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Sotheby’s relive Gagarin’s triumph 50 years on


ON April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted out of the earth’s atmosphere in the Vostok 3KA-3 Space Capsule, becoming the first man to travel into space. On April 12, exactly 50 years on,


Sotheby’s New York will offer the Vostok 3KA-2, the final test capsule used before Gagarin’s historic mission in what would later be known as Vostok 1. Vostok was the first type of


spacecraft built by the Soviet Union to put a human in space, and was


conceived and overseen by the architect of the Soviet Space Program, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. Despite a successful mission on


March 9, 1961, Korolev insisted on one last test. On March 25 the 3KA- 2 was sent into space carrying the life-size cosmonaut mannequin, Ivan Ivanovich, and a dog, Zvezdochka. It safely completed the mission, orbiting once before the capsule reentered the earth’s atmosphere landing near the city of Izhevsk. “Not only are there no other


examples outside Russia of the world’s first spacecraft, this capsule was pivotal in space history as providing the green light for Gagarin’s spectacular achievement,” commented David Redden, head of Sotheby’s special projects department. The space capsule is currently on


public view in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries with a broad estimate of $2m-10m. The Vostok 3KA-3 Space Capsule


is in the RKK Energiya Museum near Moscow.


Profitable journey from Suffolk to Sydney


A PICTURE discovered in a Suffolk village has sold for Aus$132,000 (£85,715) in Bonhams’ saleroom in Sydney, Australia. The small oil painting by


contemporary Australian artist Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart (b.1921), entitled Athenian Suburb, was uncovered during a routine valuation at a rural cottage near Bury St Edmunds. The decision was taken to fly the painting half way round the world to be sold in the best possible venue. The work was spotted by Bonhams


picture specialist Daniel Wright who said: “I am delighted with the significant sum fetched for the painting. This exemplifies the importance of selling art and antiques in the most suitable global context. “The Australian art market is currently


burgeoning and being able to send the work for sale in Sydney was a crucial factor in achieving such an exceptional result.” Born in Adelaide, Jeffrey Smart is


one of Australia’s foremost living artists and has visited East Anglia on several occasions. He trained at the South Australian School of Art and Crafts before a brief spell as an art teacher. Despite having always favoured a


Above: the Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule – estimated at $2m-10m at Sotheby’s New York.


Christchurch dealer fights to save his stock


REPORTS from Christchurch in New Zealand reveal that an antiques dealer is appealing for help to retrieve his stock before the army demolishes his damaged shop. Deric Blackler has already managed


to remove a small number of objects from Portobello Antiques in the city and reckons that 80 per cent of his remaining stock is salvagable. However, the shop is located inside


Above: Athenian Suburb by Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart, which took Aus132,000 (£85,715) at Bonhams in Sydney on November 14. It came from a home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk after being bought from the artist in Rome in 1964.


career in architecture, his desire to paint grew and in 1948 he travelled around Europe and received further artistic training from Fernand Leger in Paris. He developed his trademark style – a brutal hyperrealism which usually took urban environments as the subject, typically airports, factories and petrol stations. By 1964 Smart’s reputation was


blossoming and Italy was becoming his permanent home. It was in this year


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in Rome that he became good friends with Desmond Gregory, an English academic and art collector who bought the painting from Smart for the then not inconsiderable sum of £65. The sale took place on November 14,


but the story behind the consignment has only recently emerged. n See next week’s ATG for a major


the city’s protective cordon, which mean he must gain official permission before being allowed back inside. Reports also say that he has already


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