The most expensive paintings of Russian artists. The rankings update ARTinvestment.RU
ARTinvestment.RU   01 июня 2015

Before the beginning of the Russian week in London, we decided to expand and improve our rating of the most expensive works of Russian artists: for convenience, all prices were converted into us dollars, and the list was expanded to 30 names

In the days when London's leading auction houses hold a traditional series of Russian art auctions, we decided to expand and improve our rating "the Most expensive paintings of Russian artists". For convenience, all prices were converted into us dollars, and the list was expanded to 30 family@

Artworks in the ranking were selected according to three criteria@

1. Participation was accepted only public auction results.

2. Belonging to Russian artists was determined by place of birth. Born in the Russian Empire or the USSR — so, Russian artist, without taking notice of ethnic origin and discounts, as later happened. For example, the fact that Kandinsky in different years were citizenship and Russian, and German, and he died with the French, is not a ground to doubt that the artist Russki@

3. Rule: one artist — one picture. That is, the situation when, strictly speaking, all the first places that would take the work of Mark Rothko's allowed: leave only the most expensive work, and all other results for paintings by this artist ignoriruet@

as a basis For rating the results were taken considering the prize of the buyer (Buyers Premium) denominated in dollars (the numbers shown in European auctions, i.e. in pounds or euros, converted to dollars at the exchange rate on the trade date).

in addition, the number of participants increased up to 30 names. Here and a new record auction price for a work Chaim Soutine mounted on 11 may 2015, old, but not falling in the rankings earlier due to lack of positions of records Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Makovsky, Faith Rokhlina, Pavel Kuznetsov and Boris Grigoriev@

Final rating has turned out here takin@

1. $86,88 million mark Rothko. Orange, red, yellow (1961)
2. $60,00 million Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist composition (1916)
3. $28,16 million Chaim Soutine. Bullish carcass (approx. 1923)
4. $23,04 million Wassily Kandinsky. Sketch for "Improvisation № 8" (1909)
5. $18,59 million Alexei Jawlensky. Sacco a wide-brimmed hat (approx. 1910)
6. $14,85 million Marc Chagall. Anniversary (1923)
7. $14,51 million Valentin Serov. Portrait Of Maria Zelenoy. 1910
8. $12,09 million Nicholas Roerich. Madonna Laboris (Proceedings Of Our Lady Of. 1931)
9. $10,88 million Natalia Goncharova. Flowers (approx. 1912)
10. $10,84 million Nicolai Fechin. Little cowboy
11. $9,42 million Nicolas de Stael. Reclining Nude (1954)
12. $8,48 million Tamara de Lempicka. The dream (Rafael on a green background. 1927)
13. $7,43 million Ilya Repin. Paris cafe (1875)
14. $7,33 million Konstantin Somov. Rainbow (1927)
15. $7,25 million Ilya Mashkov. Still life with fruit (1910)
16. $7,07 million Boris Kustodiev. The trooper (1923)
17. $6,34 million Vasily Polenov. Who among you is without sin? (1908)
18. $6,27 million Yuri Annenkov. Portrait of Aleksandr Nikolaevich Tikhonov (1922)
19. $6,15 million Vasily Vereshchagin. Pearl mosque in Agra (1870-1880)
20. $5,83 million Ilya Kabakov. Beetle (1982)
21. $5,56 million Alexander Yakovlev. Portrait of Vasily Shukhaev in his Studio (1928)
22. $5,37 million Vladimir Baranov-Россине. The rhythm (Adam and eve. 1910)
23. $5,34 million Ivan Aivazovsky. American ships to the rock of Gibraltar (1873)
24. $5,02 million Vladimir Borovikovsky. Portrait of Countess Liubov Ilyinichna Kusheleva, née Bezborodko (1803)
25. $4,34 million Sonia Delaunay. The market in miño (1915)
26. $4,30 million Mikhail Nesterov. The vision of the youth Bartholomew (1922)
27. $4,20 million Konstantin Makovsky. From the everyday life of the Russian nobleman in the late XVII century (1868)
28. $4,05 million Vera Rokhlin. Gamblers (1919)
29. $3,97 million Pavel Kuznetsov. Eastern city. Bukhara (1912)
30. $3,72 million Boris Grigoriev. A shepherd from the hills (1920)

We, in ARTinvestment.RU I hope that that has started today in London's Russian week of trading will bring new records to the works of Russian artists — and we will have not one reason for another pleasant correctiv@