The most expensive paintings by Russian artists. The most expensive artists in the world
No. 20. $75,100,000. "Royal Red and Blue", Mark Rothko, sold in 2012.
The majestic canvas was one of eight works handpicked by the artist for his landmark solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
No. 19. $76,700,000. "Massacre of the Innocents", Peter Paul Rubens, created in 1610.
The painting was purchased by Kenneth Thompson at Sotheby's in London in July 2002. Bright and dramatic work Rubens can compete for the title of “the most unexpected success" Christie's valued this painting at only 5 million euros.
No. 18. $78,100,000. "Bal at the Moulin de la Galette", Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1876.
The work was sold in 1990, at that time it was listed as the second most expensive painting in the world ever sold. The owner of the masterpiece was Ryoei Saito, chairman of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co. He wanted the canvas to be cremated with him after his death, but the company ran into financial difficulties with its loan obligations, so the painting had to be used as collateral.
No. 17. 80 million dollars. "Turquoise Marilyn", Andy Warhol, painted in 1964, sold in 2007.
Purchased by Mr. Steve Cohen. The price has not been confirmed, but this figure is generally considered to be true.
No. 16. 80 million dollars. "False Start" by Jasper Johns, written 1959
The painting belonged to David Geffen, who sold it to the CEO of the Citadel investment group, Kenneth S. Griffin. It is recognized as the most expensive painting that was sold during the lifetime of the artist, cult master Jasper Johns.
No. 15. $82,500,000. "Portrait of Doctor Gachet", Vincent Van Gogh, 1890.
Japanese businessman Ryoei Saito purchased the painting in 1990 at auction. At that time it was the most expensive painting in the world. In response to the outcry that arose in society regarding Saito’s desire to cremate the work of art with him after death, the businessman explained that, in this way, he expresses his selfless affection for the painting.
No. 14. $86,300,000. "Triptych", Francis Bacon, 1976.
This Bacon masterpiece from three parts broke the previous record for his works sold ($52.68 million). The painting was purchased by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
No. 13. $87,900,000. “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II”, Gustav Klimt, 1912.
The only model depicted twice by Klimt and sold a few months after the first version. This is a portrait of Bloch-Bauer, one of four paintings that fetched a total of $192 million in 2006. The buyer is unknown.
No. 12. $95,200,000. "Dora Maar with a cat", Pablo Picasso, 1941.
Another Picasso painting that went under the hammer at a fabulous price. In 2006, it was acquired by a mysterious Russian anonymous person, who at the same time bought works by Monet and Chagall worth a total of $100 million.
No. 11. $104,200,000. "Boy with a Pipe", Pablo Picasso, 1905.
This is the first painting to break the $100 million barrier in 2004. Oddly enough, the name of the person who showed such a keen interest in Picasso’s portrait was never made public.
No. 10. $105,400,000. "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)", Andy Warhol, 1932.
This is the most expensive work famous legend pop art, Andy Warhol. The painting became a star of modern art, going under the hammer at Sotheby's.
No. 9. $106,500,000. “Nude, green leaves and bust”, Pablo Picasso, 1932.
This sensual and colorful masterpiece became the most expensive work by Picasso ever sold at auction. The painting was in the collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody and has not been exhibited in public since 1961.
No. 8. $110 million "Flag", Jasper Johns, 1958.
"Flag" is the most famous work Jasper Johns. The artist painted his first American flag in 1954-55.
No. 7. $119,900,000. "The Scream", Edvard Munch, 1895.
This is a unique and most colorful work of the four versions of Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream". Only one of them remains in private hands.
No. 6. $135,000,000. “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I”, Gustav Klimt.
Maria Altman in judicial procedure sought the right to own the painting, since Adele Bloch-Bauer bequeathed it state gallery Austria, and her husband later canceled the donation amid the events of World War II. By joining legal rights, Maria Altman sold the portrait to Ronald Lauder, who exhibited it in his gallery in New York.
No. 5. $137,500,000. "Woman III", Willem de Kooning.
Another painting sold by Geffen in 2006, but this time the buyer was billionaire Stephen A. Cohen. This strange abstraction was part of a series of six masterpieces by Kooning, painted between 1951 and 1953.
No. 4. $140,000,000. "No. 5, 1948", Jackson Pollock.
As reported in the New York Times, film producer and collector David Geffen sold the painting to David Martinez, managing partner of FinTech Advisory, although latest information not confirmed. The truth is shrouded in mystery.
Every year, the Artprice portal publishes a list of the most expensive artists in the world, whose works are sold at auction for mind-boggling sums. As a rule, names included in this rating famous painters and sculptors, whose prices may make you dizzy. The top ten of the “Artprcie” rating included such masters as: Claude Monet, Qi Baishi, Alberto Giacometti and Jeff Koons. In 2014, works by ten of the most expensive artists and sculptors were sold at auction for a whopping $2.7 billion. The most expensive work, the sculpture “Chariot” by Giacometti, went under the hammer for $90 million. Do you want to know who is in the top five most expensive artists in the world? Read our post.
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1. Mark Rothko ranks fifth among the most expensive artists in the world - American artist, a representative of abstract expressionism, as well as the creator of “color field painting”. Last year, his works were sold at auction for a total of $249.2 million, and the most expensive of them went under the hammer for $59 million. (Photo: Getty Images). 
2. The most expensive painting by Mark Rothko is “Orange, Red, Yellow” (pictured), which was sold at Christie’s in May 2012 for $77.5 million. (Photo: Jeremy Yoder/flickr.com). 
3. Gerhard Richter took fourth place in the ranking - he is the only living artist who is among the top five most expensive masters in the world. He surprises not so much with his high position in the ranking, but with his creativity, which is generally difficult to classify. Therefore, it is not surprising that his works are extremely popular and are sold at auction for increasingly higher sums. (Photo: Getty Images). 
4. In 2014, a total of 258 works by Gerhard Richter were sold for a total value of $254.3 million. His most expensive work was the 1989 painting “Abstraktes Bild” (pictured), which was auction house Christie's sold for $28.7 million. 
5. Third place among the most expensive artists in the world was taken by Francis Bacon, a self-taught Irish artist. Last year, 122 paintings were sold for $270 million. (Photo: Getty Images). 
6. The most expensive painting by Francis Bacon was the triptych “Three Sketches for a Portrait of Lucian Freud” (1969), which was auctioned in 2013 for $142.4 million. It is currently the most expensive work of art in the history of the auction market. (Photo: Garrett Bithell/flickr.com). 
