Recently we brought our annual results for Moscow and St. Petersburg trade (see " The most expensive painting at auction in Russia 2012 »). And now it's time for the global Russian records, which for obvious reasons in full have been established on foreign auction sites.

New rating confirms once again a simple idea: art market has long been divided into two separate worlds. There are, roughly speaking, the mass segment of art - high quality, medium, different, it is taking its own working life: fluctuations in supply and demand, price trends change, crises, victories and disappointments. And there is a conditional "Olympus" - the market masterpieces, items recognized exceptional. And in this segment operates only one rule - the highest competition and galloping rise in prices, which continues even in times of crisis. The struggle for the masterpieces are not subordinated to the logic of today. Here the result may exceed a reasonable estimate at times, and sometimes dozens of times.

This picture remains unchanged in its contradictions. Triumphant reports from auctions should not be taken as the mood of the market. After all, in the other sectors for many years reigns pragmatism and restraint.

But back to an annual record of the artist from the orbit of Russian art. Here too they asked us trouble: the current ratings ARTinvestment.RU at times had to be adjusted several times a month . Of the top 25 results, 11 Russian artists in 2012, established their absolute personal records: Mark Rothko Mark , Wassily Kandinsky , Kustodiev , Arshile Gorky Arshile , Valentin Serov , -Vodkin , Gudiashvili , Leon Bakst , Orest Orest Adamovich Kiprensky , Saryan , Sergey Sudeikin . Some of them have been installed with a truly Russian sweep. So, for the record updated twice a year for creativity Valentin Serov. And put a portrait of four point Gruzenberg, who with reasonable estimate 150-200 thousand dollars "any high" for $ 4 million. Or remember another sensational year - the result of 900 thousand pounds for a pencil drawing Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov Yuri , the estimated pre-30 - 50,000 pounds. Even a 30-fold excess of the estimate does not stop the obsessive shoppers.

However, in our website and instructive examples of proven investment. In particular, the portrait by Chaim Chaim Soutine reliably brought his former owner over $ 2 million over 8 years of enjoyment from ownership.

Comparing Russian rating for domestic and export markets are evident and obvious "stylistic differences". Nash, internal auction market - the patrimony of realistic landscapes and still lifes. There is not a single abstraction. But with Russian artists on the international market is the opposite - a foreign rating of Russian art is highly rated, innovative work, and the top ranks occupied by works in the genre of abstraction and abstract expressionism.

So much so we wail: Meet the most expensive work of artists from the orbit of Russian art up to 2012. To rank, we used the prices include the auction house premium, all prices are quoted against the dollar at the exchange rate on the date of the transaction.

1. Mark Rothko Orange, red, yellow. 1961 Oil on canvas. 236.2 x 206,4 Christie's. 08.05.12. Lot 20 Estimate: 35-45 million Result: 86.88 million record for the artist