Amazing paintings by contemporary artists. Modern Russian artists worth a closer look

Today, contemporary painting has gained incredible popularity, therefore it has become known not only for its tendency to push boundaries and explore new means of expression, but also for record sales in the contemporary art market over the past few years. Moreover, artists from almost all over the world, from America to Asia, enjoy success. Next, you will find out whose names are represented by the best contemporary painting in the world, who is he, the most expensive contemporary artist, and who is a little short of this title.

The most expensive contemporary artists

Among the myriad of names that modern painting has, the paintings of only certain artists enjoy exceptional success. Among them, the most expensive paintings were the famous neo-expressionist and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who, however, died at the age of 27. In our list, you will see only the first seven of those wealthy artists who are alive to this day.

Bryce Marden

The works of this American author are quite difficult to classify and bring to a single art direction, although he is often referred to as representatives of either minimalism or abstractionism. But unlike artists in these styles, whose paintings seem to have never been touched, Marden's contemporary painting retains palette knife strokes and other traces of his work. One of those who influenced his work is considered to be another contemporary artist Jasper Johns, whose name you will meet later.

Zeng Fanzhi

This contemporary artist is one of the main figures of the Chinese art scene today. It was his work called "The Last Supper", created based on the famous work of Leonardo da Vinci, was sold for 23.3 million dollars and became the most expensive painting that modern Asian painting can boast of. Also known are the works of the artist "Self-portrait", the triptych "Hospital" and paintings from the series "Masks".

In the 1990s, his painting style often changed and eventually moved from expressionism to symbolism.

Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a world-famous Scottish contemporary artist whose work is inspired by the theme of magical realism. Many of his works tend to disorient the viewer, even when they depict recognizable images such as figures, trees, and buildings.

In 2015, his painting "Swamped" managed to break the record and become the most expensive painting by contemporary artists from Scotland, being sold at auction for 25.9 million. Doig's paintings "Architect's House in the Hollow", "White Canoe", "Reflection", "Roadside Diner" and others are also popular.

Christopher Wool

Contemporary artist Christopher Wool explores various post-conceptual ideas in his work. The artist's most famous modern paintings are block inscriptions depicted in black on a white canvas.

Such paintings by contemporary artists cause a lot of controversy and dissatisfaction among adherents of traditional painting, but, one way or another, one of Wool's works - "Apocalypse" - brought him 26 million dollars. Wool does not think about the titles of the paintings for a long time, but names them according to the inscriptions: “Blue Fool”, “Troubles”, etc.

Jasper Johns

Contemporary artist Jasper Johns is known for his rebellious attitude towards abstract expressionism, which dominated the painting scene early in his career. Moreover, he works by creating costly canvases with flags, license plates, numbers and other well-known symbols that already have a clear meaning and do not need to be deciphered.

By the way, the most expensive paintings by contemporary artists include the work of the American "Flag", sold at auction in 2010 for $ 28 million. You can also look at the works "Three Flags", "False Start", "From 0 to 9", "Target with Four Faces" and many others.

Gerhard Richter

This contemporary artist from Germany, like many painters at the beginning of his career, studied realistic academic painting, but later became interested in more progressive art.

In the author's work, one can see the influence of many art trends of the 20th century, such as abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism and conceptualism, but at the same time, Richter retained a skeptical attitude towards all established artistic and philosophical beliefs, being sure that modern painting is dynamics and search. The artist's works include "Land of meadows", "Reading", "1024 colors", "Wall", etc.

Jeff Koons

And finally, here he is - the most expensive contemporary artist in the world. American Jeff Koons works in the neo-pop style and is known for his catchy, kitsch and defiant creativity.

He is mainly known as the author of a huge number of modern sculptures, some of which were exhibited in Versailles itself. But also among the artist's works there are paintings for which special connoisseurs are ready to give millions of dollars: "Liberty Bell", "Auto", "Girl with a Dolphin and Monkey", "Saddle" and others.

