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Why, at first glance, the same work, are very differently?

1) Title Two
Year of establishment 2004
Category Paintings
Technique Canvas, oil
Size, cm 100x100
Provenance --
Note --
Auctioning
Title Two
Date 31/05/2008
Auction house Sovcom, Moscow
Lot 54
Estimate 2 700 000 - 2 800 000 RUR (112 320 - 116 480 USD, 72 000 - 74 667 EUR, 56 736 - 58 837 GBP)
Result 1 900 000 RUR (79 040 USD, 50 667 EUR, 39 925 GBP)


2) Title Woman with a Cat and a Butterfly
Year of establishment 1988
Category Paintings
Technique Canvas, oil
Size, cm 190x235
Provenance Collection of Edward Nakhamkin.
Note: Signed.
Signed and dated "1988" on the back.
Exhibited in London, Artists of the Russian Underground, October 2007.
Indicator of investment risk
Auctioning
Title Woman with a Cat and Butterfly
Date 30/11/2007
Auction house Macdougall
Lot 356
Estimate 60 000 - 80 000 GBP (118 782 - 158 376 USD, 76 142 - 101 523 EUR)
Result 164 807 GBP (326 268 USD, 209 146 EUR)


And if you dig into the statistics on this site, you can generally find the same head, with the same size.

How are they alike? The second work is four times larger and five times better in quality.

support Vladimir, the second job and more and much better from an artistic point of view. Incidentally this is why it went much higher estimate, and the first below. Plus, the first created much later in 2004, and provenance her 0. that's all the explanation prices.
I want to say that the second work is very good investment potential - 500 000 $ within a year it probably will cost. But with the first not very clear what will happen.