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
News & Reviews
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
I hadn’t planned a trip to GEM-GENEVE, as the Geneva Gem Show is wittily called – but when I heard that the so-called ‘Igor Carl…
RuzhnikovDecember 3, 2022
RUSSIAN MATERIAL accounted for around half of Sotheby’s 144-lot sale of Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Objets de Luxe at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Geneva…
RuzhnikovNovember 28, 2022
As a sad symbol of the demise of London’s Russian auction market, William MacDougall died suddenly in Moscow on August 25 (though nearly three months later there…
RuzhnikovNovember 12, 2022
SOTHEBY’S, NEW BOND STREET. WEDNESDAY 25 MAY. 2PM. Ten, maybe 12 people in the saleroom. Just two or three familiar faces amidst the empty seats.…
RuzhnikovMay 30, 2022
On 25 May 2022, despite events in Ukraine, Sotheby’s London will be holding an auction to assess how things are looking on the Russian art…
RuzhnikovMay 24, 2022
25 Мая 2022 несмотря на события в Украине, Сотбис все же рискнули провести аукцион и посмотреть, что же происходит на рынке русского искусства. Пару раз…
RuzhnikovMay 24, 2022
24 февраля Россия, страна, с которой я связан происхождением и культурой, развязала чудовищную братоубийственную войну. Вот уже несколько дней мы наблюдаем, как русское оружие уничтожает…
RuzhnikovMarch 8, 2022
On November 19 Anita Singh, the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Arts & Entertainment Editor,’ made the sensational claim (Faberge Telegraph Article PDF) that London’s Victoria & Albert Museum…
RuzhnikovDecember 20, 2021
PICTURES There was a healthy gathering at Sotheby’s on Tuesday 30 November – albeit no comparison with previous times, when the Russian contingent was…
RuzhnikovDecember 13, 2021
