Congratulations to H. Cardon who placed the winning bid of $2,750 for "Landscape", by Veniamin A. Safaonov, valued at $4,000- $5,000.
For our November silent auction we present this wonderful painting, "Autumn is Coming", by one of the premier landscape artists of the second half of the twentieth century, Mikhail Vasilievich Akinshin. Akinshin had a unique ability to capture people as well as the beautiful landscapes of village life. He painted the countryside with emotion and reverence, always full of truth and integrity. Akinshin captured the gentility, vastness and living breath of the countryside of his native Ukraine and Uzbekistan where he studied.
In this work Akinshin combines the spontaneity of a one time plein air outing together with the bright, particularly Ukrainian, colors that are noted in many artists of the period. Mikhail Vasilievich Akinshin brings a vibrancy and spirit to this piece which marks it as a classic.
Don't miss this rare opportunity to add a great work by a fantastic artist to your collection. The Current bid is just $3,250!
We invite you to participate in this month's auction and thank everyone who placed bids last month. The next bid is $3,500, followed by minimum bidding increments of $250. The auction will end Saturday November 30th at 6:00 pm. Follow all the bidding updates on the Gallery's web site.
Good Luck
Stephen Justesen, Gallery Director
BID FORM
 Mikhail Vasilievich Akinshin, "Autumn is Coming"
32'' x 41'',1963, Oil on Canvas
Estimate: $4,500- $5,500, Winning Bid $4,000 E. Rogas
Mikhail Vasilievich Akinshin, (1927- 1980) Zaporozhye, Ukraine
Translated from the original Russian
Mikhail Vasilievich Akinshin was born on February 18, 1927 in the village Lomovo, Kursk Region into a peasant's family. In 1951 M.V. Akinshin finished the Tashkent Art School. For a year he taught drawing at school. In 1953 he moved to the town of Zaporozhye and since this time has worked as a professional artist.
The artist travels often and has visited many places of our country. Everywhere, he tries to see and reproduce characteristic features of the terrain and its coloring. At the same time, M.V. Akinshin emphasizes skillfully his creative projects and in doing so retains peculiarities of his pictorial vision. The artist is especially carried away with diversity of our life, with fast rhythms and dynamics of contemporaneous. Probably, because of this, the local landscape became the main genre of his creative work.
Among landscapes created by M.V. Akinshin from 1968 to 1970, it is necessary to mention the picture titled "A Northern Little Town - Velikiy Ustyug". Here the artist's beloved composition device is used -- high horizon. It gave the artist the opportunity to show the place from the bird's eye view. The attention is attracted to the originality of the old town.
However, the artist does not consistently repeat this skillfully found method. For example, in the other landscape "Evening", the same place is represented in a different way. Here the view is from below with sharp color contrasts of bright red and orange buildings against the blue sky background. The artist shows a close-up of several buildings in major optimistic combinations with the Old Russian architecture.
He gives much attention to the work on studies during yearly trips over towns of our country. His paintings are not simply enlarged studies, not merely a mechanical transfer of a motif but laborious work on assertions of his views, image bearing executions of reality filled with personal feelings, emotional experiences and thoughts.
The landscape "Summer" which is in Zaporozhye Art Museum should also be attributed to the best of his works. Having reached the creative maturity, Mikhail Vasilievich Akinshin peers into life fixedly and represents it more truthfully and deeply.
Akinshin, Mikhail Vasilievich (1927-1980)
- Born in Kursk, studied at Tashkent Art College. Active in Zhaporozhe, Ukraine from 1953. Specialized
in landscapes.
- Since 1968 he has been a member of the USSR Union of Artists and takes an active part in regional and
republican exhibitions.
- Mikhail Akinshin is listed in "A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Paintings, 1900-1980", by Matthew Cullerne Brown.
Congratulations to L. Fey who placed the winning bid of $3,750 for "The March in the Village", by the great Russian landscape painter, Vladimir Pavlovich Krantz. January's auction was another exciting one with several bids coming in the last days and even last minutes of the auction.
