SOTHEBY'S DEDICATED SALES OF RUSSIAN ART SINCE 2007
$850 millionCombined auction total
3,900Participants
1,700Buyers
CLIENTS FROM RUSSIA AND THE CIS
Since 2007
Have acquired over $2.8 billion of art across Sotheby's global salerooms Active in 50 collecting categories
2,500Bidders
680Average number of participants
in our sales each year
Areas in which they are most active (aside from Russian art sales):
Impressionist and Modern Art
Contemporary Art
Old Masters
Jewellery
19th century paintings
Continental Furniture
Areas of increasing interest in recent years
Watches
Prints
20th Century Design
SOTHEBY'S LEADS THE RUSSIAN ART MARKET
$60 million: Auction Record for any Russian Work of Art, set by Malevich's 'Suprematist composition' Sotheby's New York Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, November 2008
£25.7 million: Auction Record for any sale dedicated to Russian Art Sotheby's London, November 2007
TOP PICTURES SOLD IN DEDICATED SALES OF RUSSIAN ART
1NATALIA GONCHAROVA
Street In Moscow (1909)
New York 1 November 2011
2NATALIA GONCHAROVA
Bluebells
London 26 November 2007
3ZINAIDA SEREBRIAKOVA
Study of a Sleeping Girl (1923)
London 2 June 2015
4ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Construction No.95 (1919)
London 29 November 2016
5BORIS KUSTODIEV
The Village Fair (1920)
London 8 June 2009
RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART, FABERGÉ AND ICONS HIGHLIGHTS
1A magnificent and highly important diamond-set Badge of the Order of St. Andrew (c.1800)
London 12 June 2008
2A magnificent pair of Imperial porcelain palace vases, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory (1848)
London 10 June 2009
3A rare Fabergé enamel desk clock.
From the collection of Lily & Edmond J. Safra (c. 1899-1903)
New York 3 November 2005
4A fine and rare Fabergé icon of Christ Pantocrator
(c. 1900)
New York 15 April 2008
5A Russian gilded silver and champlevé enamel tea and coffee set Ovchinnikov (c. 1890-1900)
New York April 2006
SOTHEBY'S AND RUSSIA: STANDOUT MOMENTSFEBRUARY 2007
Sotheby's stages London's first sale dedicated to Modern and Contemporary Russian Art. This is the first sale of its kind held by Sotheby's since the inaugural Moscow sale in July 1988 - the first international auction held in the Soviet Union. It follows the private sale in 2004 of the Forbes collection of Fabergé, including nine Imperial Easter Eggs, to the Russian industrialist Mr Victor Vekselberg.
MAY 2007
Sotheby's becomes the first international auction house to open an office in Moscow.
MAY 2007
Marc Chagall's Le grand cirque (1956) achieves $13.8 million in Sotheby's New York Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale - the most valuable work by the artist sold at auction since 1990.
SEPTEMBER 2007
Ahead of the scheduled auction of the personal collection of two of Russia's greatest musicians, Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, the collection is acquired privately in its entirely for an undisclosed sum by the prominent Russian businessman, Alisher Usmanov. One of the most important collections of Russian art in private hands, the collection was expected to make £13-20 million ($26-40 million) at Sotheby's sale.
NOVEMBER 2007
Sotheby's stages the first ever Evening Auction of Russian Art. The auction makes £25.7 million ($53.1 million), an auction record for any sale dedicated to Russian art.
NOVEMBER 2008
Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition (1916) sells for $60 million at Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York - an auction record for any Russian work of art.
NOVEMBER 2009
Wassily Kandinsky's Krass und mild (1932) sells for $10.6 million at Sotheby's New York Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale - the most valuable work by the artist sold by Sotheby's since 1990.
NOVEMBER 2009
The personal collection of rare objects and Fabergé which belonged to Her Imperial Highness Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess Vladimir, and her husband, His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, raises £7 million ($11.6 million) at auction in London with every single lot sold. Deposited at the Swedish Legation in November 1918, the trove was forgotten until its discovery in 2009.
