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owner of Still Life with Fruit Mashkov brush painting in 1976 for a couple of thousand guilders , and since then she has been in her collection. During the inventory for the insurance of the property 10 years ago, a picture of Christie's said the expert , and persuaded the owner to sell the picture tonight . The hostess was very excited and terrified when he heard the estimated value of 1.5 million pounds. <! - ~ 11 ~ ->

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Name Mashkov as a sickle to the museum community of the Netherlands. So in 2005, a museum in The Hague, has sold at auction picture Mashkov from their vaults as a disabled are not any artistic merit for a thousand euros. Subsequently, the painting was sold for EUR 3.3mln . By the way the museum profession itself feels fine , lectures , and says that it is Russian moneybags price clocked themselves . <! - ~ 7 ~ ->