HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE RUSSIAN COLLECTION: RELIGIOUS IMAGES

Lebrecht represents a unique collection of religious and biblical themed paintings from Russian museums and art galleries (RAO). The images cover classic Russian icons from the early Middle Ages through to modern interpretations of famous Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments. Subjects painted include the Creation, Noah’s Ark, Hagar and Ishmael, Moses and the Ten Commandments, Madonna and child and the life of Jesus. Artists represented include Vrubel, Brueghel, Goncharova, Salini, Leyden, Gentileschi, Mucha, Brovikovsky, Repin. To view a lightbox of these fascinating images, please click on the picture below:

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Highlights from the Russian Collection: The performing arts – theatre, circus and opera

The Russian Collection includes a fabulous resource of paintings, posters and photographs of the Russian theatre, circus and opera. Images include avant-garde producers such as Meyerhold, cabaret actresses in the Moulin Rouge and the famous Russian choreographer Marius Petipa as a young man in role. The collection holds set and costume designs for Dostoevesky’s The House of the Dead, Berthold Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera and Katerina Izmailova, an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich. Russian Shakespeare productions are represented in the collection through paintings and costume designs for plays such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. There are also stunning examples of tsarist theatre programmes. To see a selection of images, please click on the picture below:

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RUSSIAN COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS – AUTHORS AND LITERATURE

Our new Russian collection holds hundreds of paintings and photographs of authors and their works – a perfect complement to Author Pictures at Lebrecht (www.authorpictures.co.uk).

The majority of the authors are Russian and include Alexander Blok, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Sholokhov, Maxim Gorky, Gogol, Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy. There are also a number of paintings of famous European authors such as Goethe, Heine, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Moliere, Guillaume Apollinaire and Diderot. Poets featured in the collection include Anna Akhmatova , Mikhail Lermontov, Paul Verlaine and Adam Mickiewicz.

Famous scenes from novels and illustrations to accompany poems range from Pushkin’s Dubrovsky and The Copper Rider, Emil Zola’s Nana and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Vintage photographs of these writers summon up a lost world, from Ivan Bunin with friends in Grasse in France enjoying a good meal to Alexander Kuprin with his wife, daughter and her dolls’ house in 1913. To view a selection of images, please click on the picture below:

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW RUSSIAN COLLECTION AT LEBRECHT – AVANT-GARDE ART

Lebrecht represents a unique collection of over 10,000 paintings from Russian museums and galleries (RAO). Included amongst this vast collection are many examples of Russian avant-garde artwork dating from the early 20th century and covering schools of art such as Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist, Abstract, Neo-Primitivist. Amongst the artists included are the founder of constructivism, Rodchenko and his wife Stepanova, and Kandinsky, an extremely important figure in the history of abstract art. Other artists represented include Olga Rosanova, Malevich, Nathan Altman, Annenkov, Redko, Puni, Pestel. The range of the collection is breathtaking and researchers are sure to find many unusual and rarely-seen paintings. To see a selection of these pictures, please click on the image below:

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Russian Collection highlights – POLITICAL POSTERS & ADVERTISING

Bold graphic posters have always been an important part of Russian visual life.  Beautifully-designed posters exhort people to come to a ball, to support the war effort, to assist the poor and needy, to defeat  the Germans during WWII and the neighbouring countries during the Soviet era.  Adverts extol the virtues of cocoa, smoking, new factories, breweries, films, exhibitions and theatre performances. Health posters raise awareness of the effects of alcohol and the fight against tuberculosis. These fascinating works of art cover all the minutiae of social and political life in pre and post Revolutionary times. Artists include Popov, Malevich, Gerardov, Zakharov, Golovanov, Vatalina.  To view a selection of pictures, please click on the image below:

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Christmas Gifts from Lebrecht: Iconic signed photographs by Don Hunstein

Exclusive signed 5.5″ x 8″ photos by iconic American rock photographer Don Hunstein, printed on archival art paper and priced just £99 each, plus £5.50 p & p in UK (£10 outside the UK).

The photos on offer are:

Bob Dylan at Carnegie Hall, October 1963

Glenn Gould in Canada 1970

Times Square, New York in the rain, 1961 (as used on the cover of Dylan’s autobiography ‘Chronicles’ Vol I)

To order your prints, please email pictures@lebrecht.co.uk or call 020 7625 5341.

Russian Collection Highlights – MUSIC

Lebrecht Music & Arts now offers over 10,000 fine art images from Russian Museums.

The classical music paintings are quite unique: they include portraits of the great Russian composers never published in the UK before: Ippolitov-Ivanov , Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Cui, Dargomyzhsky, Medtner, Khachaturian . Fabulous stage sets for operas such as Stravinsky’s ‘Mavra’, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Sadko’, Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ , Gounod’s ‘Faust’. Plus drawings and paintings of ballet dancers including work by Edgar Degas.

Portrait of the composer Mily A. Balakirev

Portrait of the composer Sergei Prokofiev

Portrait of the composer César Antonovich Cui

Portrait of the composer Michail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Portrait of the composer Nikolai Medtner

Portrait of the composer Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky

At the philharmonic concert by Samokhvalov, Alexander Nikolayevich

Portrait of the composer Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Portrait of the composer Aram Khachaturian

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CHRISTMAS PICS from LEBRECHT

Now online at Lebrecht, a fantastic selection of seasonal imagery, from Nativity scenes to snowy, winter landscapes and portraits of the popular folk hero, Father Christmas or Saint Nicholas, who graces celebrations across the globe, from the French Noel to the German Weihnachten. To see a selection of charming Xmas-related images, please click on the image below:

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PREVIEW MUSIC PICS from LEBRECHT: LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL, 13-22 November 2009

Now online at Lebrecht, portraits and performance shots of musicians performing at this year’s jazz festival. For a full selection, please search directly on www.lebrecht.co.uk.

Zoe Rahman, British jazz composer and pianist

Sonny Rollins, American tenor saxophonist

Roberto Fonseca, Cuban pianist

John Hegley, English poet and performer

Tomasz Stanko, Polish jazz trumpet player

Chick Corea, American jazz pianist and keyboardist

Stanley Clarke, American jazz guitarist

Madeleine Peyroux, American singer

Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, British jazz performers

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, American jazz group

Carla Bley, American jazz pianist and composer

Stefano Bollani, Italian jazz pianist

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Lebrecht at Picturehouse, New York, 2009

Lebrecht enjoyed another successful trip to Picturehouse in New York this autumn. As usual, Picturehouse New York provided a fantastic opportunity to present the collection to new picture researchers and chat about developments in the industry. We announced our latest acquisition – a unique collection of over 10,000 fine art images from Russian museums and galleries – marking our diversification into art pictures. The announcement garnered a lot of interest and we hope that this new material marks the start of a great new stage in our ever-expanding collection.

The trip to New York also allowed us to catch up with some of our favourite American clients. We were especially pleased to see our image of Bernard Haitink on proud display outside the Lincoln Center, advertising a recent London Symphony Orchestra performance at the Avery Fisher Hall.

Thanks to everyone who visited our stand and took the time to catch up. We look forward to seeing you again at next year’s Picturehouse.

Lebrecht Music & Arts

Lebrecht Music & Arts

Lebrecht Music & Arts

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