For our February silent auction, we are pleased to offer a wonderful and very colorful still life, "Vegetables" by Larisa Pavlovna Beshkinskaya, daughter of the famous Georgian artist Pavel Vasilyevich Beshkinsky.
This is indeed a rare opportunity not to miss! Estimated at $5,000 to $6,000. Winning bid $3,000.
The daughter of one of the most honored of all Georgian painters, Larisa Pavlovna Beshkinskaya, created a great name and reputation on her own in Moscow. She was one of the premier painters of an important, if short lived, movement in Soviet art, know as the Severe Style. Larisa Pavlovna's 1984 work entitled "Vegetables" combine two of her passions- Northern Russia and the Severe Style. This painting was done following a long day of physical work tending the garden at her dacha. After getting her hands dirty weeding, tilling and harvesting it was time to take up her paint brush. For Larisa Pavlona it was her slight harvest of hard-fought-for vegetables that she immortalized in this colorful example of the Severe style and of the work of one of Russia's most important female artists of the twentieth century.
We invite you to participate in this month's auction and thank everyone who placed bids last month. The next bid is $3,000, followed by minimum bidding increments of $250. Please note that you may place a maximum bid and the Gallery will bid on your behalf up to your maximum. The auction will end Friday February 28th at 9:00 pm. Follow all the bidding updates on the Gallery's web site.
Good Luck
Stephen Justesen, Gallery Director
BID FORM
Larisa Pavlovna Beshkinskaya "Vegetables"
39¼'' x 31½'', (100 x 80 cm) 1984, Oil on Canvas
Estimate $5,000 to $6,000, Winning Bid, $3,000, M. Bucciarelli
Larisa Pavlovna Beshkinskaya (1939, Moscow - 2001, Moscow)
Daughter of the famous Georgian artist, Pavel Vasilyevich Beshkinsky.
A painter of still-lifes, portraits and landscapes. In 1970 she created a series of works devoted to the Russian North. She followed the "Severe" style. Larisa was a regular exhibitor in the Moscow, regional, All-Soviet and foreign art exhibitions. Her works are kept in Russian and foreign private collections.
The Severe Style emerged in 1957 and is said to have concluded in the early 1960's (although works were made by its practitioners for many years afterward), so its history basically coincides with that of the Khrushchev thaw. The thaw began in 1956, the year Khrushchev denounced the Stalin cult of personality as well as his crimes against the Soviet people in his Secret Speech to the Twentieth Party Congress. The thaw was a very exciting, hopeful period in which for the first time in many years Soviet citizens felt free to speak honestly without fear of immediate arrest or execution. It gave the citizenry a sense of empowerment during the thaw, one that led to the Severe Style.
The style was largely initiated by young artists in Moscow and the Latvian capital of Riga. Along with Latvia, the other Baltic Republics were at the forefront of the movement (it was interesting to note that it was in the Baltic Republics that the events of 1989-91 that led to the downfall of the Soviet empire began). The Baltic republics' proximity to Western Europe was important, and indeed the Severe Style has important links with Italian Neo-Realism and British school of Kitchen Sink Realism.
The chief promoter of the style was the critic Alexander Kamenskii. He later characterized the Severe Style artists as "furious, passionate commentators on society"-and that they were. It was he who coined the term "Severe Style" retrospectively, in 1969.
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Congratulations to P. Baker who placed the winning bid of just $1,000 for May's silent auction piece "Landscape of Zakarpatye" by Mikhail Vasilievich Akinshin, Estimate $3,000- $3,500.
For our June silent auction we present this wonderful landscape, by one of the premier landscape artists of the second half of the twentieth century, Nina Pavlova Volkova.
We invite you to participate in this month's auction and thank everyone who placed bids last month. The next bid is $500, followed by minimum bidding increments of $250. Please note that you may place a maximum bid and the Gallery will bid on your behalf up to your maximum. Bids will be taken via telephone, fax, or e-mail until the auction ends at 6 :00 pm June May 30th. Follow all the bidding updates on the Gallery's web site.
