The avant -garde Amazons rose

The amounts of Sotheby´s proceeds at Russian auction increased by 20 times the auction house Sotheby´s brought to Moscow the top-voltage of the upcoming winter trading of Russian art, which will take place in London on November 26-27. The exhibition will last three days - from November 9 to 11. The halls of the Historical Museum represent about 30 works of famous Russian painters: Ivan Aivazovsky, Natalia Goncharova, Konstantin Makovsky, Konstantin Somov and Vasily Kandinsky. According to the auctionists, winter bidding should bring more than $ 50 million.

The main lots of Russian winter bidding are Natalia Goncharova’s “bells”: this is the most expensive auction lot, its preliminary price is $ 6-10 million. It followed by a “Lyubov Popova Lyubov, made using mixed technology and collage. Its preliminary price is $ 3-4 million. The work is put up for auction by an American private meeting.

The total amounts of Sotheby´s proceeds at Russian auction have increased over the past five years: from $ 8 million in 2000 to $ 153 million in 2006. Commenting on the rapid development of the Russian art market, Joanne Vikeri, director of the London Russian department of Sotheby´s, said: "For the Russian department, 2007 became truly phenomenal. I had a great honor to work with the Assembly of Russian Art of Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya. And I am glad that this collection is now in Russia." In February 2007, 22 price records were installed at Russian auction. In May, Sotheby´s became the first auction house to discover their own representative office in Russia. Then an exhibition was opened in the Historical Museum, where the top-lots of New York and London auctions of Russian art and auctions of impressionism, modernism, and actual art were presented.

Sotheby´s is a leader in Russian trading and has been conducting auctions of Russian art since 1985. Recently - three times a year in London (in February, June and November) and once a year in New York (April).

11/08/2007 / Tatyana Nevskaya Material published in the newspaper No. 210 dated 11/09/2007.