OREANDA-NEWS The painting of Nicholas Roerich Takla-Makan" was put up for auction with a starting price of one ruble, according to the website of the auction house "Litfond".

The leading bid for June 13 is three million rubles.

This is a sketch that the artist made during the Central Asian Expedition (1923-1928). The team passed the section along the borders of the Taklamakan desert from the Sanju Pass to the city of Khotan in late 1925 — early 1926.

Nicholas Roerich is also known as a set designer, philosopher, mystic, archaeologist and traveler. He painted about seven thousand canvases. He was the director of the school of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, was at the head of the art association "World of Art". In 1917 he emigrated. In addition to the Central Asian, he also participated in the Manchurian expedition.

Earlier it was reported that in France, at the request of Parisians, an exhibition about the Russian choreographer Yuri Grigorovich was extended.