An exhibition of art from Kazakhstan is due to open at Christie's in London on 1 September. The works have never been seen outside central Asia before. The above work, Young Kazakhs, was painted during the country's era of Soviet rule.

The artworks are being shown in London while the Kasteev Museum in the Kazakh city of Almaty is undergoing refurbishment. Pieces from Russia also feature among the 75-strong collection.

The exhibition's scope shows how art has developed in Kazakhstan over the past 80 years. During the Stalinist era, only the Socialist Realist style was officially sanctioned.

Olga Rozanova's work Non-Objective Composition was painted around 1910 as the part of the Kasteev Museum's initial acquisitions from galleries including The Hermitage.