1917: 100 YEARS ON – REFLECTIONS ON ART IN THE SOVIET UNION. THEN AND NOW ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION with IVAN LINDSAY, JOHN MILNER AND MARGY KINMONTH Monday 10th October 5.30-6.30pm At The Russian Bookshop, Waterstones, 203-206 Piccadilly, London W1J 9HD The Russian Bookshop at Waterstones and Russian Art and Culture are delighted to present a roundtable
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Tvoya Istoriya, the Russian Federal project about people in Russian culture published an interview with Ivan Lindsay to learn more about his new book, Masterpieces of Soviet paintings and sculpture, which is to be launched at Waterstones Bookshop in Piccadilly at a book launch/panel discussion on 10th October: – Ivan Lindsay — the author of
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Several years in the making,  ‘Masterpieces of Soviet painting and sculpture’ has now been published. The book is to be formally launched at Waterstones in Piccadilly in London in October but the English version is already available on Amazon: – https://www.amazon.com/Masterpieces-Soviet-Painting-Sculpture-Lavery/dp/1910787019/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473871923&sr=8-1&keywords=masterpieces+of+soviet This handsome coffee-table sized book is published in separate English and Russian versions, gives
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The Maastricht Fair (TEFAF) this year was as spectacular as the press made it out to be. I hadn’t been for a couple of years and it had been so hyped up I expected to be disappointed… but I wasn’t. Everywhere you turned there was another stand full of masterpieces that enticed you in to
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  The Korzhev retrospective is running at the Tretyakov until June 14th.  Herewith a review of the show on the Russian Art and Culture website:- http://www.russianartandculture.com/review-geli-korzhev-exhibition-at-the-tretyakov-gallery-by-ivan-lindsay/

Normally title of an artwork passes to a new owner upon the seller’s receipt of agreed funds. The seller presents an invoice to the buyer showing he has a clear title to a certain object and that he has agreed to sell at a certain price. However, a court case in the news at the
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An exhibition titled “I have a right” featuring the works of the late Geli Mikhailovich Korzhev is due to open at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on March 18th and run till June 14th.  This is part of a series of exhibitions that the Tretyakov is devoting to the post-war ‘Severe Style’ artists. Also in
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The art market is entering one its cyclical periods of adjustment. As we shake off the lethargy of the Christmas holiday period and start to re-engage with the workplace the world feels a less certain place. Dangers seem to lurk around every corner including a slowing China, a recovery in the USA that is already
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The Rybolovlev/Bouvier saga has now spilled over from the art press into mainstream publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Town and Country Magazine have just published an interview with Dmitry Rybolovlev, a link to which is listed at the end of this article. The details of the case are being
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Amadeo Modigliani’s ‘Reclining Nude,’ or ‘Nu Couche,’ sold on Monday at Christie’s for US$170m launching Modigliani into the US$100m club, which includes Picasso, Bacon and Giacometti (all three times), Munch and Warhol. The painting depicts an attractive and languid nude lying down completely at ease enjoying the flattering intensity of the artist’s gaze and the
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