Art sales aren't usually raucous affairs. But last week's Russian-art auction at Sotheby's in London was an exception. In a heated battle for one painting, a private Russian buyer playfully ...

Art Newspaper editor Cristina Ruiz said Monday that Abramovich, a former oil magnate who owns London’s Chelsea soccer team, had not been known as a major art-market player.

Art Moscow, one of Russia's most prominent annual showcases of contemporary art, opened last month with an exhibit of sketches from the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil tycoon whose ...

Ron Pollard cradles an oil painting he and others believe was painted by Ukrainian artist Aleksandra Ekster. Photo by Samuel Shaw. Denver-based collector and architectural photographer Ron Pollard, 64 ...

The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years. The Rising ...

Russian artist Nikas Safronov said the Kremlin commissioned him to create a painting for President Donald Trump in hopes of improving relations between Russia and the U.S.

In 2023, however, sales of works by Russian artists within Russia itself increased by more than 125 percent, exceeding $25 million, according to ARTInvestment, a Russian market analysis firm.

The Museum of Russian Art offers a pair of exhibits responding to the war in Ukraine, one by Ukrainian-American artist Elena Kalman, the other from a Soviet-era Russian artist who foresaw an ...

The Kherson Art Museum has identified 100 paintings allegedly looted by Russian forces amid the war in ... and a 1967 oil painting by Yefrem Zverkov—a founder of the “strict style” movement ...

Russian art curators have reportedly led raids on approximately 30 Ukrainian museums since last years invasion, guiding the pilfering of ancient artifacts from the war-torn country. Across Ukraine ...

Below Leon Hushcha’s “The Wounded,” hangs another painting called “Blue Sky on Golden Wheat Fields.” The painting recalls the Ukrainian flag.