Main image: Cheese, 2008, ROITBURD ALEXANDER (1961-2021)

From May 27 to June 3, 2022 in the hall of the auction house GOLDENS will be a charity auction "ART CAN HELP". The main purpose of the online auction is to raise funds to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine in partnership with the fund of competent assistance to the army "Come back alive".

In parallel with the online auction in the hall of the auction house will be preview of lots (daily from 11:00 to 18:00) at Kyiv, st. Leonida Pervomaiskoho, 4. During the preview, everyone can get acquainted with the lots of the auction and place a bet on their favorite lots directly in the exhibition hall or on the auction house's website www.gs-art.com.

The idea of ​​the charity auction is to draw the attention of the general public to Ukrainian art - professional, modern and competitive in the world market. And the main goal was to support our soldiers who are defending the country from the enemy. ART CAN HELP - as the main thesis of the charity auction, which should prove our conviction that even in wartime art stands side by side with the country and the people, because it forms the cultural history of Ukraine and signs of national identity.

The collection of the auction consists of 27 works by famous Ukrainian artists from private collections and works that were donated by the authors to support the Ukrainian army.

Among the outstanding lots of the selection are "Garden of Temptation" from a rare series of still lifes by Ivan Marchuk; "Guard", who became a symbol of Ukrainian steadfastness, Lyubov Panchenko; valuable work of the "Klimt period" by Victor Zaretsky "I walk in the meadow, I lead the horse"; the work of the most famous primitive of Ukraine Maria Primachenko "Blue-eyed Flowers"; night Carpathian landscape by the master of Ukrainian non-figurative landscape Anatoliy Kryvolap; Roman Minin's moving kinetic object "Peaceful Atom"; exquisite work from the cycle "Tablecloths" by Pavel Makov. Among other well-known names of the auction are Oleg Tistol, Alexander Roitburd, Alla Gorskaya, Yuri Koval and Zakentiy Gorobyov, Yuri Solomko, Andriy Kotska, Mykola Matsenko, Andriy Bludov, Rafael Bagautdinov.

The Sculpture block is also presented at this auction by well-known authors: Yuriy Ruban, Oleksandr Sukholit, Nazar Bilyk, Volodymyr Zhuravel, Yegor and Nikita Zigura, Andriy Lypovka.

Bidding will continue in the online bidding format on the website of the auction house Goldens (www.gs-art.com) for seven days (27/05 - 03/06). The final auction will be held on June 3 from 17:00 to 18:00 online. Participation in the auction is subject to prior registration.

50% of the funds withdrawn from the auction will be directed to the fund of competent assistance of the army "Come back alive". Separately raised funds from the sale of three lots provided by the famous collector Yuri Kohutyak (works by Alexander Roitburd, Yuri Solomko, Andrei Bludov) will be transferred to the Charitable Foundation "Help Center" to equip the Central Clinical Hospital.

Exhibition schedule:
27/05 - 3/06 without days off
11:00 - 18:00
free entrance

Auction schedule:
27/05 - 03/06 online bidding
03/06 - 17: 00-18: 00 final bidding