7. In second place in the ranking of the most expensive artists in the world is Pablo Picasso, whose works were sold last year for $375 million. (Photo: Getty Images). 
8. The most expensive work by Pablo Picasso and the third on the list of the most expensive paintings in the world is “Nude, green leaves and bust" (pictured) 1932, sold in 2010 for $106.5 million. (Photo: James R fauxtoes/flickr.com). 
9. Based on the results of 2014, Andy Warhol became the most expensive artist in the world. His paintings were sold for $569.5 million. For comparison, the entire French art auction market failed to achieve such a sales volume last year. (Photo: Getty Images). 
10. In 2014, the most expensive Andy Warhol painting was “Elvis Triple” (1963), which was sold at auction for $81.9 million. (Photo: lar3/flickr.com).
When discussing art and world painting, I often ask myself interesting questions. For example, why do objects of art and paintings by great artists become more and more expensive from year to year? How or why does an all-consuming passion for art arise in a person, which over time develops into love? Or arising from these questions - how to discover the art collector in yourself?
Once, I even read a small, but very, excerpt from a book by art critic Alan Bamberger: "The Art of Buying Art", and a lot became clear to me. What makes up the price of a particular artist or painting, how to become a collector, etc.
If we talk about collecting art, you need to understand that even the most “high-profile” public or anonymous acquisitions are, first of all, an investment, a carefully thought-out flow of investment in an object of art. Everything is exactly like this - first money, big money, and then - love, passion, affection, admiration, or ambitious window dressing, a farce between a bunch of rich people - investors, who are correctly called - “a narrow circle of intellectuals - connoisseurs.”
At the moment when art began to be bought and sold, talk about sublime feelings and ardent love for art is largely inappropriate and naive.
It is foolish to believe that when you first saw Malevich’s painting “Black Square”, you were immediately overcome by a disarming passion for great art. Personally, instead of passionate feelings, I had hysterical laughter. After all, only a Russian artist, with the inquisitive mind and ingenuity typical of Russian people, was able to demonstrate to the whole world that “This” will someday be valued at about $20 million. Kazimir Malevich himself even wrote the inscription “Battle of the Negroes at Night,” which was only recently discovered by experts. “Black Suprematist Square” by Kazimir Malevich - key work art of the twentieth century - what do you think? Oh well...
Without any mockery or sarcasm, it’s better to tell you about the most expensive paintings by Russian artists throughout the history of world art, which were publicly bought and sold at various auctions.
1. $86.88 millionMark Rothko. Orange, Red, Yellow (1961)
Photo: Reuters, Alessia Pierdomenico Markus Yakovlevich Rotkovich - Markus Rotkowitz - Mark Rothko... 1903–1970. — one of the most mysterious artists modernity. Originally from Dvinsk, Vitebsk province, Russian Empire.
His life path seems to be woven from contradictions - in creative searches, in actions, in gestures... Considered one of the ideologists and, of course, key figure in American Abstract Expressionism, Rothko could not stand it when his work was called abstract.
Rothko's works are not exceptionally rare on the market (like, for example, Malevich's paintings). Every year, approximately 10–15 pieces of his paintings alone are put up for auction at auctions, not counting graphics. That is, there is no shortage, but millions and tens of millions of dollars are paid for them. And such prices are hardly accidental. Rather, it is a tribute to his innovation, a desire to open new layers of meaning and join the creative phenomenon of one of the most mysterious Russian artists.
On May 8, 2012, at the auction of post-war and contemporary art at Christie’s, the painting “Orange, Red, Yellow” from 1961 went for $86.88 million including commission.
The work comes from the collection of Pennsylvania art patron David Pincus. David and his wife Gerry bought the work, measuring 2.4 × 2.1 meters, from the Marlborough Gallery, and then loaned it to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a long time. The painting “Orange, Red, Yellow” became not only the most expensive work by an artist of Russian origin, but also the most expensive work of post-war and contemporary art sold at open auction.
2. $60.00 million. Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist composition (1916)
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich(1878–1935), certainly one of the five most prominent revolutionaries of art of the 20th century on a global scale. Philosopher, innovator, developer of new theoretical approaches, ideologist of Suprematism, which became business card Russia in the international artistic arena. Malevich's works are pride best museums world and the pipe dream of many collectors.
The culmination of Malevich’s research can be called the work “Black Square” of 1915 (the Tretyakov Gallery houses one of the four surviving versions).
The appearance at an open auction of a work of such a high class as the “Suprematist Composition” is not just an exceptional event, but a one-off event. Works of this level can appear at auction only from museums. This is exactly what has happened in recent years.
Malevich's Suprematist paintings were sued by the heirs' lawyers for restitution.
On November 3, 2008, “Suprematist Composition” (1916) was sold at Sotheby’s for $60 million This is the first of five paintings that came to the disposal of Malevich’s heirs from dutch museum Stedelijk again as a result court decision on a restitution dispute.
According to market experts, the price for this work by Malevich could be even higher. Unfortunately, the timing of the auction took place during the unfolding global financial crisis, when there was still no certainty about its depth or duration. It is possible that this is why the purchase of Malevich’s masterpiece took place in a relatively conservative manner, at a price close to the guaranteed bid made in advance by the foreign buyer.
3. $28.16 million. Chaim Soutine. Bull Carcass (c. 1923)
Chaim Soutine (1893/1894–1943)- Russian artist of world significance, one of the most significant representatives of the Paris School. This is the name for a long time was little known at home. Soutine is a native of Smilovichi, now a city, but then a Jewish town 27 km from Minsk, the tenth child in a tailor’s family. Soutine's artistic gift was revealed early, but, as often happens, unfortunately, in the wrong place and at the wrong time. The boy began to draw what he saw around him, and in the Orthodox Jewish tradition it is forbidden to depict people and animals.
Today we can confidently outline the range of subjects that are in greatest demand among collectors. Some people, not without reason, will think that compositions with bull carcasses, slaughtered poultry, and distorted faces in portraits of old women, beggars, and commoners look repulsive. But it is in these things, where there is room for Soutine’s sick red, that his brilliant expressionist talent is most strongly expressed.
Historians suggest that Soutine brought these themes from memories of his native place. This is how he remembered the faces of those people, that way of life:
“One day I saw a village butcher cut off the head of a bird and let the blood flow out. I wanted to scream, but at the sight of the satisfied expression on his face, my scream got stuck in my throat. I feel this scream there all the time. Then, as a child, I drew a rough portrait of my teacher, I tried to get rid of this cry inside me, but in vain. When I painted the bull carcass, I was still trying to release it."
