News & Reviews
The Collections sale staged by Christie’s New York April 9-23 featured 29 Russian items, sixteen of them icons: a nice clean group. None were fantastic,…
RuzhnikovMay 4, 2026
Heritage Auctions of Dallas are becoming a very serious outfit when it comes to Russian Art. Numbers-wise they now excel Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Their next…
RuzhnikovApril 29, 2026
Bonham’s had an excellent couple of days in Paris on April 21/22, thanks to both Russian pictures and objets d’art. A View of Capri by…
RuzhnikovApril 28, 2026
THIS EXCEPTIONAL FABERGÉ CAPE-CLASP TELLS A FASCINATING STORY. It takes the form of wings and tail-feathers in green, white and midnight blue enamel, linked by…
RuzhnikovApril 21, 2026
Auction catalogues often resort to weird verbiage that seems designed to confuse potential buyers rather than enlighten them. Fabergé items are chronically affected by such…
RuzhnikovMarch 16, 2026
The Fabergé auction year ended on a spectacular high at Christie’s London on December 2 when a hardstone model of a Street Painter (1916) zoomed to…
RuzhnikovFebruary 23, 2026
A Piotr Konchalovsky Bridge with Horse (1921), oil on canvas 67 x 82cm, trotted into Doyle’s New York saleroom on 10 June 2025. The work…
RuzhnikovFebruary 4, 2026
THE TIME HAS COME to blow the lid on the fake Fabergé market! That’s the mission of FAUXBERGÉ ! Forgery, Fakery & Fabergé – a…
RuzhnikovFebruary 2, 2026
Although commonly considered Polish, Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) was actually Russian – born Мария Гурвич-Гурская (Maria Gurvich-Górska) in Moscow to a Polish mother and Jewish…
RuzhnikovJanuary 26, 2026
SOTHEBY’S CELEBRATED their return to Russian Art Sales with a stylish sit-down lunch at their New Bond Street premises, convivially hosted by Reto Barmettler (Head…
RuzhnikovJanuary 15, 2026
