On 19 March 2025 it was nice to return to auctioneering civilization – in Newbury, an affluent horseracing centre 60 miles west of London on…
RuzhnikovApril 10, 2025
News & Reviews
I was looking forward to bidding on items from a venerable Fabergé collection in early April – but couldn’t. The 42-lot ensemble was touted as…
RuzhnikovApril 8, 2025
The significance of Sotheby’s sale of Fabergé, Imperial & Revolutionary Art in London on November 26 lay not so much in its contents or results…
RuzhnikovDecember 11, 2024
Сhristie's Paris, 20 November 2024, Lot 24, Fabergé Kiwi, Estimate 70,000 – 90,000 EUR, Lot sold: 378,000 EUR A Fabergé Kiwi in grey agate (c.1910),…
RuzhnikovNovember 25, 2024
Sotheby’s are offering 194 lots of Fabergé, Imperial & Revolutionary Art in London on November 26. They only got around to posting their online catalogue…
RuzhnikovNovember 18, 2024
THE RUSSIAN ART MARKET is very much alive despite the war in Ukraine and Putin’s attempts to destroy the Russian economy. Sotheby’s and Christie’s may…
RuzhnikovNovember 6, 2024
There’s nothing more satisfying for the savvy art dealer than having lunch while watching the latest auction action. I’ve often indulged in such decadent activity…
RuzhnikovAugust 1, 2024
Sotheby’s 160-lot London auction of Fabergé, Imperial & Revolutionary Works of Art on July 11 had plenty of tiddly little pieces but nothing, at first…
RuzhnikovSeptember 13, 2023
Sotheby’s 160-lot London auction of Fabergé, Imperial & Revolutionary Works of Art, to be held on July 11 (on-line bidding only opened June 27), has…
RuzhnikovJuly 3, 2023
As I explained last month, Sotheby’s these days seem to inhabit a mad, mad, mad, mad world. Christie’s is no saner. I recently bought items…
RuzhnikovMarch 14, 2023
COVID did some strange things to people (and I’m not just talking about Vladimir Putin). Take Sotheby’s. Their New Bond Street home used to be…
RuzhnikovFebruary 16, 2023
Bargains To Be Found – If You Seek Far And Wide DESPITE PUTIN setting out to destroy Russian civilization, and despite the demise of…
RuzhnikovDecember 20, 2022