Since 2007, the most expensive work by Chaim Soutine was the meter-long portrait “Man in a Red Scarf” from 1921, sold at Sotheby’s for £7.8 million ($15.34 million). The balance of power in the artist’s market was changed by Christie’s auction on May 8, 2013, where the painting “The Little Confectioner” was sold for $18 million (without commission - $16 million).
The last sale, which allowed Chaim Soutine to move from 5th to 3rd place in our ranking, took place on May 11, 2015: at the Christie's auction in New York, the painting "Le Bœuf", painted around 1923, was sold for $28.165 million(estimate: $20–30 million).
Between 1923 and 1925, Soutine painted a series of nine paintings of bull carcasses. First he painted still lifes in Cannes, and later in a new spacious Parisian studio, which he managed to rent with money from the sale of paintings to his new patron, Albert Barnes.
Soutine hung the carcass on the wall and painted still lifes. And even when the meat began to spoil, he did not stop, but only asked his assistant to ward off the flies.
The neighbors, naturally, began to complain about the stench and called the police. According to the first version, Soutine tried to explain to the police officers how much more important art is than olfactory pleasures. According to another, at the sight of people in uniform, whom he was always afraid of, he hid, leaving his assistant to deal with the police. After this incident, the carcasses had to be soaked in formaldehyde. When the paintings were completed, Soutine, afraid of poisoning the local dogs, chose to bury the subjects of his still lifes in the ground.
To date, only three of the nine ink paintings are in private hands, and the one that sold for a record sum is the largest and most expressive.
1. "No. 5, 1948", Jackson PollockThis painting by American abstract artist Paul Jackson Pollock is the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. It was created by the artist in 1948, just at the time when his first exhibition took place, which was a phenomenal success. The painting was made using the “flowing technique” invented by Pollock himself, which is also called dripping or splashing.
The artist spread his canvases on the floor and poured or splashed paint without touching the surface with the brush. Pollock was distinguished by his love of canvases large size, and “No. 5, 1948” is no exception. It is 244 cm high and 122 cm wide.
2. "Woman III", Willem de Kooning, $137.5 million(date of sale - 11.2006)
"Woman III", Willem de Kooning This work is part of a series of paintings made by abstract artist Willem de Kooning in a semi-realistic style and dedicated to women. Created in 1953, the painting is currently the only job from this series, located in a private collection. Since the 1970s, the painting was the property of the Tehran Museum of Modern Art, and in 1994 it was sold into private hands and taken out of the country. In 2006, its owner David Geffen sold Woman III to American billionaire Steven Cohen.
3. "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" Gustav Klimt $135.0 million(date of sale - 06/18/2006)
"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" Gustav Klimt This painting, also known as " Golden Adele"or "Austrian Mona Lisa" is one of the most famous works of the founder of Austrian Art Nouveau, Gustav Klimt. Painted in 1907, it belongs to the “golden period” in the work of Klimt, who at that time combined oil painting with relief techniques and gilding. The portrait shows Adele Bloch-Bauer, daughter general director Vienna Banking Union Moritz Bauer and the wife of the manufacturer Ferdinand Bloch. In June 2006, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” was sold at Sotheby’s for $135 million. The new owner of the painting was Ronald Lauder, co-owner of the famous cosmetics empire Estee Lauder.
4. “Nude, green leaves and bust” by Pablo Picasso $106.5
million(date of sale - 05/05/2010)
"Nude, green leaves and bust" Pablo Picasso The portrait of the artist's beloved Marie-Thérèse Walter is generally considered one of the most significant works P. Picasso. At the Christie's auction in New York, about a dozen collectors competed for the painting. The buyer who bid over the phone has not been named.
5. "Boy with a Pipe" by Pablo Picasso $104.1 million(date of sale - 05/04/2004)
"Boy with a Pipe" by Pablo Picasso The painting belongs to the so-called “pink” period in the artist’s work. The record price for which it was sold at Sotheby's in May 2004 was a real surprise for art fans - after all, the canvas was painted in a manner not similar to the creative handwriting of the pioneer of Cubism.
6. "Dora Maar with a cat" by Pablo Picasso $95.2 million(date of sale - 05/03/2006)
"Dora Maar with a cat" by Pablo Picasso Dora Maar, a talented artist and photographer, was Pablo Picasso's lover for 9 years. Although she never posed for him, many of her portraits and sketches for them have survived. It was Picasso who depicted her as a woman with a lamp in her famous painting"Guernica" (1937), and in the form of " Crying woman"(1937). The artist himself spoke about it this way: “For years I painted her broken face not out of sadism or for pleasure, I saw it that way, and it was stronger than me.” In 2006, “Portrait of Dora Maar with a Cat” was sold at Sotheby’s for $95.216 million. Its starting price was 50 million US dollars.
7. "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" Gustav Klimt $87.936 million(date of sale - 08.11.2006)
"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" Gustav Klimt By decision arbitration court the second portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, as well as “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I”, was removed in 2005 from the Austrian Belvedere Gallery, where it ended up in 1941 after expropriation by the Nazis, and transferred to the heiress of the Bloch-Bauer family, Maria Altmann. In addition, three more works by Klimt were returned to the Bloch-Bauer heiress: “ Birch Grove", "Apple Tree I" and "Houses in Unterach near Attersee". Maria Altmann proposed to the Austrian government to buy from her paintings that had been national treasure Austria, for 150 million US dollars, and the country began collecting the required amount. Negotiations were held about a loan from banks, and donations were collected from the population. However, after the price of the paintings rose to 300 million US dollars, the government abandoned negotiations. In 2006, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II” was sold at auction for $87.936 million.
8. "Triptych, 1976" Francis Bacon $86,281 million(date of sale - May, 2008)
"Triptych, 1976" Francis Bacon This work by the notorious British expressionist Francis Bacon, a descendant and full namesake of the great philosopher, became the most expensive painting sold in 2008. By the time this triptych was written, Bacon was already widely known, his paintings were exhibited in the largest museums in the world. However, he still led a marginal lifestyle and lived in a small two-room apartment in the Chelsea area of London.
“Triptych, 1976” is considered by experts to be the most significant work of F. Bacon in private hands. In May 2008, it was sold at Sotheby's for $86.281 million.
