Yankilevsky about their stolen work
 

Vladimir Yankilevsky told me about his three works from the catalog of the upcoming auction - http://www.shishkin-gallery.ru/aucti...06.html#bottom These pastels to " Stories of a Town of Saltykov- Shchedrin, according to him are among the many stolen Pakito Infante from his studio . Yankilevsky said that gave him the shop with the condition that he keep the rest of her work . And he has lived in Paris. But that , as I understood , the work assigned , they get to Romanov . And then the three got into a collection of pastels Krasnov . Such is the cheerless story .
 Them in this series , there are still work . In particular , another one that was a Romanov , too, was sold to a well-known private collection . And one more bed that have remained in Yankylevsky .

In the first photo - Lot 106 . Three illustrations for the story of Saltykov - Shchedrin's " The Story of a City "( 1967) . Paper /pastel . 42 x 60 . Provenance: Collection of the author , the collection Romanova , a collection of M. Krasnov. 1800000 - 2200000 p .

The second and third photos - other work cycle of illustrations for " Stories of a city . "

More of the missing
 

Here are 2 more lost work in 1991.
Yankilevsky says they are just after his exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery in the fall ROSIZO.
And there supposedly disappeared in 1996-1997.

Who knows how yesterday went auction Russian and Western European art?