Sotheby's Russian auctions is in New York

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The collection of paintings by Ukrainian avant-garde artists of the early XX century, recently sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York, the Fund acquired Ukrainian avant-garde art, writes Kommersant. The founder of the fund, according to the publication, is a businessman Andrei Adamovskij.
At the auction on April 22 to 86 paintings in the past are in the collections of the Odessa arts patron James Change, and later considered to be lost, the auction house was rescued by 1.987 million dollars. On the sale of works from the collection Perman became known immediately after the auction, but the buyer's name was not disclosed.
As the newspaper notes, Kiev businessman Andrei Adamovskij known as a major collector of Russian and Ukrainian art of the late XIX - early XX century. In the near future, the entrepreneur who controls a group of companies OLEDO, is going to open in Kyiv private gallery of fine art. Part of his extensive collection was exhibited last summer in a Kiev museum of Russian art (including "The arrival of the fleet of Columbus" by Ivan Aivazovsky, bought in 2008 at Sotheby's for $ 1.67 million). It is assumed that the collection of Andrew Adamowski will be exhibited in a private museum of fine arts, philanthropist who is going to open in Kiev Podol.
(Reuters)