Treasures of Kazakhstan were exhibited at Christie's

50 paintings of Russian and Kazakh artists from the Kasteev Museum and 25 paintings from the private collection of businessman Nurlan Smagulov were presented. For only the first two days of the exhibition pictures were seen by more than a thousand people.

An interesting fact is that Christie's opens the exhibition season in September. To see the beginning of the season aesthetes of art are going to London from around the world. After all, at Christie's unthinkable deal are committed: buying and selling of the works of art for the fabulous price.

According to Eurogates, annual turnover of the auction house is almost 2.5 billion pounds! And the first thing which true connoisseurs of art saw in the most prestigious European art site was "Treasures of Kazakhstan." Among them - paintings by Pavel Filonov, Olga Rozanova, Petr Konchalovsky, Zinaida Serebryakova, Salihitdina Aytabaeva, Sergey Kalmykov, Janat Shardenov, Kenzhebaya Duysenbaeva etc.

This event couldn't be ignored by representatives of mass media. Our journalists have been able to visit the exposition thanks to the national airline AirAstana. It's management is always happy to assist in press tours organizing. By the way, national airline makes two direct flights a week in London. Seven hours of flight - and you are on the banks of the Thames.

There were a lot of journalists at the exhibition opening, so there were a lot of different questions for organizers. For example, "How did such idea come up?" This question was answered by the head of the Christie's International Department of Russian Art Alexei Tiesenhausen:

- I often visit Kazakhstan because my wife is Kazakh. One day I visited Kasteev Museum. I was so impressed with the power and brilliance of the paintings, so the idea to show them in London came up and never left my head. I knew how difficult it is to work with state agencies (especially the former Soviet Union state agencies), but I contacted museum management and told them my proposal. This proposal was treated with the understanding, also wide support was provided. Negotiations to find sponsors and organizational issues have taken quite a long time, but the results exceeded all expectations. Kazakh masterpieces created a splash among the London public!

To learn more go to http://www.eurogates.nl/news/a/3451/treasures-kazakhstan-christies/