Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

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

December 3, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Art Market

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 [...]