Matthew Bown (art dealer and collector of Soviet painting ):".. most expensive thing at the fair, I think, was very striking still life Pyotr Konchalovsky, 1939, during which Leonid Shishkin requested $ 3 million this work from the American collection was the only product on the stand Shishkin Gallery. Perhaps only Konchalovsky and two alleged in the directory icon from the Vienna Kratovchil Gallery - Sinai X century Novgorod XV century - has been considerable work on the entire Russian Art Fair ... "
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Matthew Bown. London Fair Russian razliva
http://forum.artinvestment.ru/blog.php?b=745
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It is interesting to hear the distinguished Leonid Shishkin history of this picture ... (EA)
(L. Shishkin party website forum ARTinvestment.RU
http://forum.artinvestment.ru/member.php?u=32935)