MacDougall’s Leads Market in Russian Sales Week, Outselling Three Older Auction Houses

LONDON.- Holding three auctions on 1 and 2 December 2010, MacDougall’s sold Russian paintings, works on paper, icons and works of art for a total of £16.2 million, outselling three older auction houses in Russian art. The biggest sensation of London’s Russian week was The Little Cowboy by Russian-American artist Nikolai Fechin, which sold for £6.96 million (against a pre-sale estimate of £500,000-700,000), the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting by this artist. The successful sale of [...]

MacDougall’s Have the Top Lot of London’s “Russian Week”, Early Masterpiece by Ivan Shishkin

LONDON.- MacDougall’s have the star lot of London’s “Russian Week”. Ivan Shishkin’s early masterpiece, View of Valaam Island, Kukko (est. £900,000–1,200,000) will be on sale at MacDougall’s Russian Art Auction on 2 December. This painting is the most expensive Russian work offered by the four auction houses holding specialist Russian art sales during the first week of December. Shishkin exhibited two versions of the composition at the Imperial Academy of Arts exhibition in 1860, for which he was awarded the [...]

MacDougall’s Announces Top Lots of Its Russian Art Auctions to Be Held in December

LONDON.- MacDougall’s Russian Art Auctions in London on 1-2 December 2010 will present a superb selection of significant works by important Russian artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Natalia Goncharova, Robert Falk, Petr Konchalovsky, Nicholas Roerich, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin and Ivan Aivazovsky. In total the three sales consist of over 600 lots, with a total estimate of over £17 million. Catherine MacDougall, Director, comments: “I believe the current auctions represent Russian art truly well: from Icons to [...]

Sotheby’s Important Russian Art Sale Brings $15 Million, Almost Top Estimate

LONDON.- Sotheby’s Important Russian Art auction, the first of our Summer sales of Russian Art this week, tonight realised a total of £10,448,450 ($15,079,203) almost reaching the pre-sale top estimate (est. £7,730,000-11,320,000). The auction, which was well-attended, established two new artist records and achieved an extremely healthy sell-through rate by value of 81.4%. Jo Vickery, Senior Director and Head of Sotheby’s Russian Art Department, said: “I am delighted by tonight’s solid results which have shown that the Russian art market [...]

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 [...]