From November 27 to December 7, Goldens auction house will present a pre-auction exhibition of the 65th auction “Ukrainian Collectible Art”, which will present a unique selection of works by prominent Ukrainian artists of the XIX-XX centuries. Among the works presented are many rare and exclusive paintings, the likes of which rarely appear on the art market.
The collected works cover various schools, styles and periods of Ukrainian art. In particular, the collection includes works by Ivan Kurakh, Oleksa Novakivskyi, Ferenc Seman, Oleh Sokolov, Stepan Kolesnikov, Lubomyr Medvid, Viktor Zaretskyi, Adalbert Erdeli, Ivan Marchuk, Woodon Baklytskyi, Roman Selskyi, Ivan Trush, Nikifor Krynytskyi, Ivan Babii, Tytus Dvornikov, and Oleksiy Shovkunenko.
The Lviv School of Art is represented by the names of Ivan Trush, Oleksa Novakivskyi, Oleh Minko, Liubomyr Medvid, Roman Selskyi, Witold Mnastyrskyi, and Volodymyr Patyk. Their works represent the wide range and originality of their regional art school, which is filled with examples of both realistic and impressionistic painting, as well as works enriched with modernist tendencies and experiments with form, color, and texture.
Works by artists of the Transcarpathian school of painting are also marked with a bright color: a composition by Ferenc Seman, landscapes by Yosyp Bokshai and Fedir Manailo, a portrait of a Hutsul woman by Andriy Kotska.
The creative searches of the Crimean school artists represented in the auction selection – Petro Stolyarenko and Valentyna Tsvetkova – are devoted to light and color. Their works reflect the warm and windy mood of the peninsula’s nature.
The works by Kyiv artists are extremely diverse and reflect the general trends of the cosmopolitan city, where completely different colors, forms and trends have fused together. This diversity can be clearly seen in the works of Vasyl Chegodar, Volodymyr Sydoruk, Mykhailo Huyda, and Oleksiy Shovkunenko.
The auction selection also includes works by prominent Odesa artists Oleg Sokolov and Arkady Sambur. Sokolov’s collage is distinguished by its vivid expressiveness and special attention to the play of volumes, while Sambur’s work is characterized by its picturesqueness and impressionistic sensuality.
A separate core of the selection is a block of classical art represented by the names of Stepan Kolesnikov, Yevhen Bukovetsky, Viktor Zarubin, Titus Dvornikov and Mikhail Alisov, a block of art by emigrant artists – Ivan Kurakh, Ivan Babiy, Isaac Pailes, Manet-Katz – as well as naïve art, which includes works by Nikifor Krynytsky, Maria Primachenko and Marfa Timchenko.
The sculpture in this auction is represented by the names of the first-row ceramist Olga Rapai, the prominent Kyiv sculptor Yuriy Ruban and the emigrant artist and sculptor Manet-Katz.
The top lots of the auction selection are rare and unique works that can adorn the collection of any world museum: Ivan Babii’s Chess Player (1920s), Mykola Glushchenko’s Nude with Flowers from the artist’s most prominent period of the 1970s, Viktor Zaretskyi’s By the Lake (1978), and a rare genre composition by Adalbert Erdeli from the 1930s and 1940s, Autumn Landscape by Yosyp Bokshai (1930), Plein Air Landscape by Ivan Marchuk (2006), Large Scale Plot Composition by Mariia Prymachenko (1991), Sweet Pea by Ivan Trush of the 1920s, and a portrait of Countess. Kvitska by Oleksa Novakivskyi (1907), “Autumn Still Life” by Valentyna Tsvetkova (1970s), “Girl with Cows” by Roman Selskyi (1980s) and “Dandelions” by Ferenc Seman (2003).
The exposition of the auction “Ukrainian Collectible Art” will be open to the public from November 27 to December 07 in the hall of the Goldens auction house, as well as online at www.gs-art.com. For registration and participation in the auction, please call: +38 050 462 95 32 or register online to be able to place online bids yourself.
