Sotheby's Opens First Exhibition and Sale in Russia
Sotheby's has been selling Russian art to foreign collectors and a great variety of foreign and Russian art to Russian collectors for several decades.
This is the first time the famed auction house has arranged an exhibition and sale of works in Russia.
The director of Sotheby's Russia, Irina Stepanova, says this is one of the many ways the company has to bring "works of art and luxury objects" to their clients.
This is the first time the famed auction house has arranged an exhibition and sale of works in Russia.
The director of Sotheby's Russia, Irina Stepanova, says this is one of the many ways the company has to bring "works of art and luxury objects" to their clients.
"Madonna with Child and Cherubins," Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, oil on canvas, circa 1640-60. Madonna and the Christ child was a favorite subject of this artist.
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"No other 20th century artist could capture the beauty of the female form both erotically and modestly like Serebryakova."
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The exhibition and sale present a very wide spectrum of fine art from Europe and Russia.
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"Post Office," Pierre-Auguste Renoir, oil on canvas, 1907. Renoir could see this country post office from his villa in Cagnes-sur-Mer.
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Private sales - not revenue from auctions - are playing an increasingly important role in Sotheby's portfolio.
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In 2020 Sotheby's private sales amounted to $1.6 million.
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The exhibition is being held at the In Artibus Foundation gallery in the center of Moscow.
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Works by Russian artists from the early avant-garde and the later non-conformist period are as popular with some collectors as works by the Old Masters and impressionists.
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