The auction house “Artembassy” is organizing high-value artwork auction!
The auction exhibition from 15-25.05.2023 will take place at the premises of Rietumu Banka in Vesetas street 7.
Online bidding on website www.artembassy.lv, from 15-25.05.2023 till 21:00, also we accept telphone bidding.
We provide consultations on the items offered in the auction from May 15 to 25 at the premises of Rietumu Bank.
478 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, Aleksanda Belcova, Johans Valters, Jānis Ferdinands Tīdemanis, Ludolfs Liberts, Eduards Kalniņš, Leo Kokle, Leo Svemps, Jānis Pauļuks, Herberts Siliņš and other outstanding Latvian artists. The section of applied arts will be widely represented as well, offering distinguished antiques - jewellery, silver, gold, bronze and porcelain items.
Auction time will be extended by 10 minutes of bid will be received in last 10 minutes
Auction house commission 20%
PDF Catalogue: https://www.artembassy.lv/Katalogs69_web.pdf
| Author | Voldemars Irbe |
| Time period | 20th century 20's |
| Genre | Still life |
| Technique | Cardboard, pastel |
| Size | 20. gs. 20.g. |
| Item location | 6A Ausekla str., Riga, Latvia |
| Price | Sold! |
| Article | 69_A68250 |
| Status | Lot sold |
Voldemars Irbe learned in the school of German crafts society in Riga (1908 – 11, at B. Dzenis, J. Kuga, A. Cimermanis) and studio of J. Madernieks (1911 – 13).
The years of the First World War he spent in cloister (in Riga, Petersburg, Moscow, Suhumi), traveled, he was in Novocherkask, Novorosijsk etc.
About 1919 artist returned to Riga and for a while he worked as a teacher in elementary schools.
V. Irbe took part in exhibitions since 1914. He made self-exhibitions in 1923, 1932, 1934, 1936, and the entire time artist exhibited works in his studio in Riga.
Memorial exhibitions were made in Riga (1968, 1979, 2005).
He was a very prolific artist and he had seen as the first persistent pastel painter in Latvian art.
Since 1940 V. Irbe was a member of Fine arts cooperative.
