[QUOTE="Кирилл Сызранский;1795193"]Century Serov Portrait of Mary by Zelenoy" 1910, tempera, cardboard, CH.
The Museum of Russian art. Of Zelenyj, Ramatgan@
Today, November 24, 2014 for "Russian bid" auction at Christie's in London for a record £9 266 500/$14,529,872 (including buyer's premium) sold written in 1910
a portrait of Mary by Zelenoy work by Valentin Serov (estimate was £1.5-2.5 million).
This is the most expensive work ever sold at auction of Russian art.
The portrait was put up for auction by the municipality of the Israeli city of Ramat Gan, where the Museum of Russian art houses a collection of families of Zelenih donated in 1959, Israel Maria and Michael Zelenyi. The portrait has long been considered lost, and only in 1996, after the opening of the Museum in Ramat Gan, his whereabouts became known. Shortly before the auction was announced that the proceeds from the sale of the work will be focused on the development of museums in the city of Ramat Gan, in particular, on the development of the Museum of Russian art. The buyer of the portrait is unknown, lot purchased by phone.
The previous record Serov was installed in 2012, when the auction FAAM (Fine Art Auction Miami) in Miami "Portrait of Oscar and Rosa Gruzenberg (also long considered lost) was sold for $4.1 million (the hammer price) when the upper limit estimate $200 thousand