Opening hours of the exhibition and online auction:
November 27 – December 07, 2024
12:00 – 19:00
Seven days a week.
Admission to the exhibition is free.
The final bidding will begin with the alternate closing of lots – on December 07 (Saturday) at 17:00 online at www.gs-art.com.
Address: Kyiv, 4 Leonid Pervomaisky St.
GOLDENS auction house
+38 050 462 95 32
contact@gs-art.com
Information about the auction house Goldens:
Goldens is a Ukrainian auction house founded in 2004 in Kyiv. It is one of the leading participants of the Ukrainian art market.
Goldens Auction House holds auctions, solo and group exhibitions, advises and forms private collections of collectible art, assists in interior design and gift selection, and participates in charity and partnership projects.
The main area of expertise is Ukrainian collectible art, including classical painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, alternative movements (avant-garde, non-conformism, underground), and contemporary art. In addition, sculpture, park sculpture, graphics, printmaking, art photography, and more.
This week Ukrainian producers have had the opportunity to increase prices for onions, analysts of the EastFruit project report. According to the farmers themselves, they manage to increase prices for this product due to a noticeable increase in demand. At the same time, the supply of quality onions on the market is quite limited, as many farms continue to refrain from selling these products from storage.
It should be noted that the price growth is observed only in the segment of high quality products, when the supply of medium and low quality vegetables has noticeably decreased. Today, Ukrainian farms offer quality onions for sale in the range of 12-17 UAH/kg ($0.29-0.41/kg), which is on average 35% more expensive than at the end of last week.
Thus, currently onion prices in Ukraine already exceed last year’s figures for the same period by an average of 16%. But, market analysts note that this situation is somewhat artificial and is due to the fact that many farms simply refuse to sell at current prices, thereby creating an even more significant shortage of these vegetables in the market.
If we compare the situation on the onion market with other countries of the project monitoring region, then by the end of this week this vegetable in Ukraine may lead the rating with the highest prices. According to experts, if this trend on the market strengthens, import of onions to Ukraine in the current season may start earlier than traditional terms.
You can get more detailed information about the market development of onions and other horticultural products in Ukraine by subscribing to the operative analytical weekly – EastFruit Ukraine Weekly Pro. Detailed information about the product can be found here.
The Ukrainian soybean market is showing outstanding results – exports since the beginning of 2024-2025 marketing year (July-June) amounted to 445 thsd tonnes, which creates preconditions for a new record, according to the analytical cooperative “Start”, created within the framework of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council.
The analysts emphasized that despite the pace of exports, the Ukrainian market depends on global trends, such as fluctuations in prices for American and Brazilian soybeans.
“Ukrainian soybeans are usually sold at a discount compared to US soybeans, which is about $5-7 per ton. However, now the price of US soybeans is almost equal to the Ukrainian one, which is a favorable signal for domestic exporters. Negative trends in the physical markets, in particular, the fall in the price of soybeans in Chicago, have not yet affected our sales volumes,” the experts said.
They pointed out that seasonal trends indicate a possible increase in soybean prices in December-March, which is traditionally an active period for trade. Prices for soybeans will gradually rise to $420-440 per ton, which is $20-30 more than the current figures, according to Pusk.
“December is always active for the market due to the preparation for the Christmas holidays. Processing companies will increase purchases of soybeans, as most of them have covered their needs only for the first half of December. This creates high demand, which, in turn, will contribute to the price increase,” the experts explained and recommended producers who have the opportunity to postpone sales until February-March to maximize the benefits.
On the domestic market, prices for soybean meal remain low, which limits the ability of processors to set high purchase prices. So far, they are buying soybeans for 17.3-17.5 thousand UAH/t. However, the correlation between the price of soybeans and meal gives us hope for the situation on the Ukrainian market to level off in the coming months, Pusk summarized.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has launched an investigation into the reasons for the increase in prices for chicken eggs in October 2024, the agency’s press service reports.
