People stand near the Alexei Bogoliubov painting “On the Eve of the Celebration, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice”. Sotheby’s autumn 2010 auctions of Russian Art in New York brought a total of $14,397,064. The day began with an inaugural sale of Important Russian Paintings that achieved $10.6 million and set several new auction records. The [...]

Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), “Roses and Apples”. Estimate £100,000-150,000. Sold for £937,250. The mid-season Russian Art Sale took place today at Christie’s and realized £11,935,750 / $17,330,709 / €14,466,129 selling 76% by lot and 90% by value. The sale had a pre-sale estimate of £7 to £10 million. Enthusiasm and excitement for unique objects and paintings [...]

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 [...]

A silver gilt and enamel cigar case, Moscow 1881 showing a photograph of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna with her children is displayed. This afternoon, Russian Art Sales Series concluded bringing a total of £19.3/$31.9 million – near the high estimate (£14,882,080-21,246,220) – and established a healthy sell-through-rate of 74% overall.