The auction house “Artembassy” is organizing the biggest artwork auction in the Baltics! The auction will take place quite soon – on May 19 of this year, at 12.00 o’clock at the premises of Rietumu Banka in Vesetas street 7. 340 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 Jānis Rozentāls, Johans Valters, Voldemārs Irbe, Aleksandrs Rūdolfs Drēviņš, Jānis Ferdinands Tīdemanis, Ludolfs Liberts, Valdis Kalnroze, Eduards Kalniņš, Leo Kokle, Aleksandra Beļcova, Jānis Pauļuks, Herberts Siliņš, Maija Tabaka and other outstanding Latvian artists. The European and Russian artwork section will feature for offer such names as Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki , Aleksander Nicholas Borzov, Wladimir Leonidovich Muravjoff, Sergei Vinogradov, Stanislav, Yulianovich Zhukovsky and Chirkov Alexander. 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 May 7 to 19 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 | Leo Mihelsons |
| Time period | Beginning of 20th century |
| Genre | Landscape |
| Technique | Oil, wood |
| Size | 45x58.5 cm |
| Item location | 7 Vesetas str., Riga, Latvia |
| Price | € 1800 |
| Article | 32_A21576 |
| Status | Lot available for bidding |
Michelson was born in Riga, Latvia. He attended the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, and then the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 forced Michelson to leave Russia for Munich, Germany, where he participated in the beginnings of German Expressionism.
By 1920 Michelson was living in Paris and had established an international reputation for his paintings, prints, and sculptures. As a prominent member of the Paris School his works were shown in major exhibits throughout Western Europe, the Soviet Union, and the United States. After the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany in 1939, Michelson fled to New York City, where he spent the rest of his life.
Michelson is described as an "eternal emigrant, eternal student" because he was always studying and experimenting with new styles. Michelson actually carried crayons with him so he could sketch where ever he was. Art historians have compared Michelson to both Chagall and Picasso, but it was Titian who Michelson said was his inspiration.
Michelson painted over 1,000 paintings. His widow, Janine, selected Marshall, Texas, as the permanent home for her late husband's works in what is known as the Michelson Museum of Art.