9. "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent van Gogh $82.5 million(date of sale - 05/15/1990)
"Portrait of Doctor Gachet" Vincent van Gogh This painting by Dutch impressionist Vincent Van Gogh suddenly became famous throughout the world after Japanese businessman Ryoei Saito paid $82.5 million for it at a Christie's auction in New York. The man was so attached to this painting that that after his death he wanted to be cremated along with the canvas. The businessman died in 1996, but the painting remained. The new owner of the painting remains unknown. Perhaps he fears that the same thing will happen to his property as with Klimt’s paintings. "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" may well be the subject of a restitution claim, since in 1937 it was confiscated by the Nazis from the Frankfurt Stadel Art Institute, and then resold to private collection, from where he came to Saito. Vincent Van Gogh painted two versions of the portrait of Dr. Gachet. The second, slightly different in color, is exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The painting was completed a few weeks before the artist's suicide in 1890.
10. "Pond with Water Lilies" by Claude Monet $80,451 million(date of sale - June, 2008)
"Pond with Water Lilies" by Claude Monet The painting was painted by the master of impressionism, the French artist Claude Monet, in 1919, shortly before he developed cataracts. However, there is an opinion that the special style of Monet’s works is, in principle, due to the fact that the artist had poor eyesight.
Some experts in the field of painting were surprised that this particular work by Monet was bought for a record price: after all, by the time the “Pond with Water Lilies” was created, the artist’s paintings began to become more and more monotonous, and the fashion for impressionism had long passed, giving way to cubism.
In 2008, this work was sold at Christie's. The buyer who paid 80.5 million US dollars for it remained unknown.
11. "False Start" Jasper Johns $80.0 million(date of sale - 10/12/2006)
"False Start" Jasper Johns This painting was created by American painter and sculptor Jasper Johns, working at the intersection of neo-Dadaism, abstract expressionism and pop art in 1959. It is currently the most expensive work by a living artist. In 2006, renowned art collector Kenneth Griffin paid $80 million for it.
12. "Bal at the Moulin de la Galette" Pierre Auguste Renoir $78.1 million(date of sale - 05/17/1990)
"Bal at the Moulin de la Galette" Pierre Auguste Renoir “Ball at the Cabaret de la Galette” was painted by the French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir in 1876. In May 1990, the painting was sold for $78 million at Sotheby's in New York to Ryu Saito, who bought this painting along with Van Gogh's Portrait of Doctor Gachet.
13. "Massacre of the Innocents" by Peter Paul Rubens $76.761 million(date of sale - 07/10/2002)
"Massacre of the Innocents" by Peter Paul Rubens Rubens's painting is the only one on this list that was not painted in the 19th century. It was bought at Sotheby's by Baron Kenneth Thomson in 2002.
14. "White Center" Mark Rothko $72.84 million(date of sale – 2007)
"White Center" Mark Rothko The painting was painted by Russian artist Mark Rothko, who developed his own artistic program and became one of America's most intelligent artists.
15. "Green Car Crash" by Andy Warhol $71.72 million(date of sale – 2007)
"Green Car Crash" by Andy Warhol In 1962, Warhol created a sensational series of canvases depicting, often in garish colors, cans of Coca-Cola and canned food, including - famous images Campbell's tomato soup cans, which became Andy Warhol's calling card. Radical art critics immediately drew attention to them, saying that the works young artist skillfully reveal vulgarity, emptiness and facelessness Western culture mass consumption. Subsequently, Warhol began to create more shocking works, such as images of idols made in an “acid” manner modern society: Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, Mao Zedong. There were rumors that as " finishing touch"Warhol asked his lovers to urinate on similar work. Warhol's scandalous reputation contributed to rising prices for works from this series.
16. "Portrait of the Artist without a Beard" by Vincent van Gogh $71.5 million(date of sale - 1998)
"Portrait of the Artist without a Beard" by Vincent van Gogh “Portrait of the Artist without a Beard” is one of the many self-portraits of Vincent Van Gogh. However, this is the only image of the artist without a beard. The painting, which was sold in 1998 for $71.5 million, was the most expensive at that time.
17. "Police Paper" (1955) Willem de Kooning $63.5 million(date of sale - 10/12/2006)
"Police Paper" (1955) Willem de Kooning 18. "Still life with jug and drapery" Paul Cezanne $60.205 million(date of sale - May 1999)
"Still Life with Jug and Drapery" Paul Cezanne This painting by Paul Cezanne, painted in 1893-1894, was sold in May 1999 at Sotheby's in New York to a representative of the Whitneys - famous philanthropist and producer.
19. "Suprematist composition" Kazimir Malevich $60.0 million(date of sale – 2008)
"Suprematist composition" Kazimir Malevich The painting was painted by the artist in 1916. In 1919-20 she exhibited in Moscow. In 1927, Malevich exhibited the painting at exhibitions in Warsaw, and later in Berlin, where the painting remained after Casimir left for the USSR in June 1927. The painting was later given to the German architect Hugo Hering, who sold it to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where it was kept for about 50 years.
Throughout the 20th century, the painting was repeatedly exhibited at various exhibitions, mainly European. After 17 years of legal disputes, the painting was returned to the artist's heirs.
On November 3, 2008, at Sotheby's auction in New York, the painting was sold to an unknown buyer for 60,002,500, becoming one of the most expensive paintings in history by a Russian artist.
20. "Wheat Field with Cypress Trees" by Vincent van Gogh $57.0 million(date of sale - 1993)
"Wheat field with cypress trees" Vincent van Gogh The painting was painted a year before the artist’s death in May 1899. At this time, Van Gogh was in a shelter for the mentally ill near San Remy, where he was trying to recover from mental illness. Van Gogh himself described the wheat field as “very yellow.” Indeed, Van Gogh tries to paint with thin strokes, using mainly yellow and blue colors. They say that a painting is fascinating, the longer you look at it, the more concentrated your gaze, the more new hidden details you can discover.
The Art Newspaper Russia presents the rating: the most dear artists Russia from the living. If you are still sure that Russian artists it was not and is not in the Western clip, we are ready to argue with that. The language of numbers.
The conditions were simple: each living artist could be represented by only one, his most expensive work. When compiling the rating, not only the results of public auctions were taken into account, but also the most high-profile private sales. The authors of the rating were guided by the principle “if something sells loudly, then someone needs it,” and therefore appreciated the work of marketers and press managers of artists who brought record private sales to the public. Important note: the rating is based solely on financial indicators; if it were based on the exhibition activity of artists, it would look somewhat different. External sources resources were used for analytics Artnet.com, Artprice.com, Skatepress.com And Artinvestment.ru.
The US dollar was chosen as the currency for the world ranking; the British pound sterling was taken as the equivalent of sales of Russian artists (since 90% of domestic sales took place in London in this currency). The remaining 10% of works sold in US dollars and euros were recalculated at the exchange rate at the time of the transaction, as a result of which some positions changed places. In addition to the actual cost of the work, data was collected on the total capitalization of artists (the number of top works sold at auction over all years), on the place of a contemporary artist in the ranking of artists of all times, on the place of the participant’s most expensive work among all works sold by other authors, and also about nationality and country of residence. Statistics on repeat sales of each artist also contain important information as an objective indicator of investment
attractiveness.
Last year, 2013, significantly changed the position of contemporary artists in the international sales rankings. Of the top 50 most expensive works of art last season, 16 modern ones were sold - record number(For comparison, 17 works were sold from 2010 to 2012, with only one sale in the 20th century). The demand for living artists is partly identical to the demand for all contemporary art, partly to the cynical understanding that the capitalization of assets after their death will invariably increase.
Among the Russian participants, the brothers turned out to be the most respectable Sergey And Alexey Tkachev(b. 1922 and 1925), the youngest - Anatoly Osmolovsky(b. 1969). The question is who will be new Jean-Michel Basquiat, while open. In the sales of our artists, clear classes of buyers are visible: the leaders are bought by foreign collectors and Russian oligarchs, places from 10th to 30th are provided by emigrant collectors, and the conditional bottom of the top 50 is our future, young collectors who have entered the market with “new » money.
1. Ilya Kabakov
It seems that in general he is the main Russian artist (which does not prevent Kabakov, who was born in Dnepropetrovsk, from describing himself as Ukrainian), the founding father of Moscow conceptualism (one of), the author of the term and practice of “total installation”. Since 1988 he has lived and worked in New York. He works in collaboration with his wife, Emilia Kabakova, which is why the title should look like “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov,” but since Ilya Iosifovich became known earlier than Ilya and Emilia, then let it remain so. The works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, MoMA, Kolodzei Art Foundation(USA), etc.
Year of birth: 1933
Work: "Beetle". 1982
Date of sale: 02/28/2008
Price (GBP)1: 2,932,500
Total capitalization (GBP): 10,686,000
Place: 1
Average Job Cost (GBP): 117,429
Number of repeat sales: 12
2. Erik Bulatov
Using techniques that would later be called social art, he combined figurative painting with text in his works. IN Soviet era successful children's book illustrator. Since 1989 he has lived and worked in New York, and since 1992 in Paris. The first Russian artist with a personal exhibition at the Pompidou Center. Works are kept in collections Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Center Pompidou, Ludwig Museum in Cologne, etc., are included in the collections of the Foundation Dina Verni, Viktor Bondarenko, Vyacheslav Kantor, Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.
Year of birth: 1933
Work: “Glory to the CPSU.” 1975
Date of sale: 02/28/2008
Price (GBP)1: 1,084,500
Total capitalization (GBP): 8,802,000
Place: 2
Average job cost (GBP): 163,000
Number of repeat sales: 11
3. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid
The creators of Sots Art - an ironic movement in unofficial art that parodies the symbolism and techniques of officialdom. Since 1978 they have lived in New York. Until the mid-2000s they worked in pairs. As an art project, they organized the “sale of souls” of famous artists through an auction (soul Andy Warhol since then it has been owned by a Moscow artist Alena Kirtsova). Works are in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, and in the collections Shalva Breus, Daria Zhukova And Roman Abramovich etc.
Year of birth: 1943, 1945
Work: “Meeting of Solzhenitsyn and Böll at Rostropovich’s dacha.” 1972
Date of sale: 04/23/2010
Price (GBP)1: 657,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 3,014,000
Place: 7
Average job cost (GBP): 75,350
Number of repeat sales: 3
former comar&melamid artstudio archive
4. Semyon Faibisovich
A photorealist artist who remains the most precise realist even now, when Semyon Natanovich is less interested in painting than in journalism. He exhibited on Malaya Gruzinskaya, where in 1985 he was noticed by New York dealers and collectors. Since 1987, regularly exhibited in the USA and Western Europe. An active supporter of the repeal of the law on the promotion of homosexuality in Russia. Lives and works in Moscow. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow House of Photography, museums in Germany, Poland, the USA, and are included in the collections Daria Zhukova And Roman Abramovich, Igor Markin, Igor
Tsukanova.
Year of birth: 1949
Work: “Soldiers” (from the “Station Stations” series). 1989
Date of sale: 10/13/2007
Price (GBP)1: 311,200
Total capitalization (GBP): 3,093,000
Place: 6
Average Job Cost (GBP): 106,655
Number of repeat sales: 7
5. Grigory (Grisha) Bruskin
The main character of the first and last Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988, where his work Fundamental Lexicon became the top lot (£220 thousand). At the invitation of the German government, he created monumental triptych for the reconstructed Reichstag in Berlin. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the category “Project of the Year” for the exhibition Time H at the Multimedia Art Museum. Lives and works in New York and Moscow. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, and the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, MoMA, the Museum of Jewish Culture (New York), etc., are part of the collections of the Queen of Spain Sofia, Peter Aven, Shalva Breus, Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin, Milos Forman.
Year of birth: 1945
Work: “Logies. Part 1". 1987
Date of sale: 07.11.2000
Price (GBP)1: 424,000
Total capitalization (GBP): 720,000
Place: 15
Average job cost (GBP): 24,828
Number of repeat sales: 5
6. Oleg Tselkov
One of the most famous artists of the sixties, in the 1960s he began and still continues a series of paintings depicting rough, as if sculpted from clay, human faces (or figures), painted with bright aniline colors. Since 1977 he has lived in Paris. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, etc., and are included in the collections Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arthur Miller, Igor Tsukanov. The largest private collection of Tselkov's works in Russia belongs to Evgeniy Yevtushenko.
Year of birth: 1934
Work: "Boy with balloons" 1957
Date of sale: 11/26/2008
Price (GBP)1: 238,406
Total capitalization (GBP): 4,232,000
Place: 5
Average job cost (GBP): 53,570
Number of repeat sales: 14
7. Oscar Rabin
Leader of the “Lianozov group” (Moscow nonconformist artists of the 1950s-1960s), organizer of the scandalous Bulldozer exhibition 1974. He was the first in the Soviet Union to sell works privately. In 1978 he was deprived Soviet citizenship. Lives and works in Paris. In 2006 he became a laureate of the Innovation Prize for his contribution to art. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, and are included in the collections of Alexander Glezer, Vyacheslav Kantor, Alexander Kronik, Iveta and Tamaz Manasherov, Evgeny Nutovich, Aslan Chekhoev.
Year of birth: 1928
Work: “The City and the Moon (Socialist
city)". 1959
Date of sale: 04/15/2008
Price (GBP)1: 171,939
Total capitalization (GBP): 5,397,000
Place: 3
Average job cost (GBP): 27,964
Number of repeat sales: 45
8. Zurab Tsereteli
The largest representative already monumental art. Author of the monument to Peter I in Moscow and the monument Good conquers Evil in front of the UN building in New York. Founder of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, President Russian Academy arts, creator of the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, operating at the above-mentioned academy. Sculptures of Zurab Tsereteli, in addition to Russia, adorn Brazil, Great Britain, Georgia, Spain, Lithuania, USA, France and Japan.
Year of birth: 1934
Work: “Dream of Athos”
Date of sale: 12/01/2009
Price (GBP)1: 151,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 498,000
Place: 19
Average job cost (GBP): 27,667
Number of repeat sales: 4
9. Viktor Pivovarov
One of the founders of Moscow conceptualism. Like Kabakov, the inventor of the concept album genre; like Kabakov, Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev - a successful illustrator of children's books who collaborated with the magazines "Murzilka" and " Funny pictures" Since 1982 he has lived and worked in Prague. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, and the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkina, Kolodzei Art Foundation(USA), in the collections of Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.
Year of birth: 1937
Work: “Triptych with a snake.” 2000
Date of sale: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 145,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 482,000
Place: 20
Average job cost (GBP): 17,852
Number of repeat sales: 6
10. Alexander Melamid
Half of the creative tandem Komar - Melamid, which broke up in 2003. Together with Vitaly Komar, participant Bulldozer exhibition(where they died Double self-portrait, a seminal work of Sots Art). Since 1978 he has lived and worked in New York. About what famous meetings there are works by Melamid, created by him independently, there is no information.
Year of birth: 1945
Work: “Cardinal José Saraiva Martins.” 2007
Date of sale: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 145,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 145,000
Place: 36
Average job cost (GBP): 145,000
Number of repeat sales: —
11. Francisco Infante-Arana
The owner of perhaps the most extensive list of exhibitions among Russian artists. Member of the kinetic group "Movement", in the 1970s he found his own version of photo performance, or “artifact” - geometric forms integrated into the natural landscape.
Year of birth: 1943
Work: “Building a sign.” 1984
Date of sale: 05/31/2006
Price (GBP)1: 142,400
Total capitalization (GBP): 572,000
Place: 17
Average job cost (GBP): 22,000
Number of repeat sales: —
12. Vladimir Nemukhin
Metaphysician. A classic of the second wave of Russian avant-garde, a member of the “Lianozov group”, one of the participants in the Bulldozer exhibition, curator (or initiator) of important exhibitions of the 1980s, when the unofficial Soviet
art was just becoming aware of itself.
Year of birth: 1925
Work: “Unfinished Solitaire.” 1966
Date of sale: 04/26/2006
Price (GBP)1: 240,000
Total capitalization (GBP): 4,338,000
Place: 4
Average Job Cost (GBP): 36,454
Number of repeat sales: 26
13. Vladimir Yankilevsky
Surrealist, one of the main names of post-war Moscow unofficial art, creator of monumental philosophical polyptychs.
Year of birth: 1938
Work: “Triptych No. 10. Anatomy of the soul. II." 1970
Date of sale: 04/23/2010
Price (GBP)1: 133,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 754,000
Place: 14
Average job cost (GBP): 12,780
Number of repeat sales: 7
14. Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky
Scenic project Paintings to order, which they began in the hopeless 1990s for painting, received what it deserved in the 2000s. The duet became popular with collectors, and one painting ended up in the collection of the Pompidou Center.
Year of birth: 1963, 1964
Work: "Night Fitness". 2004
Date of sale: 06/22/2007
Price (GBP)1: 132,000
Total capitalization (GBP): 1,378,000
Place: 11
Average job cost (GBP): 26,500
Number of repeat sales: 4
15. Sergey Volkov
One of the heroes of perestroika art, known for his expressive paintings with thoughtful statements. Soviet auction participant Sotheby's in 1988.
Year of birth: 1956
Work: “Double Vision.
Triptych"
Date of sale: 05/31/2007
Price (GBP)1: 132,000
Total capitalization (GBP): 777,000
Place: 12
Average job cost (GBP): 38,850
Number of repeat sales: 4
16. AES + F (Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeniy Svyatsky, Vladimir Fridkes)
AES projects were distinguished by their good presentation in the slack 1990s, which is why they were remembered. Now they are making large animated murals that are broadcast on dozens of screens.
Year of birth: 1955, 1958, 1957, 1956
Work: “Warrior No. 4”
Date of sale: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP)1: 120,500
Total capitalization (GBP): 305,000
Place: 27
Average job cost (GBP): 30,500
Number of repeat sales: —
17. Lev Tabenkin
A sculptor and painter with a sculptural vision, as if sculpting his heroes from clay.
Year of birth: 1952
Work: " Jazz orchestra" 2004
Date of sale: 06/30/2008
Price (GBP)1: 117,650
Total capitalization (GBP): 263,000
Place: 28
Average job cost (GBP): 26,300
Number of repeat sales: 7
18. Mikhail (Misha Shaevich) Brusilovsky
Sverdlovsk surrealist, author of meaningful allegories.
Year of birth: 1931
Work: "Football". 1965
Date of sale: 11/28/2006
Price (GBP)1: 108,000
Total capitalization (GBP): 133,000
Place: 38
Average job cost (GBP): 22,167
Number of repeat sales: —
19. Olga Bulgakova
One of the main figures of the intelligentsia “carnival” painting of the Brezhnev era. Corresponding Member
Russian Academy of Arts.
Year of birth: 1951
Work: “Dream of Red
bird." 1988
Date of sale: 11/22/2010
Price (GBP)1: 100,876
Total capitalization (GBP): 219,000
Place: 31
Average job cost (GBP): 36,500
Number of repeat sales: —
20. Alexander Ivanov
An abstract artist who is known primarily as a businessman, collector and creator of the Faberge Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany).
Year of birth: 1962
Work: "Love". 1996
Date of sale: 06/05/2013
Price (GBP)1: 97,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 201,000
Place: 33
Average Job Cost (GBP): 50,250
Number of repeat sales: —
21. Ivan Chuikov
An independent wing of Moscow pictorial conceptualism. Author of a series of paintings-objects Windows. Somehow in the 1960s he burned everything paintings, which is why gallery owners are still sad.
Year of birth: 1935
Work: "Untitled". 1986
Date of sale: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP)1: 96,500
Total capitalization (GBP): 1,545,000
Place: 10
Average Job Cost (GBP): 36,786
Number of repeat sales: 8
22. Konstantin Zvezdochetov
In his youth, a member of the Mukhomor group, which called themselves “the fathers of the “new wave” in the Soviet Union” -
with good reason; with the onset of creative maturity, participant in the Venice Biennale and Kassel
documenta. Researcher and connoisseur of the visual in Soviet grassroots culture.
Year of birth: 1958
Product: "Perdo-K-62M"
Date of sale: 06/13/2008
Price (GBP)1: 92,446
Total capitalization (GBP): 430,000
Place: 22
Average job cost (GBP): 22,632
Number of repeat sales: 2
23. Natalya Nesterova
One of the main art stars of the Brezhnev stagnation. Loved by collectors for its textured, painterly style.
Year of birth: 1944
Work: “The Miller and His
son". 1969
Date of sale: 06/15/2007
Price (GBP)1: 92,388
Total capitalization (GBP): 1,950,000
Place: 9
Average job cost (GBP): 20,526
Number of repeat sales: 15
24. Maxim Kantor
An expressionist painter who performed in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1997 - as well as a publicist and writer, author of a philosophical and satirical novel Drawing tutorial about the ins and outs of the Russian art world.
Year of birth: 1957
Work: “The Structure of Democracy.” 2003
Date of sale: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 87,650
Total capitalization (GBP): 441,000
Place: 21
Average Job Cost (GBP): 44,100
Number of repeat sales: 2
25. Andrey Sidersky
Creates paintings in the style of psy-art he invented. Translated works of Carlos Castaneda and Richard Bach into Russian.
Year of birth: 1960
Work: “Triptych”
Date of sale: 12/04/2009
Price (GBP)1: 90,000
Total capitalization (GBP): 102,000
Place: 42
Average job cost (GBP): 51,000
Number of repeat sales: —
26. Valery Koshlyakov
Known for paintings with architectural motifs. The largest representative of the “South Russian wave”. Often uses cardboard boxes, bags, and tape. The first exhibition with his participation was held in public toilet in Rostov-on-Don in 1988.
Year of birth: 1962
Work: "Versailles". 1993
Date of sale: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP)1: 72,500
Total capitalization (GBP): 346,000
Place: 26
Average job cost (GBP): 21,625
Number of repeat sales: 8
27. Alexey Sundukov
Laconic, leaden-colored paintings about the “leaden abominations” of everyday Russian life.
Year of birth: 1952
Work: “The Essence of Being.” 1988
Date of sale: 04/23/2010
Price (GBP)1: 67,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 255,000
Place: 29
Average job cost (GBP): 25,500
Number of repeat sales: 1
28. Igor Novikov
Belongs to the generation of Moscow nonconformist artists of the late 1980s.
Year of birth: 1961
Work: “The Kremlin Breakfast, or Moscow for Sale.” 2009
Date of sale: 03.12.2010
Price (GBP)1: 62,092
Total capitalization (GBP): 397,000
Place: 24
Average job cost (GBP): 15,880
Number of repeat sales: 3
29. Vadim Zakharov
Archivist of Moscow conceptualism. The author of spectacular installations on profound topics, represented Russia at the Venice
biennial
Year of birth: 1959
Work: "Baroque". 1986-1994
Date of sale: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 61,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 243,000
Place: 30
Average job cost (GBP): 20,250
Number of repeat sales: —
30. Yuri Krasny
Author art programs for children with special needs.
Year of birth: 1925
Work: “The Smoker”
Date of sale: 04/04/2008Price (GBP)1: 59,055
Total capitalization (GBP): 89,000
Place: 44
Average job cost (GBP): 11,125
Number of repeat sales: 8
31. Sergey and Alexey Tkachev
Classics of late Soviet impressionism, students of Arkady Plastov, famous for their paintings from the life of the Russian village.
Year of birth: 1922, 1925
Work: “In the Field.” 1954
Date of sale: 01.12.2010
Price (GBP)1: 58,813
Total capitalization (GBP): 428,000
Place: 23
Average job cost (GBP): 22,526
Number of repeat sales: 4
32. Svetlana Kopystyanskaya
Known for installations from paintings. After the Moscow auction Sotheby's in 1988 he works abroad.
Year of birth: 1950
Work: “Seascape”
Date of sale: 10/13/2007
Price (GBP)1: 57,600
Total capitalization (GBP): 202,000
Place: 32
Average job cost (GBP): 22,444
Number of repeat sales: 2
33. Boris Orlov
A sculptor close to social art. He is famous for his works in the ironic “imperial” style and his masterful craftsmanship of bronze busts and bouquets.
Year of birth: 1941
Work: "Sailor". 1976
Date of sale: 10/17/2013
Price (GBP)1: 55,085
Total capitalization (GBP): 174,000
Place: 34
Average job cost (GBP): 17,400
Number of repeat sales: 1
34. Vyacheslav Kalinin
The author of expressive paintings from the life of the urban lower classes and drinking bohemia.
Year of birth: 1939
Artwork: “Self-portrait with a hang glider”
Date of sale: 11/25/2012
Price (GBP)1: 54,500
Total capitalization (GBP): 766,000
Place: 13
Average job cost (GBP): 12,767
Number of repeat sales: 24
35. Evgeny Semenov
Known for his photo series with Down's disease patients playing the roles of gospel characters.
Year of birth: 1960
Work: "Heart". 2009
Date of sale: 06/29/2009
Price (GBP)1: 49,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 49,000
Place: 48
Average job cost (GBP): 49,000
Number of repeat sales: —
36. Yuri Cooper
He became famous for his nostalgic canvases with old household items. Author of the play Twelve paintings from the life of the artist, staged at the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov.
Year of birth: 1940
Work: “Window. Dassa Street, 56." 1978
Date of sale: 06/09/2010
Price (GBP)1: 49,250
Total capitalization (GBP): 157,000
Place: 35
Average job cost (GBP): 2,754
Number of repeat sales: 14
37. Alexander Kosolapov
A socialist artist whose work has become a target for all sorts of attacks. During the Art Moscow 2005 fair, one of his works was destroyed by a religious fanatic with a hammer.
Year of birth: 1943
Work: "Marlboro Malevich." 1987
Date of sale: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP)1: 48,500
Total capitalization (GBP): 510,000
Place: 18
Average job cost (GBP): 15,938
Number of repeat sales: 1
38. Leonid Sokov
A leading sculptor of Sots Art who combined folklore with politics. Among famous works Device for determining nationality by nose shape.