Stephen Justesen, Gallery Director
Tel: 435.658.1691 Fax: 435.658.1730
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BID FORM
 Nina Pavlona Volkova
"Last Snow"
16¾'' x 23¼'', (42.50 x 59 cm)
1965, Oil on Canvas
Estimate $3,000- $4,000, Current Bid $1,500, M. Caravati
Nina Pavlovna Volkova (1917 - 1993)
Translated from the original Russian
Nina Volkova was born in Kiev in 1924. She graduated from the Kiev Art Institute, and for a long time worked as a professor at the Kiev Art Institute. Nina is one of the representatives of the Kiev Art School (very bright in colors, impressionistic style). This style was very often criticized by authorities for brightness during the cold war period. In spite of this, she was a very popular artist in former USSR. Her work exhibited in Odessa, Kiev Art museums. Nina participated in art shows in Germany, Sweden, Italy and England.
She died in 1989 in Kiev.
Congratulations to M. Caravati who placed the winning bid of just $1,500 for June's silent auction piece "Last Snow" by Nina Volkova, Estimate $3,000- $4,000.
For July's Silent Auction --we have decided to not split up a couple! For this month's auction we have selected not one but TWO great works by the renowned Ukrainian artist, Victor Kirillovich Gaiduk. We felt that the two works were so perfect together that they should be auctioned together. Remember when placing your bid--it is for both paintings.
Don't miss this rare opportunity to add a TWO great works by a distinguished artist to your collection. The Current bid is just $2,250!
We invite you to participate in this month's auction and thank everyone who placed bids last month. The next bid is $2,500, followed by minimum bidding increments of $250. Please note that you may place a maximum bid and the Gallery will bid on your behalf up to your maximum. Bids will be taken via telephone, fax, or e-mail until the auction ends at 9:00 pm, Thursday July 31st. Follow all the bidding updates on the Gallery's web site.
Stephen Justesen, Gallery Director
Tel: 435.658.1691 Fax: 435.658.1730
email:
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website: www.McCartheyGallery.net
BID FORM
Victor K. Gaiduk,"Spring Countryside", 19¾'' x 26½'', 1970's, Oil on Board
Victor K. Gaiduk, "Fall Fields", 19¾'' x 27½'', 1970's, Oil on Board
Estimate for both works, $3,500- $4,000, Winning Bid, $2,250 by S. McCarthey
Here is a review from a Soviet gazette of the work of Victor Kirillovich Gaiduk:
"Only a small minority of Soviet landscape painters put the emphasis on what they felt rather than on what they saw, and even fewer committed themselves to striking a balance between emotion and observation. Among the latter was the Ukrainian Victor Kirillovich Gaiduk, a painter of large, bold, highly subjective landscapes that were painted in the field and that always represented a particular place and time.
And passionate it is, what with his swirling, low-lying horizons, and hearty daubs of paint that become trees, hills, buildings, and forests if viewed from the proper distance. The result, depending on one's point of view, is art that is visionary, ecstatic, ominous, highly romantic - or even a combination of all the above.
Gaiduk's work is not is dull nor like everyone else's. Even someone wishing to criticize his work has to admit that it is totally unique. And why shouldn't it be? It comes from deep within him, reflects his own profoundly Ukrainian personal view of life and the world around him, and was brought into being only after years of dedication and hard work.
 Victor Kirillovich Gaiduk, 1926-1992
(Haiduk)
Born in Zaporozhye, Ukraine in 1926. He trained at the Zaporozhye association of artists in the studios of the famous Ukrainian artists G. and B. Kolosovsky between 1951 to 1957.
Active in Zaporozhye, Ukraine.Gaiduk began exhibiting in 1953. Gaiduk was a member of the National Union of artists.
Victor Kirillovich g Gaiduk is listed in "A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Paintings 1900-1980th" by Matthew Cullerne Bown.(page 92).
Active in Zaporozhye, Ukraine.Gaiduk began exhibiting in 1953. Gaiduik's works are included in major national museums, the Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum, in numerous galleries and private collections in Ukraine, Russia and worldwide.
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