Auction No. 51 Rietumu The auction house “Artembassy” is organizing the biggest artwork auction in the Baltics! The auction will take place on May 22. of 2021., at 12.00 o’clock at the premises of Rietumu Banka in Vesetas street 7. Online bidding will be organized online on website www.artembassy.lv, with ending on May 22, from 12:00, also we accept telphone bidding. On-site bidding will be offered by invitation, subject to national restrictions The auction will be broadcasted as online video stream. We provide consultations on the items offered in the auction from May 10 to 22 at the premises of Rietumu Bank. 345 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. Pdf. Catalogue: https://www.artembassy.lv/I_K_51_web3.pdf
| Author | Aleksandra Belcova |
| Time period | Second half of 20th century |
| Genre | Figural composition |
| Technique | Paper, watercolor |
| Size | 27.3x20.5 cm |
| Item location | 7 Vesetas str., Riga, Latvia |
| Price | Sold! |
| Article | 51_A47091 |
| Status | Lot sold |
Studied at the Art School in Penza (1912-1917), State Free Art Workshops in Petrograd with N. Altman (1918-1919).
Together with her husband Romans Suta, she moved to Latvia in 1919. She was a member of the Riga Artists’ Group (1920 - 1924) and participated in the group exhibitions (1920, 1923). During this time, she created caricatures in the political pages HoHo and Hallo. She took part also in the exhibitions of Riga Graphic Artists’ Association and the Association "Zaļā vārna" (1927-31). She worked in oil, water colors, graphic arts and produced paintings on chinaware at the Baltars workshop in 1924 - 1928.
Solo exhibitions - in Riga (1928, together with R.Suta, 1962 ,1972), Tukums (1963), Leningrad (1972/73), Liepaja (1974), Jurmala (1977). Painted mostly portraits and still life’s. One of the most exquisite representatives of cubism in Latvian painting of the first decade of the 20th century, who later turned to realism.
