Russian Icons. Russian Icon Gallery




 

 

 

 

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the Russian Icon Gallery!


Announcement:

For Your convenience, we have created a new category - "Sold", where all sold items will be stored for permanent exposition. Most of the sold icons are already there now.

All other categories will only contain icons available for the purchase (as well as reserved items). We hope You will have enjoyable experience from browsing through our gallery.


   
 

Background

Our family has been collecting and studying Russian icons for more than thirty years. Russian Icon Gallery has a well-formulated concept of operation and acts as a permanent exhibition - sale. Russian Icon Gallery is a family run business, located in Tallinn, Estonia. The gallery has two principal divisions - traditional, - "brick-and-mortar", and an Internet store - this website. All icons are for sale unless marked as sold. Photos of sold icons remain on our website as a long-term exhibit online.


The Collection

The collections in our gallery contain several hundreds of icons, dating from the 16th to the 20th century. In addition to the icons we have a large collection of copper and bronze cast icons and crosses, dating from the 12th to the 20th century. Our collections represent a variety of schools and styles of icon painting from the Imperial Russia.

At our gallery, You can examine and purchase icons of nearly any style: from rural, to strict "Northern", and so-called "school" style, characterized by a very high professional level of painting, with the use of complex techniques and advanced methods of painting. Our gallery also contains icons hand-signed by the painter, which are quite rare.

The collection embodies all the variety of Russian iconography, including icons of many styles - from traditional folk icons to masterpieces of art.


Services

In addition to our primary area of operations, we we also provide the following services:

1. Consultation for both the novice and experienced collectors..

2. Sets with additional in-depth information about the icons

3. Exhibits

4. All spectrum of "Connoisseur-ship" services in the field of Icons, such as systematization, expertise, attribution, etc.

5. Consultation regarding the investment potential of antique icons

6. For receiving more information concerning the above-mentioned services, please contact us.

The list of our customers include collectors and lovers of ancient Russian art from all over the world; museums, churches and galleries.




 
"Saint Archangel Michael"
19th century
   

"St. George the Warrior”
19th century



   
   


"The God Savaof "
     
 


"The Holy Virgin of Kazan"
18th century