One of Russia’s most celebrated post war artists, Valentin Sidorov, has had a successful retrospective at the Russian Museum which closed in November.  Valentin Sidorov was a contemporary of the famous generation of post war artists which included Victor Popkov, Geli Korzhev, Tair Salakhov and Vladimir Stozharov.  His pastoral and lyrical landscapes never fitted
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                      In Art as an Investment Melanie Gerlis successfully manages to strip away some of the mystique on how art acts an investment.  Her format consists of a series of chapters comparing the record of art as an investment with other investments such as the
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  Results at Russian Art week were uneven.  A couple of important pictures attracted attention and Serov’s lovely portrait of Maria Zeitlin set a new auction record for a Russian artwork of pounds 9.2m beating the pounds 7.88m raised for Nicolai Roerich’s Madonna Libris at Bonhams in summer 2013.  However, only 47% of lots sold against
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                                  A new exhibition of Severe Style Russian art is in planning for March 2015 at the Saatchi Gallery in London.  The Saatchi Gallery are keen to build on the success of their two Russian Art exhibitions in 2012/2013, ‘Gaiety is
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  The art market juggernaut thundered on last week with Sotheby’s and Christie’s competing with each other in what can only be described as an art feeding frenzy.  People may write endless speculation as to the motivation and identity of the buyers of all this modern and contemporary art but the only certainty is that
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ARTICLE: The State of the Russian Art Market Ahead of November’s Russian Art Week, by Ivan Lindsay for the Russianartandculture website Prominent art dealer and author Ivan Lindsay takes a look at the Russian art market prior to London’s forthcoming Russian Art Week. It’s early November in a wet and windy London, and dealers and
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      The UK-Russian Year of Culture officially ended when the UK government formally withdrew its support from the project in June citing Russia’s behaviour in Ukraine.  The UK government are not known for their interest in cultural matters anyhow(culture is elitist apparently and doesnt win votes) and their support for this venture had been
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The sanctions against Russia instigated by the US and the EEC have created uncertainty in the Russian art market with both sellers and buyers wanting to see if the situation becomes better or worse before committing themselves to transactions. This is hardly surprising considering all the negative news of late such as the trio of
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                    RAPSI, The Russian Legal Information Agency reported on the 16th September that The Oktyabrsky Distict Court in St Petersburg has extended the term of Yelena Basner’s house arrest until December 15th while they continue to investigate the circumstances around the sale of the second version
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