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
News & Reviews
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
Christie’s sale of the Harry Woolf Fabergé Collection on Monday November 29 totalled £5.2m (against a total estimate of £2.2-£3.2 million), with 84 of the…
RuzhnikovDecember 10, 2021
I guess Covid does not help travel or do any market a favour, least of all Russian. Bidding on the Woolf Collection finished with the…
RuzhnikovDecember 9, 2021
Christie’s short, lacklustre Picture Session kicked off at 10.30am on November 29. Fewer than half of the 62 lots sold, yielding £3.21m. Lot 21, Ivan…
RuzhnikovDecember 8, 2021
