Mission to Moscow

Important Sales of Russian Art (2000-2007)
Russian art, traditional and contemporary
2000 Sales Totals
Christie's: $5.6 million
Sotheby's: $6 million

2007 Sales Totals
Christie's: $146 million
Sotheby's: $181 million

From left:
May 2000: Malevich, "Suprematist Composition" (1919-20), $17 million, Phillips

February 2004: Faberge eggs from the $100 million Forbes collection, Sotheby's

April 2006: Vereshchagin, "Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg" (1876), $1.5 million, Sotheby's

Courtesy Phillips; Sotheby's; Sotheby's; Sotheby's