Marc_David_Miller

Those in London who have an interest in Russian art, or in Contemporary art, would appreciate the upcoming lectures in advance of the Russian auction. Admission is free to all of the lectures and no RSVP is required. I’ll be at all of them (especially Tuesday’s talk by Natalia Kolodzei, my wife!)

Location:

Sotheby’s--The Book Room
34–35 New Bond Street
London W1A 2AA

Sunday 11 February 12:00 – 1:00PM
Paradoxes of Collaboration in Art. From Idoloclasm to Spirituality
Speaker: Vitaly Komar Artist (www.KomarandMelamid.org)

Monday 12 February 1:00pm–2:00pm
Nonconformist Art and its Social and Political Context.
Speaker: Dr. Alla Rosenfeld Vice President, Russian Art Department Sotheby’s New York and formerly curator of Russian and Soviet nonconformist art at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Jersey. (www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu)

Monday 12 February 6:00pm–7:00pm
Can one buy Contemporary art?
Speaker: Dr. Dmitri Ozerkov Senior Curator of Western European Art at the State
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. (www.Hermitage.ru)

Tuesday 13 February 1:00pm–2:00pm
Trends in Russian Art following Perestroika
Speaker: Natalia Kolodzei the Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, New Jersey, and owner of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art (www.KolodzeiArt.org)

Sale: Thursday 15 February 2:30pm

For further information, call +44 20 7293 5570

EXHIBITION
Sunday 11 February
12 noon to 4pm
Monday 12 February
9am to 4.30 pm
Tuesday 13 February
9am to 4.30 pm
Wednesday 14 February
9am to 4.30 pm

janisj

Darn - I love Russian art - but I don't arrive in London until the 15th. Give your wife my good wishes that her lecture goes well.

Marc_David_Miller

You'll miss out on presentations by people who are tops in the Russian art field-Vitaly is one of the best Russian artis, Alla and Natasha are the top scholars (and Natasha is the largest private collector of this art), and of course Dr. Ozerkov is with one of the world's top museums.

The sale will be on the 15th from 2:30 till around 5 if you're around.

There will also be some Russian-focused art events around April 10 in London.

noe847

My daughter and I will be in London a month later. It's too bad, as we would have enjoyed this as well. I was an art history major and her minor is Russian Studies.

Marc_David_Miller

Sotheby's added a brief introduction to the sale at

http://www.sothebys.com/images/home/...207/index.html

[click "Launch Minisite]

I appreciated hearing their connection to the first sale held in Moscow in 1988-it was truly the first of its kind, and I am proud that my family has been involved in both sales.