Aivazovsky’s “The Survivor” heads to auction at MacDougall’sJune 2, 2016 - 12:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Ivan Aivazovsky’s “The Survivor” (1892) may become one of the most expensive items to be sold at an upcoming auction at MacDougall’s slated for June 8. With a starting price of £450,000–600,000 (around $650,000 – $866.000), “The Survivor” is represented alongside Lado Gudiashvili’s “The Legend of the Founding of Tbilisi (£200,000 to 250,000). The auction offers an opportunity to acquire the only version of Henryk Siemiradzki’s large-scale preparatory studies for his most famous painting – Leading Light of Christianity. Nero’s Torches – with a starting price of £400,000–500,000. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |