Taken from the Museum IRRI paintings of the banker Ananiev found in the suburbs
ARTinvestment.RU   08 ноября 2019

Investigators for several days conducting actions in a warehouse in Domodedovo, where they found paintings from the collection of the Institute of Russian realist art — in my opinion, the best of private museums

History the daring evacuation of the collection, which in Russia was threatened with arrest, alas, remained without exciting continue. It is not exported abroad. It is now known that the machine with the cloths didn't even cross the border of Moscow region. And the existing system of traffic cameras to detect the destination was only a matter of time and desire.

Briefly recall the outline of events. 30 may 2019 arbitration court has seized the property of the Ananyev brothers, the former owners ruined PSB declared in the international search. Under arrest were including the building of the IRRI Museum and the paintings in it that I bought Alexey Ananiev. But two weeks later, when the Museum came the bailiffs of the paintings gone. Packed, picked up, where — is not known. Two weeks — a good head start, so there were hypotheses about the miraculous rescue in Cyprus and in other Sunny countries. Besides the main masterpieces Alexey Ananiev bought at foreign auctions, which means that the paintings could be legal papers for export. I will not hide, in this match I was rooting for the collector. Well now what to say. It ran its course.

However, reliable details and a list was found not published yet. I will remind that Alexey Ananiev acquired the choicest things. At Sotheby's for fantastic money, with a huge overpayment. The big picture "Over the snow" George of Nyssa he bought at Sotheby's for $2 952 000 (now it costs more like $400 000) and the canvas "In the way" — for $947 000 (current estimate $350 000). And so it was purchased a lot of things.

the Museum IRRI was closed in June 2019. His former art-директор Nadezhda Stepanova recently was operating officer of the Polytechnic Museum.

V. B., AI

Sources: forbes.ru, mash.ru, artguide.com

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