AUCTION No. 42. IN RIETUMU CAPITAL CENTER! The auction house “Artembassy” is organizing the biggest artwork auction in the Baltics! The auction will take place quite soon – on November 23 of this year, at 12.00 o’clock at the premises of Rietumu Banka in Vesetas street 7. 334 outstanding works of art that are not available in the art market every day will be offered in this great auction. Participants of the auction will have the possibility to purchase such pearls of Latvian painting as the works of Janis Rozentals, Johans Valters, Jānis Ferdinands Tīdemanis, Ludolfs Liberts, Valdis Kalnroze, Eduards Kalniņš, Leo Kokle, Leo Svemps, Jānis Pauļuks, Herberts Siliņš, Miervaldis Polis and other outstanding Latvian artists. The European and Russian artwork section will feature for offer such names as Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky, Mozus Parparov, Konstantin Ronchevsky, Sergey Chekhov. The section of applied arts will be widely represented as well, offering distinguished antiques - jewellery, silver, gold, bronze and porcelain items. The works put up for auction will be available for viewing from November 11 to 23 at the premises of Rietumu Banka. The auction will provide bidding onsite, bidding online, remote bidding and bidding on the phone. The auction will be broadcasted as online video stream
| Author | Janis Osis |
| Time period | Second half of 20th century |
| Genre | Landscape |
| Technique | Cardboard, oil |
| Size | 49x60 cm |
| Item location | 7 Vesetas str., Riga, Latvia |
| Price | Sold! |
| Article | 42_A31524 |
| Status | Lot sold |
Janis Osis his first skills in art got at his uncle – painter A. Stunda. In 1951 he graduated Latvia Art academy with diploma work “Latvian fishermen”. This work was exhibited in 8th international biennial in Venice (1956) and it’s placed in Tretjakov gallery.
Artist took part in exhibitions since 1951.
Self-exhibitions were made in Krasnojarsk and Tomsk (1971, together with S. Kreics and A. Zviedris), Lielupe (1972), Ventspils (1972, 1978).
J. Osis was a member of Artists Union (since 1956).
Artist worked as a teacher in J. Rozentals Riga School of art.
He was awarded with 3rd premium in competition of art education institutions in Moscow (1950), with silver medal for “The best work of fine arts” and 2nd rank diploma of USSR Art academy (1958).
