Bidding will take place in April-May.
Christie's Auction House launches a series of auctions on April 25, consisting of three parts, which hopes to raise a million dollars in aid to Ukraine. According to The Art Newspaper, the funds raised will be distributed through the World Wide Fund for Monuments (WMF) and its Ukrainian Heritage Foundation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and actor Sean Penn's CORE.
It is noted that the auction house has already made a donation to Ukraine by transferring funds to the UN Refugee Agency and the Red Cross. He also canceled sales in Russia scheduled for June due to the aggressor's invasion of Ukraine.
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Deputy Chairman Christie's Board of Directors Sonia Beckerman stated that “Ukraine is at the center of our attention in all areas.”
Offline sales within the campaign will take place from April 25 to May 5, and online – until the end of May. The auction will feature 86 paintings and drawings by Ukrainian avant-garde artists (such as Theophile Freerman and Amschei Nuremberg), Ukrainian modernists (Alexandra Exter and Alexander Bogomazov), as well as a selection of contemporary Ukrainian photographs and videos by diaspora artists, including Borys Mykhaylov and a native of Odessa. Magnifier.
The curator of the exhibition was Peter Doroshenko, who, according to Beckerman, “worked all his life with Ukrainian art.” The initiative aims to “help heritage conservationists in Ukraine lay the groundwork for future rehabilitation” with growing cultural losses.
Earlier, the National Gallery in London renamed Edagar Degas' painting “Russian Dancers”. Now it is called “Ukrainian Dancers”, and the gallery itself encourages other cultural institutions to follow its example and rethink “lazy” interpretations or misinterpretation of Ukrainian art and heritage.
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