And with artists? It's owners have to buy for a penny a long time ago, and now at Sotheby vtyuhivayut "Russian". But artists also sold vacuum cleaners?

The most expensive paintings of Russian artists
ARTinvestment.RU - 11.04.2008, 13:30
1. Mark Rothko. White Center. 15.05.2007. 65 million
2. Kazimir Malevich. Supremacist composition. 03.11.2008. 60 million
3. Vasily Kandinsky. Fugue. 17/05/1990. 19 million
4. Alexei Jawlensky. Shokko a wide-brimmed hat. 05.02.2008. 8.4 million pounds
5. Chaim Soutine. A man in a red scarf. 05.02.2007. 7.8 million pounds
6. Marc Chagall. Anniversary. 17/05/1990. 13,5 million
7. Natalia Goncharova. Flowers. 24.06.2008. 5.52 million pounds
8. Konstantin Somov. Rainbow. 13.06.2007. 3.3 million pounds
9. Ilya Kabakov. Zhuk. 28.02.2008. 2.6 million pounds
10. Vladimir Baranoff-Rossini. Rhythm (Adam and Eve). 24.06.2008. 2.72 million pounds
11. Alexander Yakovlev. Portrait of Basil Shuhaeva in his studio. 13.06.2007. 2.5 million pounds
12. Ivan Aivazovsky. American ships in the rock of Gibraltar. 13.06.2007. 2.4 million pounds (c)
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Here, he took from our web site a list of most expensive paintings of Russian artists.
Of the 12 people, only two-Malevich and Aivazovsky, were not immigrants.

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You are about prices and I'm talking about prices. : D

But really?

What really?

We must go and look at Rothko alive. What is your impression?

So-so. : (There is no energy, I live the first time he saw when he walked controversy about his work on the same forum all the time, had a thought: "Well, designer - not very much ... but energy must be taken (except for that kind of money)" . And such a "fiasco" as a piece of wallpaper looked.

It is doubtful that there is no power ... it is even with the computer.

This shows your good susceptibility of subtle energies, and we need both anegdote: "With vodka, that gun just to his feet far exceeded.

What price on them Catalog Akun. All of them use only
Mark Rotko30e years. Another Soviet hudozhnik.V Paris.

I was born and grew up in an educated Jewish family, where they speak Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian. Since 1913 he lived in the United States. (c)

You head something with memory.
I gave you the auction sale, there on Rothko lot number and date of sale, which Akoon-Makoun, uncle?

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real name of the artist - Marcus Rothkovich; he was born September 25, 1903 in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia). In 1913 the family immigrated to the Portland (Ore.). In 1921, Rothko had received a scholarship at Yale University, but studied there only until 1923, then moved to New York. Attended classes of the League to study art, which took place mainly under the leadership of Max Weber, and in 1929 first exhibited his work. His works of this time are the songs, romantic in spirit and style close to expressionism. (c)
He had not lived in the Soviet Union nor the day.
Akun ... : D: D: D

In London, the Tate Modern gallery houses a permanent exhibition, called "Turner and Rothko." There, about 10 rooms Turner among them hanging heels Rothko's works, and Rothko donated their work this gallery with the condition that they will hang next to Turner, whom he called his spiritual forerunner. So, passing on these halls, you realize how great Turner, and how secondary Rothko.

Excuse me, of course, but this picture was painted by a remarkable Soviet artist Clement radish. "Parisienne", oil on canvas ,30-ies

The names of Rothko and Red'ko tune: D

Today in the conversation companion, too, referred to the handbook Akun. Tell us more in detail, what is that thing? What's her status? As she correctly spelled in French-English .....

JA Akun (J.-A. Akoun) since 1972 was art dealer and expert on auctioned in Dr. y about.
He first began recording the results of trades and average quotation of artists for their professional use, but then, beginning in 1985, began publishing a directory of "Ask artists", which soon acquired great fame.

"Quotes hodozhnikov" he added to inventories "Ask watercolors, drawings and pastels," "Ask lithographs, engravings, sculptures, including bronze," ACUÑA - International auctions of art "and" Ask photographs.

His site: http://www.akoun.com

Until the beginning of this century, his books were truly an indispensable tool for any collector.
After distribution of the Internet and the emergence of many specialized sites dedicated to the art market, the interest in his books really slow, now it is just one of countless experts in this market.