Sotheby’s New York and London November Sales of Russian Art Realise $30.4 Million

LONDON.- The top-selling lot of the November Sales of Russian Art in London was Alexander Yakovlev’s 1926 oil on canvas The Kuli-Kuta Dance, Niamey, which sold for the within-estimate sum of £937,250 (Est. £800,000-1,000,000) Two new artist records established for Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel with The Assyrian (lot 23, est. £30,000-50,000) and Igor Emmanuiovich Grabar with Delphiniums (lot 25, est. £150,000-200,000), each of which sold for the sum £181,250. The top-selling lot of the November Sales of Russian Art in London [...]

Sotheby’s to Exhibit in Moscow Highlights from Its London Sales

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will exhibit highlights from its forthcoming June Sales in London of Russian Art and Impressionist & Modern Art at The State Historical Museum on Red Square in Moscow from Wednesday, May 19 to Friday, May 21, 2010. The exhibition will feature 15 important and rare paintings by some of Russia’s greatest artists, including Yuri Annenkov, Alexander Yakovlev, Ivan Shishkin and Marie Vassilieff, 32 exceptional Fabergé objects, and five outstanding works of Impressionist & Modern art [...]