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The Art Newspaper Russia presents a rating: the most expensive living artists of Russia. If you are still sure that there were no Russian artists in the western cage and there is not, we are ready to argue with that. The language of numbers.

The conditions were simple: each of the living artists could be represented by only one, their 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 was based on the exhibition activity of artists, it would look a little different. Resources served as external sources for analytics Artnet.com, Artprice.com, Skatepress.com And Artinvestment.ru.

The US dollar was chosen as the currency of the world rating, and the British pound sterling was taken as the equivalent of the 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 were collected on the total capitalization of artists (the number of top works sold at auction for all years), on the place of a contemporary artist in the ranking of artists of all time, on the place of the most expensive work of a participant among all sold works of other authors, and also about nationality and country of residence. Important information is also contained in the statistics of repeated sales of each artist as an objective indicator of investment
attractiveness.

Last year, 2013, significantly changed the positions of contemporary artists in the international sales ranking. Of the top 50 most expensive works of art, 16 modern ones were sold last season - a record number (for comparison, 17 works were sold from 2010 to 2012, only one sale falls on the twentieth 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 most respected were the brothers Sergey And Alexey Tkachevy(b. 1922 and 1925), the youngest - Anatoly Osmolovsky(b. 1969). The question is who will be the new Jean-Michel Basquiat while open. Clear classes of buyers are visible in the sales of our artists: 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 with “new » money.

1. Ilya Kabakov
It seems that in general the main Russian artist (which does not prevent Kabakov, who was born in Dnepropetrovsk, from painting himself Ukrainian), the founding father of Moscow conceptualism (one of them), the author of the term and practice of “total installation”. Since 1988 he has been living and working in New York. He works in collaboration with his wife, Emilia Kabakov, 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 stay that way. Works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, MoMA, Kolodzei Art Foundation(USA), etc.
Year of birth: 1933
Product: "Beetle". 1982
Date of sale: 28.02.2008
Price (GBP)1: 2,932,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 10,686,000
Seat: 1
Average cost per job (GBP): 117,429
Number of repeat sales: 12

2. Eric Bulatov
Using techniques that would later be called Sots Art, he combined figurative painting with text in his works. In Soviet times, a successful illustrator of children's books. Since 1989 he has been living and working in New York, since 1992 in Paris. The first Russian artist with a solo exhibition at the Pompidou Center. The works are kept in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, etc., are included in the collections of the Foundation Dina Verny, Victor Bondarenko, Vyacheslav Kantor, Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.
Year of birth: 1933
Artwork: "Glory to the CPSU". 1975
Date of sale: 28.02.2008
Price (GBP)1: 1,084,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 8,802,000
Seat: 2
Average cost per job (GBP): 163,000
Number of repeat sales: 11

3. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid
The creators of Sots Art - a scurrilous trend in unofficial art, parodying the symbols and techniques of officialdom. They have lived in New York since 1978. 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 owned by the Moscow artist Alena Kirtsova). Works are in the collections of the MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, in the collections Shalva Breus, Daria Zhukova And Roman Abramovich and etc.
Year of birth: 1943, 1945
Work: "Meeting of Solzhenitsyn and Böll at Rostropovich's dacha". 1972
Date of sale: 23.04.2010
Price (GBP)1: 657 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 3,014,000
Seat: 7
Average cost per job (GBP): 75,350
Number of repeat sales: 3

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4. Semyon Faibisovich
A photorealist artist who remains the most accurate realist even now, when painting fascinates Semyon Natanovich less than journalism. Exhibited at Malaya Gruzinskaya, where in 1985 he was noticed by New York dealers and collectors. Since 1987 he has regularly exhibited in the USA and Western Europe. An active supporter of the abolition of the law on propaganda 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, are included in the collections Daria Zhukova And Roman Abramovich, Igor Markin, Igor
Tsukanova.
Year of birth: 1949
Composition: "Soldiers" (from the series "Stations"). 1989
Date of sale: 10/13/2007
Price (GBP)1: 311,200
Total Capitalization (GBP): 3,093,000
Seat: 6
Average cost per job (GBP): 106,655
Number of repeat sales: 7

