Incidentally, in the magazine "Itogi" (well site) at the end of the article also contains ranking compiled by the author.
Top-15 - the most expensive to date, works by Russian artists (in pounds sterling)
http://www.itogi.ru/iskus/2010/22/152874.html
seems to emphasize not to tease and not to start a new debate, which has already taken place here repeatedly and rapidly ... here have decided not to bring him ...
Incidentally, the differences with officio. Rated Artinvestment is not only in the principles of the approach, but also in concrete figures in pounds. somewhere check against sites aukts. Houses - errors on the first page of the respected and beloved site Artinvestment seems. are ...
Malevich "Suprematist Composition" (Sotheby's, 2008) - 36.651 million
Natalia Goncharova "Spanish flu" (Christie's, 2010) - 6430000
Natalia Goncharova "Flowers" (Christie's, 2008) - 5,530,000
Natalia Goncharova, Gathering Apples "(Christie's, 2007) - 4950000
Konstantin Somov "Rainbow" (Christie's, 2007) - 3700000
Natalia Goncharova "Bells" (Sotheby's, 2007) - 3040000
Ilya Kabakov "Beetle" (Phillips de Pury, 2008) - 2900000
Boris Kustodiev "Country Fair" (Sotheby's, 2009) - 2840000
Alexander Yakovlev, "Portrait of Basil Shukhayev in his studio" (Christie's, 2007) - 2820000
Vladimir Baranov, "Rhythm (Adam and Eve)" (Christie's, 2008) - 2720000
Ivan Aivazovsky "American ships to the rocks of Gibraltar" (Christie's, 2007) - 2700000
Konstantin Somov, Russian Pastoral "(Christie's, 2006) - 2700000
Natalia Goncharova "Spanish dancer" (Christie's, 2007) - 2800000
Yury Annenkov Portrait of Aleksandr Nikolaevich Tikhonov "(Christie's, 2007) - 2260000
Mikhail Larionov, "Still Life with Jug and Icon" (Sotheby's, 2007) - 2260000
Rating is based on sales of those artists who not only were born in Russia but whose creative writing was finalized here. Therefore, the legacy of such famous artists as Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexei Yavlensky, Chaim Soutine and Marc Chagall, it was ignored.