The recent round of London art auctions confirmed the strengthening art market and were notable for the reappearance of the Russians who have been absent for the last two years. Sotheby’s and Christie’s brought in a combined US$495m for their evening and day sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art with Sotheby’s adding an
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The results of the recent June sales in London are showing that the Russian art market is making a tentative recovery after a dire 2008 and worse 2009. Average prices had increased from US$139,425 to $181,122 between 2006 and 2007 before falling back to $109,945 in 2009. The number of lots sold for more than
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‘Russian Art Revolution,’an introduction to the emerging Russian art market, Country House magazine, Issue No. 3, May 2007. A sleeping bear awakes Anyone working in upmarket real estate, oil, gas, diamonds, timber, mining or metals will already be aware that the Russians have arrived. The marriage between Russia’s vast natural resources and Western markets is
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Moscow World Fine Art Fair May 2008 The following is a transcript in article format of the lecture given by Ivan Lindsay. “ Good evening – ladies and gentleman and auction house representatives.I have been asked to talk on:- ‘The influence of art dealers and collectors on the development of the art market. The traditions,
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Ivan Lindsay is a private art dealer in European and Russian paintings and has established world record prices for many artists including Goya, Canaletto and Hobbema. He is also a publisher and writer and writes for the magazines Country House, Millionaire, Spears Wealth Management Survey and the Art Book Journal. The indispensability of Russia’s vast
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As Russia’s 18th richest man, Alisher Usmanov, snaps up the Rostropovich art collection ‘en bloc’ from Sotheby’s, Russianart expert, Ivan Lindsay, examines how President Putin isgetting involved with the ‘great Russian art grab’ The Russian art market continues to accelerate with new records being set at every sale, for both turnover and individual prices for
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The aim of this essay is to give an introduction to the Russian Art Market as of writing, summer 2006. With the exception of a few areas that have attracted Western collectors, such as the early 20th century painters like the Cubists and the Supremacists, interest in Russian art lay dormant for most of the
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