekrasov’s Korzhevs
- Leonardo’s troubled Salvator Mundi hits the block
- Russian art exports freeze up as Culture Ministry launches criminal probe into International Confederation of Artists Unions.
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The Art of the Soviet Union has been published by the Unicorn Press and is now available is book shops (Waterstones, Hatchards etc) and on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Art-Soviet-Union-Box-Set/dp/1910787892/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1527262887&sr=8-3&keywords=art+of+the+Soviet+Union The series is available as a box set or each volume can be bought individually. Artworks from the Russian Museum and Tretyakov Gallery have been used as well
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Ivan Lindsay and Rena Lavery have co-produced and co-authored a new Series of books on Soviet art, ‘Art of the Soviet Union.’ There are 4 volumes on Landscapes, Still Lives, Portraits and Nudes covering paintings and sculpture. The Series is published by the Unicorn Press and edited by Katia Kapushesky. There will a book launch
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It is official, the young hot shots in Christie’s contemporary art department are marketing geniuses and in the art world is now operating in the post-truth era. Post-truth follows post-idea, a theory popular in liberal circles in the US that big ideas are no longer sought after and have become elusive. Ideas seem smaller, not
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BIDDING WARSotheby’s finds itself locked in a battle with Dan Loeb, one of New York’s most aggressive fund managers. Loeb, 51, who refers to himself as an ‘activist investor’ (the current term for corporate raider), has built up a 9.3 per cent stake in the 269-year-old auctioneer using his Third Point LLC. Sotheby’s first realised
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The City of Detroit is bust. Selling off its exceptional hoard of art treasures could fix it – but not without complicated and legal consequences. Ivan Lindsay, The Good Life/ Art, Spears WMS Magazine, Issue No. 35, December 2013. ON 18 JULY, Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, seeking
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Munch The Scream lithography (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (This thoughtful article by Martin Sosnoff on the current enormous prices recently seen at the art auctions came out in Forbes). I relish evening contemporary art auctions in the Big Apple. It gives me a feel for the breadth and intensity of bidding on specific pieces of interest.
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Introduction In contemplating an Old Master painting, the frame is generally taken for granted. It is a fait accompli, and most of us may be unaware of how powerfully the frame can influence our perception and enjoyment of the picture within. The marriage of the two may be harmonious or discordant, enhancing or depressing, or
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