Year of birth: 1941
Work: “A bear hitting a sickle with a hammer.” 1996
Date of sale: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP)1: 48,500
Total capitalization (GBP): 352,000
Place: 25
Average job cost (GBP): 13,538
Number of repeat sales: 7
39. Vladimir Ovchinnikov
One of the patriarchs of unofficial art in Leningrad. Orthodox version of Fernando Botero.
Year of birth: 1941
Work: “Angels and Railway Tracks.” 1977
Date of sale: 04/17/2007
Price (GBP)1: 47,846
Total capitalization (GBP): 675,000
Place: 16
Average job cost (GBP): 15,341
Number of repeat sales: —
40. Konstantin Khudyakov
Author of paintings on religious subjects. Currently working in digital art technology.
Year of birth: 1945
Work: " last supper" 2007
Date of sale: 02/18/2011
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total capitalization (GBP): 97,000
Place: 43
Average job cost (GBP): 32,333
Number of repeat sales: —
41. Ernst Neizvestny
An icon of Soviet nonconformism - since he openly objected to Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev at the vernissage legendary exhibition to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists. After that, he made a monument at Khrushchev’s grave and a monument in front of the UN European headquarters.
Year of birth: 1925
Work: “Untitled”
Date of sale: 06/08/2010
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total capitalization (GBP): 2,931,000
Place: 8
Average job cost (GBP): 24,839
Number of repeat sales: 13
42. Anatoly Osmolovsky
One of the main figures of Moscow actionism of the 1990s, art theorist, curator, publisher and head of the Baza Institute research and educational program, laureate of the first Kandinsky Prize.
Year of birth: 1969
Work: “Bread” (from the “Pagans” series). 2009
Date of sale: 04/23/2010
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total capitalization (GBP): 83,000
Place: 46
Average job cost (GBP): 11,857
Number of repeat sales: —
43. Dmitry Vrubel
Photorealist painter, known mainly for his painting of Brezhnev and Honecker kissing (more precisely, thanks to the author’s reproduction on the Berlin Wall).
Year of birth: 1960
Work: “Fraternal kiss (triptych).” 1990
Date of sale: 11/25/2013
Price (GBP)1: 45,000
Place: 40
Average job cost (GBP): 16,429
Number of repeat sales: 2
44. Leonid Lamm
The author of installations that combine motifs of the Russian avant-garde and scenes of Soviet prison life. Lives in America. In the 1970s, he spent three years in prisons and camps on false charges.
Year of birth: 1928
Work: “Apple II” (from the “Seventh Heaven” series). 1974-1986
Date of sale: 12/16/2009
Price (GBP)1: 43,910
Total capitalization (GBP): 115,000
Place: 41
Average job cost (GBP): 14,375
Number of repeat sales: —
Irina Nakhova’s picturesque installations of the 1980s in her apartment can claim authorship in the “total” genre.
45. Irina Nakhova
Muse of Moscow conceptualism. Winner of the 2013 Kandinsky Prize for “Project of the Year”. In 2015 at the 56th Venice Biennale
will represent Russia.
Year of birth: 1955
Work: "Triptych". 1983
Date of sale: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP)1: 38,900
Total capitalization (GBP): 85,000
Place: 45
Average job cost (GBP): 17,000
Number of repeat sales: 1
46. Katya Filippova
Avant-garde clothing designer who became famous during perestroika. She decorated the windows of the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette, and was friends with Pierre Cardin.
Year of birth: 1958
“Work: Marina Ladynina” (from the “Russian Hollywood” series)
Date of sale: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP)1: 38,900
Total capitalization (GBP): 39,000
Place: 49
Average job cost (GBP): 39,000
Number of repeat sales: —
47. Boris Zaborov
theater artist, book illustrator. In 1980 he emigrated to Paris and worked on costumes for the Comedy Française.
Year of birth: 1935
Work: “Participant”. 1981
Date of sale: 10/30/2006
Price (GBP)1: 36,356
Total capitalization (GBP): 67,000
Place: 47
Average job cost (GBP): 13,400
Number of repeat sales: 2
48. Rostislav Lebedev
Classic socialist artist, colleague (and workshop neighbor) of Boris Orlov and Dmitry Prigov. Creatively transformed visual propaganda from Soviet times.
Year of birth: 1946
Work: “Russian Fairy Tale”. 1949
Date of sale: 06/03/2008
Price (GBP)1: 34,000
Total capitalization (GBP): 122,000
Place: 39
Average job cost (GBP): 24,400
Number of repeat sales: 2
49. Andrey Filippov
Belongs to the Moscow conceptual school. Author of paintings and installations united by the theme “Moscow - the Third Rome”. Since 2009, together with Yuri Albert and Victor Skersis, he has been a member of the Cupid group.
Year of birth: 1959
Work: "Seven Feet Under the Keel." 1988
Date of sale: 05/31/2006
Price (GBP)1: 33,600
Total capitalization (GBP): 137,000
Place: 37
Average job cost (GBP): 12,455
Number of repeat sales: 3
50. Vladimir Shinkarev
The founder and ideologist of the Leningrad art group “Mitki”, in whose novel Mitki this term was first used. The novel was written out of boredom while working in the boiler room.
Year of birth: 1954
Work: “Lenin Square I”. 1999
Date of sale: 06/30/2008
Price (GBP)1: 32,450
Total capitalization (GBP): 33,000
Place: 50
Average job cost (GBP): 16,500
Number of repeat sales: —
Sales vs exhibitions
Market recognition and professional community recognition seem to many different things, however, the division into “commercial” and “non-commercial” artists is very arbitrary. Thus, of the Russian artists who have exhibited over the past ten years at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art (and this is the pinnacle professional career), seven units (if you count by person, then 11 people) were included in our rating. And the top 10 artists from the rating either exhibited at the Venice Biennale before, or had personal exhibitions V major museums. As for those wonderful artists who were not included in the rating, their absence or not very outstanding sales can be explained simply and banally. Collectors are conservative and even from the most avant-garde creators they prefer to buy paintings (paintings, objects similar to paintings or photographs) or sculpture (or objects similar to sculpture). There are no record performances or giant installations(installations are usually bought by museums, but the price is the museum price, with a discount). That is why such stars as Andrey Monastyrsky, Oleg Kulik, Pavel Pepperstein(until recently I mainly did graphics, and graphics are a priori cheaper than painting) or, for example, Nikolay Polissky, whose grandiose designs have not yet found any understanding collectors.
In addition, the market is also conservative because recognition comes slowly - note that in the top 10 all artists were born in 1950 or older. That is, promising participants of the biennale still have everything ahead of them.
