20th-century Russian art up for auction at Sotheby’s

By RIA Novosti

Moscow : More than 150 lots of early 20th-century Russian art will be on sale at Sotheby’s auction house in London on March 12.

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The lots were originally valued at around $52 million, and will include works by Russian avant-garde artists Erik Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov, and Oleg Vassiliev.

Vassiliev’s painting “Before Dawn”, put up for auction by a Western diplomat, is expected to fetch up to $590,000.

Sotheby’s previous London Russian art auction, in November of last year, grossed a record 25.7 million pounds ($51.4 million).

The director of Sotheby’s Russian department, Joanna Vickery, said that the relatively low price of the Russian works of art made them especially attractive to foreigners.