The Russians are coming. The multi-million pound herd of buyers who stampede around the world in pursuit of the art market’s “next big thing” is rushing this weekend to buy into what they hope will be the latest bubble: Russian art. Natalia Goncharova, who died in 1962, was already the highest selling female artist at [...]

Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist Composition from 1916 sold for $60,002,500, not only a record for the artist, but a record for any Russian work of art ever sold at auction. Regarded as an icon of Russian art and a paradigmatic example of the 20th century avant-garde, the masterwork was executed in 1916, the same year that [...]

“Dancer in Repose’’ (1879) by Edgar Degas Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis bought this painting at Sotheby’s in London in 1999 for $27.9 million. This year they were given a guaranteed price that experts say is over $40 million by Sotheby’s.