5. Grigory (Grisha) Bruskin
The protagonist of the first and last Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988, where his work The Fundamental Lexicon became the top lot (£220,000). At the invitation of the German government, he created a monumental triptych for the reconstructed Reichstag in Berlin. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" for the exhibition Time H at the Multimedia Art Museum. Lives and works in New York and Moscow. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, MoMA, the Museum of Jewish Culture (New York), etc., are included in the collections of the Queen of Spain Sofia, Petr Aven, Shalva Breus, Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin, Milos Forman.
Year of birth: 1945
Artwork: "Logii. Part 1". 1987
Date of sale: 07.11.2000
Price (GBP)1: 424,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 720,000
Seat: 15
Average cost per job (GBP): 24,828
Number of repeat sales: 5

6. Oleg Tselkov
One of the most famous artists of the sixties, who in the 1960s began and still continues a cycle of paintings depicting rough, as if molded from clay, human faces (or figures), painted with bright aniline colors. Since 1977 lives in Paris. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, etc., are included in the collections Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arthur Miller, Igor Tsukanov. The largest private collection of Tselkov's works in Russia belongs to Evgeny Evtushenko.
Year of birth: 1934
Artwork: "Boy with Balloons" 1957
Date of sale: 26.11.2008
Price (GBP)1: 238,406
Total Capitalization (GBP): 4,232,000
Seat: 5
Average cost per job (GBP): 53,570
Number of repeat sales: 14

7. Oscar Rabin
Leader of the "Lianozovo 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 of Soviet citizenship. Lives and works in Paris. In 2006 he won the Innovation Award 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, are included in the collections of Alexander Glezer, Vyacheslav Kantor, Alexander Kronik, Iveta and Tamaz Manasherov, Evgeny Nutovich, Aslan Chekhoev.
Year of birth: 1928
Artwork: "The city and the moon (Socialist
city)". 1959
Date of sale: 15.04.2008
Price (GBP)1: 171,939
Total Capitalization (GBP): 5,397,000
Seat: 3
Average cost per job (GBP): 27,964
Number of repeat sales: 45

8. Zurab Tsereteli
The largest representative of the already monumental art. The 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 of the Russian Academy of Arts, creator of the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, working at the aforementioned academy. Sculptures by Zurab Tsereteli, in addition to Russia, adorn Brazil, Great Britain, Georgia, Spain, Lithuania, the USA, France and Japan.
Year of birth: 1934
Composition: "The Dream of Athos"
Date of sale: 01.12.2009
Price (GBP)1: 151 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 498,000
Seat: 19
Average cost per job (GBP): 27,667
Number of repeat sales: 4

9. Viktor Pivovarov
One of the founders of Moscow conceptualism. Like Kabakov, the inventor of the conceptual album genre; like Kabakov, Bulatov and Oleg Vasilyev, he is a successful illustrator of children's books who collaborated with the magazines Murzilka and Funny Pictures. Since 1982 he has been living and working in Prague. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, Kolodzei Art Foundation(USA), in the collections of Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.
Year of birth: 1937
Artwork: "Triptych with a snake." 2000
Sale date: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 145 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 482,000
Seat: 20
Average cost per job (GBP): 17,852
Number of repeat sales: 6

10. Alexander Melamid
Half of the creative tandem Komar — Melamid, disbanded in 2003. Together with Vitaly Komar, a participant bulldozer exhibition(where they died Double self-portrait, the founding work of Sots Art). Since 1978 he has been living and working in New York. There is no information about in which well-known collections the works of Melamid, created by him independently, are located.
Year of birth: 1945
Composition: Cardinal José Saraiva Martins. 2007
Sale date: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 145 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 145,000
Seat: 36
Average cost per job (GBP): 145,000
Number of repeat sales: —

