Sotheby's declined from the sale of Russian art in New York

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Sotheby's declined from the sale of Russian art in New York
Auction house Sotheby's will no longer sell Russian paintings in New York. On Wednesday,
April 25, said Sonya Bekkerman, director of Russian art at Sotheby's in New York, at a press conference,
the opening pre-auction exhibition in Moscow.

Now the U.S. will be billed only Russian arts and crafts, as this segment is not interested
Only collectors from Russia, but also Americans. Russian paintings from this point on will only trade in London.
Bidding will continue to be held twice a year.

The change of strategy, the auction house head of the Russian department at Sotheby's in London, Jo Vickery explained the feature of the market -
According to her, Russian art collectors live primarily in Moscow and in the UK capital. Employees of New York
department will continue to work in the U.S. but will choose paintings for clients in London.

The closest Russian art auctions in London on May 28-29 will be held - it is an exhibition of paintings from the upcoming auction, opened at the
Moscow on Wednesday in a historic museum. On it, in particular, exhibited "Still Life (Bells)" Natalya Goncharova
(3.4 million pounds), "The Bathers" by Mikhail Larionov (300-500 thousand pounds) and other works. Top-lot auction will be
Paintings Vasily Vereshchagin "Spy", but the painting did not come to Moscow.

In Moscow, also exhibited several instances of paintings by old masters, which will go under the hammer July 4 - two paintings
Pieter Brueghel the Younger ("Tower of Babel" and "John the Baptist Preaching"). The exhibition will run until Friday, April 27.

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