LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s claimed a new auction record for Russian artist Ilya Repin on Monday when his 1875 canvas “A Parisian Cafe” fetched 4.5 million pounds at the start of Russian art week in London. The large-scale canvas, depicting a bustlin…
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s claimed a new auction record for Russian artist Ilya Repin on Monday when his 1875 canvas “A Parisian Cafe” fetched 4.5 million pounds at the start of Russian art week in London. The large-scale canvas, depicting a bustlin…
LONDON.- An exceptional portrait by Boris Kustodiev will be among the highlights of London’s June 2011 Russian week. Painted in 1911 while Kustodiev was undergoing treatment in the Swiss resort town of Leysin, this intimate portrait of his daughter Iri…
LONDON.- An exceptional portrait by Boris Kustodiev will be among the highlights of London’s June 2011 Russian week. Painted in 1911 while Kustodiev was undergoing treatment in the Swiss resort town of Leysin, this intimate portrait of his daughter …
By: Ian MacDougall, Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP).- As his trial drew to a close, a former Rhode Island art dealer said Friday that witnesses lied to the jury in claiming he duped them in what prosecutors call a $6 million con. Rocco DeSimone …
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…
LONDON.- MacDougall’s Works on Paper Auction raised over 1.1 m pounds on December 1st, setting new record prices. The top lots went several times higher than their pre-sale estimates. The cover lot 13, Nubian with a Waterpipe by Michail Zichy sold fou…
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 D…
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 D…
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, …