11. Francisco Infante Arana
The owner, perhaps, of the heaviest list of exhibitions among Russian artists. Member of the group of kinetists "Movement", in the 1970s he found his own version of photo performance, or "artifact" - geometric shapes integrated into the natural landscape.
Year of birth: 1943
Artwork: "Building a sign." 1984
Date of sale: 31.05.2006
Price (GBP)1: 142,400
Total Capitalization (GBP): 572,000
Seat: 17
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,000
Number of repeat sales: —

12. Vladimir Nemukhin
Metaphysician. A classic of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a member of the "Lianozovo group", one of the participants in the Bulldozer Exhibition, curator (or initiator) of important exhibitions of the 1980s, when unofficial Soviet
art was just becoming aware of itself.
Year of birth: 1925
Artwork: "Unfinished Solitaire". 1966
Date of sale: 26.04.2006
Price (GBP)1: 240,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 4,338,000
Seat: 4
Average cost per job (GBP): 36,454
Number of repeat sales: 26

13. Vladimir Yankilevsky
Surrealist, one of the main names of the post-war Moscow unofficial art, the creator of monumental philosophical polyptychs.
Year of birth: 1938
Artwork: “Triptych No. 10. Anatomy of the soul. II." 1970
Date of sale: 23.04.2010
Price (GBP)1: 133,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 754,000
Seat: 14
Average cost per job (GBP): 12,780
Number of repeat sales: 7

14. Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky
picturesque project Paintings to order, begun by them 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
Artwork: "Night fitness". 2004
Date of sale: 22.06.2007
Price (GBP)1: 132,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,378,000
Seat: 11
Average cost per job (GBP): 26,500
Number of repeat sales: 4

15. Sergey Volkov
One of the heroes of perestroika art, known for expressive paintings with thoughtful statements. Participant of the Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988.
Year of birth: 1956
Artwork: "Double vision.
Triptych"
Date of sale: 31.05.2007
Price (GBP)1: 132,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 777,000
Place: 12
Average cost per job (GBP): 38,850
Number of repeat sales: 4

16. AES + F (Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, Vladimir Fridkes)
AES projects were distinguished by a good presentation in the sloppy 1990s, which is what they remember. Now they are making large animated frescoes broadcast on dozens of screens.
Year of birth: 1955, 1958, 1957, 1956
Composition: "Warrior No. 4"
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 120,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 305,000
Seat: 27
Average cost per job (GBP): 30,500
Number of repeat sales: —

17. Lev Tabenkin
Sculptor and painter with a sculptural vision, as if sculpting his characters from clay.
Year of birth: 1952
Composition: Jazz Orchestra. 2004
Date of sale: 30.06.2008
Price (GBP)1: 117,650
Total Capitalization (GBP): 263,000
Seat: 28
Average cost per job (GBP): 26,300
Number of repeat sales: 7

18. Mikhail (Misha Shayevich) Brusilovsky
Sverdlovsk surrealist, author of ambiguous allegories.
Year of birth: 1931
Artwork: Football. 1965
Date of sale: 28.11.2006
Price (GBP)1: 108,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 133,000
Seat: 38
Average cost per job (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
Composition: "Dream of the red
bird." 1988
Date of sale: 22.11.2010
Price (GBP)1: 100,876
Total Capitalization (GBP): 219,000
Seat: 31
Average cost per job (GBP): 36,500
Number of repeat sales: —

20. Alexander Ivanov
An abstract artist who is primarily known as a businessman, collector and creator of the Faberge Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany).
Year of birth: 1962
Composition: Love. 1996
Date of sale: 06/05/2013
Price (GBP)1: 97,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 201,000
Seat: 33
Average cost per job (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 all the paintings, which is why gallery owners are still sad.
Year of birth: 1935
Artwork: "Untitled" 1986
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 96,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,545,000
Seat: 10
Average cost per job (GBP): 36,786
Number of repeat sales: 8

