All auctions are the same: a few good lots – with the top ones often vastly overpriced – complemented by auction-fillers and shop-worn dealer-stock. Sotheby’s…
RuzhnikovDecember 1, 2020
News & Reviews
Sotheby’s Picture Sale (on-line thru December 1) is overflowing with Aivazovskys, led by Lot 28: a Shipwreck off the Black Sea Coast (1887). This pulsating look at the…
RuzhnikovNovember 20, 2020
On December 2 Sotheby’s are offering 17 items of Fabergé & Vertu from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Twelve of the lots are by Fabergé,…
RuzhnikovNovember 18, 2020
Thanks to lockdowns, quarantines and coronavirus, the days of Russian Week parties, viewings, packed salerooms and posted catalogues are no more. On-line catalogues, as a…
RuzhnikovNovember 17, 2020
Выпуск Новой газета № 122 от 6 ноября 2020 посвящен альбому «Окаянные годы. Революция в России глазами художника Ивана Владимирова». Полный репортаж на сайте Новой…
RuzhnikovNovember 11, 2020
Bonhams’ sale in November opens with a bunch of lacklustre Russian hallway pictures from the lower end of the market…. nothing to e-mail home about.…
RuzhnikovNovember 9, 2020
ALERT READERS MAY REMEMBER an article entitled A Fabergé Farago of Fakes and Impostors published on this website on May 2 and, if so, will…
RuzhnikovAugust 18, 2020
Christie’s 305-lot on-line auction, which ran July 1-21, was of very average quality, and had only five prices of over £100,000 (times were when they’d…
RuzhnikovJuly 27, 2020
Sotheby’s Russian sale in June did pretty well, as we reported earlier. Christie’s 305-lot on-line auction didn’t get going till July 1 (running through July…
RuzhnikovJuly 15, 2020
* all prices include buyer’s premium unless otherwise indicated Sotheby’s two-part Russian sale this June yielded £8m and was not bad at all. People don’t…
RuzhnikovJuly 10, 2020
Недавно ознакомился с фильмом канала Культура «Пропавшие Шедевры Фаберже», и он меня просто взбесил. Как следует из названия, фильм посвящен утраченным и вновь обретенным сокровищам…
RuzhnikovJune 25, 2020
NOT SO LONG AGO I saw a documentary on the Russia-K culture channel called 'Пропавшие Шедевры Фаберже: Fabergé’s Missing Masterpieces'. It made my blood boil.…
RuzhnikovMay 2, 2020
