Danish Auction House Exhibits Russian Art Treasures in London

Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Fine Art will exhibit the highlights from one of the largest Russian auctions in the history of the auction house at the Royal Danish Embassy in London in connection with Russian Art Week 1-2 June. The auction itself takes place in Copenhagen on the 9th of June.

”It is the third year in a row that we exhibit the highlights from an upcoming auction at the Royal Danish Embassy in London. This time we are presenting beautiful Russian art and antiques from different private collections, including the collection of the Norwegian Commercial Attaché Richard Zeiner-Henriksen. The collection was created while he lived in Saint Petersburg with his family in the 1920s,” says International Sales and Valuations Director Frederik Bruun Rasmussen.

In 1922, Richard and Erica Zeiner-Henriksen settled in an apartment in the Saltykov Palace, which at the end of the 1700s had belonged to Tsaritsa Katharina II the Great and since then lived in by the Saltykov Nobel House. It was in these impressive surroundings that the Zeiner-Henriksen-couple began to collect art and antiques. Their collection of icons, princely portraits, furniture, porcelain, silver and glass represents a large part of Russian history from Ivan IV the Terrible in the 1500s over Tsaritsa Catherine II the Great in the 1700s to the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, in the early 1900s. The collection includes two large church icons from the 1500s with a depiction of the Archangel Saint Mikhail and Christ’s descent from the cross respectively. Both icons are included in the exhibition in London. With an estimated price of DKK 800,00-1,000,000 / € 110,000-135,000 per icon, they are the exhibition’s most valuable art treasure.

Russian Cultural Inheritance

The exhibition in London also contains a large kovsh, which was made in parcel-gilt silver in Moscow in the late 1600s. It was given as a gift from Peter I the Great and Ivan V to the customs officer Grigory Shtchepetov. Included in the exhibition is also the Order of saint Alexander Nevsky, which was awarded to the Russian General Konstantin Klavdievich Maximovich in 1913, as well as a depiction of nomads from 1852 by the artist Alexei Kondratevich Savrasov. Last but not least a series of exquisite work by Fabergé will also be on display, including a table clock, two picture frames and a couple of brooches.

Exhibition and Auction

34 items out of a total of 180 lots from the Russian auction will be exhibited at the Danish Embassy on 1 and 2 June in London during "Russian Art Week" and will subsequently be sold at the summer's international auction in Copenhagen on 9 June.

View all the lots from the exhibition in London

Exhibition in London on the 1 and 2 June between 10 am and 5 pm

The Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane St., Knightsbridge, SW1X 9SR London.

Registration should be made no later than 24 hours in advance to tradelonamb@um.dk. Photo ID is required.

Russian Art Auction in Copenhagen on 9 June at 2 pm

Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Fine Art, Bredgade 33, Copenhagen

View all of the lots from the Russian art auction on 9 June

View the Russian lots from our upcoming online auction 12 June