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Forum Admin:
We rarely will post auctions here in the Forum, but Bob and I were both so struck with the quality and selection of the pieces in this Auction to take place at the oldest auction house in the world, Stockholms Auktionsverk, in Sweden, on December 9, that we decided to let you know about it.  The provenance of many items is of itself noteworthy, including the Swedish Royal Family and Alfed Nobel.
http://www.auktionsverket.se/

Lots include: A group of postage stamps given by the Grand Duchesses to a tutor, Spectacular Russian "Jacob" furniture, Imperial Porcelain, fine Silver, several lots of genuine Faberge, a rare copy of the original Imperial Coronation  book of 1896 with Samokiche illustrations, and an amazing selection of Russian paintings, including works by Aivazovsky, Lev Bakst, Alexei Bogoliubov, Natalia Goncharova, Konstantin Gorbatov, Boris Grigoriev, Konstantin Korovin, Mikhail Larionov, Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Makovsky, Mikhail Nesterov, Vasili Polenov, Ilya Repin, Feodor Rokotov, Ivan Shishkin, Konstantin Somov, Sergei Sudeikin, Nikolai Sverchkov, and Mikhail Vrubel., as well as period portraits of Alexander III.  The star of the show, though is lot 84, an amazing original portait of Nicholas II by Lipgart, dated 1896. "Presumably from an Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg; Acquired from a private collection in France. It is possible that the painting was in the possession of a member of the Imperial Family who emigrated to France, or that it was sold off by the Soviets at auction in the 1920s or 30s."

Belochka:
Thank you FA, I enjoyed viewing the Russian paintings and drawings.

Hopefully many will return to Russia and can be appreciated by all in her museums and galleries. ;D

Robert_Hall:
Unfortunately, the catalogue state "without illustrations" ? Considering the recent magnificent Sotheby's royalty auction catalogues, seems a bit of a dissapointment.

David_Pritchard:
I have had at least a half dozen catalogues from Stockholms Auktionsverk since they became a private company and I do remember them being at least partially illustrated. I find it hard to believe that their catalogue for such a high end sale is unillustrated like an old Sotheby's Arcade sale or the even partially illustrated like the even older Sotheby's Belgravia sale. One can only imagine how many businessman types will be in attendance, hoping to impress their equally unsophisticated friends back in Moscow by bring home a prized work of Russian art to hang on the wall in their new three story dacha filled with all possible conveniences known to man.

David

Fontanka38:
I think there has been a misunderstanding..."Catalogue without illustrations" is just an option for those with slow download speeds. One can see all the illustrations by pressing on the option above it, "All objects"; and then, if one clicks on the pictures, one actually gets huge blow ups. On the contrary, the Scandinavian countries are so internet savvy that their websites tend to be much better illustrated than most. In this catalogue you can even look at the backs of pictures and the frames, as well as get close ups signatures...

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