Painting by Soviet artist Czeslaw Znamierowski sells in China for $120,000
Czeslaw Znamierowski, a socialist-realism painter from the past is becoming famous in the 21 century. His artwork just sold for $120,000 in China, setting a record for the artist. Asian art auctions, galleries, and collectors are buying his works.
- (1888PressRelease) March 24, 2021 - On March 12, 2021 Sina News, China (sina.com.cn) reported that through a private sale an American art foundation purchased a 1964 painting called “River” by Czeslaw Znamierowski for $120,000 in Shanghai, China.
Czeslaw Viktorovich Znamierowski (1890-1977) was a famous Soviet painter in Soviet Union but when it collapsed in the 1990s Znamierowski was almost completely forgotten. Recently however his paintings were discovered by several major art foundations and collectors that started actively buying Znamierowski’s art at auctions and galleries. Very quickly the value of his paintings grew from few hundreds to tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In 2018 one of Znamierowski’s small landscape paintings sold for almost $70,000 (58,000 euro) at a German auction to an Israeli buyer, setting a record at that time. Now it is reported that through a private sale an American art foundation purchased a 1964 painting called “River” by Czeslaw Znamierowski for $120,000 in Shanghai, setting is a new personal record for this Soviet artist.
Znamierowski was participated in the Russian Revolution of 1917 during which he was arrested and was almost executed. He used his art to promote equality among the workers and rose to a position of the Secretary of the Public Committee of the Peasants. Later he devoted all his time to art and became of the most famous socialist-realism artists not just in the Soviet Union but all over the world. His artworks were sold to state museums, galleries as well as private collections of USA, Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain, Sweden and many other countries.
Before 1990s he was regularly mentioned in art books, magazines, newspapers and was exhibited in many national galleries such as the famous Tretyakov Gallery. Now all this forgotten historic information is being revisited and studied by serious art institutions and collectors in Russia, America and EU. People are realizing the valuable of this artist really is which is driving up prices on Znamierowski’s art.
Sources:
https://k.sina.com.cn/article_6995119951_1a0f10f4f00100v5fu.html
https://www.toutiao.com/i6938431596122898982/
http://www.cmoney.tw/notes/note-detail.aspx?nid=254210
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