According to the regulator’s website, the AMCU has already sent requests for information directly to chicken egg producers, their sellers, and feed producers, whose cost is one of the main components of the cost of chicken eggs.
The regulator reminded that this is not the first time it has responded to the situation with rising egg prices. Thus, in October 2022, a study was launched to investigate the reasons for the increase in prices for chicken eggs in domestic retail chains. The study collected and analyzed information from market participants at each of the stages of the product’s circulation from the producer to the end consumer.
The AMCU also noted that it has expanded the scope of the study on this group of goods, which was launched in September-October 2022, and extended it until October 2024.
“After receiving responses from market participants and further analysis of all factors influencing the pricing behavior of business entities at each of the links in the commodity circulation, final conclusions will be formed on the presence or absence of signs of violation of the legislation on the protection of economic competition in the actions of the participants in the commodity market involved,” the AMCU summarized.
As reported, in October, Ukraine set record high prices for chicken eggs, which exceeded the threshold of 60 UAH per dozen. The Union of Poultry Breeders of Ukraine explained this by the delayed reaction of poultry farmers who worked at a loss in the summer of 2024, while the cost of feed and electricity has risen significantly and the industry cannot work at a loss anymore.
Agro-Region has reduced the cost of grain and oilseeds transportation by up to 30% by creating its own fleet of 40 grain carriers, the company’s press service reported on its Facebook page.
“As of today, 58 thousand tons of grains and oilseeds have been exported, with the balance for export of more than 60 thousand tons, including 30 thousand tons of corn and wheat,” said Oleksandr Tymoshenko, commercial director of the agricultural holding, adding that sunflower and rapeseed were the most profitable in the 2024 season due to higher prices than a year earlier.
Agro-Region pointed out that the main volumes of agricultural products are transported by rail and road to ports, and then the grain is exported by sea. Several factors contributed to the reduction in transportation costs, including the company’s own grain carrier fleet, which guarantees flexibility in planning and a fixed cost of transportation.
“Agro-Region received 25 hopper cars as part of the USAID Economic Support for Ukraine grant program. After that, it raised additional funds and invested them in an additional 15 railcars.
Agro-Region owns a land bank of 39 thousand hectares in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyi regions. It specializes in crop production. It consists of 11 companies organized into four crop production clusters. It has two elevators – Boryspil elevator with a capacity of 73 thousand tons and Miropil elevator with a capacity of 52 thousand tons.
Agro-Region’s annual harvest of grains and oilseeds is up to 200 thousand tons.
In April 2021, the Swedish company Lobiu Sala AB, owned by the former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Aivaras Abromavičius, received permission from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to buy the Swedish Agro Region Stockholm Holding, which manages the Agro-Region group of companies in Ukraine.
Agrane Agro Holding has modernized the grain receiving infrastructure at the Service Grain elevator complex (Odesa region) and laid a 200-meter railway line to it, the group’s press service reports.
According to the report, the newly laid railway line allows the company to ship up to 30 cars per day, which reduces the cost and speeds up the delivery of grain to ports.
In addition, Service Grain has equipped three hubs for receiving grain from trucks, including heavy trucks (up to 20 m long). With a total capacity of 2,000 tons, the elevator complex is ready to receive grain up to 1,700 tons per day.
According to the agroholding, the storage capacity of the complex, which is equipped with equipment from the domestic manufacturer KMZ Industries, has already reached 100 thousand tons.
“Thanks to the introduction of modern technologies, the elevator can simultaneously accept and ship both large and small batches of grain in a short time,” Agrane summarized.
“Agrain is engaged in the cultivation and storage of grains and oilseeds, as well as livestock farming. Before the full-scale Russian invasion, the agricultural holding included 11 agricultural enterprises. It cultivated about 110,000 hectares in Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, and Cherkasy regions.
The holding is owned by SAS Investcompagnie (France).