APRIL 2011
50 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into outer space, the Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule, that paved the way for his historic mission, sells for $2.9 million in New York to Russian Businessman, Evgeny Yurchenko.
NOVEMBER 2011
Over 130 works by Alexander Benois, from the collection of the artist's family, are 100% sold, achieving a total of £2 million ($3.1 million) in London. Including ballet, opera set and costume designs, this was the largest collection of works by Benois to come to auction in recent history.
NOVEMBER 2012
The working archive of the most important Russian director of modern times, Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), is acquired by Russia's Ivanovo region for £1.5 million ($2.4 million). The archive, pertaining to the years 1967-1986, shed new light on the film-making techniques, private life and artistic struggle of the director who famously fought to gain acceptance for his work in the USSR.
MARCH 2013
Sotheby's introduces 'At the Crossroads', a selling exhibition which brings together for the first time Contemporary Art from Central Asia and the Caucasus, a geographical area spanning 3,000km from the Caspian Sea in the West to the border of China.
JUNE 2013
Sotheby's London stages 'Changing Focus', the first auction dedicated to Contemporary photography from Russia and Eastern Europe.
NOVEMBER 2013
Two magnificent works from 1917 - Robert Falk's Man in a Bowler Hat and Petr Konchalovsky's Family Portrait in the Artist's Studio - are both sold privately to a Russian collector ahead of their scheduled auction. The Falk sells for an undisclosed sum and the Konchalovsky makes £4.7 million, four times the artist's auction record.
NOVEMBER 2013
Sotheby's London introduces 'Contemporary East', a sale dedicated to contemporary art from Russia and Eastern Europe.
JUNE 2014
Sotheby's Russian paintings sales realise £21.4 million - the highest result in this category since June 2008. Eight lots sell for over £1 million
- more than at any other auction of Russian art before. Malevich's Head of a Peasant makes £2.1 million ($3.5 million), an artist's record for a work on paper.
FEBRUARY 2015
Malevich's Self-Portrait (1909-10) soars to £5.75 million ($8.64 million) in our London sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, an auction record for a work on paper by the artist.
JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2015
Two paintings by Malevich each sell for over $30 million in Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Sales. In London in June, Suprematism, 18th Construction (1915) makes £21.4 million ($33.6 million). In November, Mystic Suprematism (Black Cross On Red Oval) (1920-
22) totals $37.8 million.
NOVEMBER 2016
For a fourth season in a row, Sotheby's Russian Pictures sale in London achieves a total higher than our three competitors combined. A collection of 21 Russian avant-garde artworks doubles estimate to make over £6.6 million ($8.2 million), establishing records for Alexander Rodchenko and Ilya Chashnik. In the same sale, sixty works from the Bar-Gera Collection of Russian Non-Conformist Art make over £1.4 million ($1.7 million).
SOTHEBY'S MOSCOW, 2007-2017: CELEBRATING 10 YEARSIVAN AIVAZOVSKY
The Galata Tower By Moonlight (1845) One of the artist's earliest views of
Constantinople, this outstanding work may have been presented to Emperor Nicholas I
in November 1845.
Important Russian Art London 26 November 2012
JAN BREUGHEL THE YOUNGER
The Virgin And Child With The Infant Saint John The Baptist, Surrounded By Garlands And Swags Of Fruit And Flowers
Old Master & British Paintings Day Sale
London 5 July 2012
PIETER BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER
The Peasants' Brawl
Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale
London 9 December 2015
A Fabergé gilded silver and shaded enamel small kovsh, Moscow (c. 1900)
Russian Art New York April 2008
A Fabergé gilded silver and pictorial enamel kovsh, Moscow, circa 1910
Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons New York 17 April 2012
NIKOLAI FECHIN
Mrs Fechin and Daughter (1925)
This portrait of Fechin's wife and daughter is among the finest paintings from the artist's brilliant American period.
Important Russian Art London 3 June 2013
To mark our 10th anniversary, over forty artworks acquired by Russian collectors in past Sotheby's sales have been brought together for a special exhibition reflecting the breadth and depth of private art collections being assembled in Russia today. Discover a selection of highlights here.
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