A two-day Russian art auction at Sotheby’s in New York fetched $46.449 million, breaking several records for individual artists, as wealthy Russians turned out to buy into their cultural heritage.
Russia’s economic resurgence since the end of the 1990s and the continually expanding class of super-rich have brought soaring demand for Russian art. Sotheby’s Russian art [...]

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LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s hugely successful pioneering London sale of Russian Contemporary Art in February, 2007 – the Company’s best-ever year for sales of Russian Art – on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Sotheby’s will hold its second ever sale in this category in London. Comprising more than 150 lots which range in media from fine art [...]

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