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A new work by Latvian landscape painter Edgars Vinters is now available on the online art auction platform Art Platz Auction. In this painting, the artist presents the winter landscape as a living, dynamic space – the tree trunks and branches create a rhythmic movement within the composition, while the snow cover is enlivened by warm ochre and brownish accents.

A new work by Latvian classical painter Kārlis Dobrājs is now available on the Art Platz Auction platform. The artist has also created a series of illustrations for a Latvian folk-tale anthology. These hand-drawn, coloured illustrations are original, one-off works that visually interpret the narratives of Latvian folk tales. The illustration "Cholera in Riga" (Lot 2026/0350) is now open for online bidding.

In February, marking the birthday of Kārlis Dobrājs, a representative of classical Latvian painting, the online auction platform Art Platz Auction presents a special selection featuring two of the artist’s still lifes. The works vividly exemplify his distinctive style – the plastic expressiveness of form, a refined palette, clearly structured composition, and timeless classical subject matter.

A new work by Latvian lyrical landscape painter Edgars Vinters is now available on the online art auction platform Art Platz Auction. The painting captures a mood-rich winter landscape, filled with the crisp air of winter and the play of sunlight. The work "Winter River" (Lot 2026/0349) is now open for online bidding. Exhibition "Time on the Move" by Edgars Vinters is on view at the Art Platz Gallery until 25 April.

A new work by aquarelle painter Zigmunds Šņore is now available on the Art Platz Auction platform – an atmospherically nuanced evening landscape in which the artist conveys the calm and introspection of dusk. Through transparently applied layers of muted greens, ochres, and greyish tones, softly blurred tree canopies and vertical accents emerge, forming a harmonious rhythmic composition.

A new work by watercolour artist Zigmunds Šņore is now available on the Art Platz Auction platform. The piece is a quiet, subtly nuanced mood landscape that captures the fragile transitional moment of nature’s awakening.

Art Platz Auction Highlights for January’s selection presents monumental visions of the 1950s, reflecting the era’s visual strength and ideological context. The selection includes an early large-format work by Māra Kažociņa, inspired by the “severe style,” in which robust forms convey the intensity of physical labour. Also featured is a monumental horse-themed composition by Jānis Rikmanis

A new work by aquarellist Zigmunds Šņore is now available on the online art auction platform Art Platz Auction. In this mood landscape, the author captures the sea in a state of transition between tension and calm. Softly flowing greys, blues, and muted ochre tones evoke associations with the gradual subsiding of waves after a storm.

Art Platz Auction is an online art auction platform offering the opportunity to acquire outstanding works by both classical and contemporary artists. The Auction Highlights 2025 selection brings together artworks now held in private collections.

Art Platz Auction Highlights for the December selection presents works inspired by the mood of winter. Here, winter is revealed both as a landscape and as a sensation.