22. Konstantin Zvezdochetov
In his youth, a member of the Mukhomor group, which called itself the "fathers of the" new wave "in the Soviet Union" -
with good reason; with the onset of creative maturity, the participant of the Venice Biennale and the Kassel
documenta. Researcher and connoisseur of the visual in the Soviet grassroots culture.
Year of birth: 1958
Composition: "Perdo-K-62M"
Date of sale: 13.06.2008
Price (GBP)1: 92,446
Total Capitalization (GBP): 430,000
Seat: 22
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,632
Number of repeat sales: 2

23. Natalia Nesterova
One of the main art stars of the Brezhnev stagnation. Favored by collectors for its textured painting style.
Year of birth: 1944
Artwork: "Melnik and his
son". 1969
Date of sale: 15.06.2007
Price (GBP)1: 92,388
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,950,000
Seat: 9
Average cost per job (GBP): 20,526
Number of repeat sales: 15

24. Maxim Kantor
An expressionist painter who performed at 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
Artwork: "The Structure of Democracy". 2003
Sale date: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 87,650
Total Capitalization (GBP): 441,000
Seat: 21
Average cost per job (GBP): 44,100
Number of repeat sales: 2

25. Andrey Sidersky
Creates paintings in the style of psi-art invented by him. He translated into Russian the works of Carlos Castaneda and Richard Bach.
Year of birth: 1960
Composition: "Triptych"
Date of sale: 04.12.2009
Price (GBP)1: 90,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 102,000
Seat: 42
Average cost per job (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, adhesive tape. The first exhibition with his participation was held in a public toilet in Rostov-on-Don in 1988.
Year of birth: 1962
Artwork: Versailles. 1993
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 72,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 346,000
Seat: 26
Average cost per job (GBP): 21,625
Number of repeat sales: 8

27. Alexey Sundukov
Laconic, lead-colored paintings about the "lead abominations" of everyday Russian life.
Year of birth: 1952
Artwork: "The Essence of Being". 1988
Date of sale: 23.04.2010
Price (GBP)1: 67,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 255,000
Seat: 29
Average cost per job (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
Artwork: “Kremlin breakfast, or Moscow for sale”. 2009
Date of sale: 03.12.2010
Price (GBP)1: 62,092
Total Capitalization (GBP): 397,000
Seat: 24
Average cost per job (GBP): 15,880
Number of repeat sales: 3

29. Vadim Zakharov
Archivist of Moscow Conceptualism. The author of spectacular installations on thoughtful topics, represented Russia at the Venice
biennale.
Year of birth: 1959
Artwork: Baroque. 1986-1994
Sale date: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 61,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 243,000
Seat: 30
Average cost per job (GBP): 20,250
Number of repeat sales: —

30. Yuri Krasny
Author of art programs for children with special needs.
Year of birth: 1925
Composition: "Smoker"
Date of sale: 04.04.2008Price (GBP)1: 59,055
Total Capitalization (GBP): 89,000
Seat: 44
Average cost per job (GBP): 11,125
Number of repeat sales: 8

31. Sergey and Alexey Tkachev
Classics of late Soviet impressionism, students of Arkady Plastov, known for their paintings from the life of the Russian village.
Year of birth: 1922, 1925
Artwork: "In the field". 1954
Date of sale: 01.12.2010
Price (GBP)1: 58,813
Total Capitalization (GBP): 428,000
Seat: 23
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,526
Number of repeat sales: 4

32. Svetlana Kopystyanskaya
Known for installations of paintings. After the Moscow auction Sotheby's in 1988 works abroad.
Year of birth: 1950
Composition: "Seascape"
Date of sale: 10/13/2007
Price (GBP)1: 57,600
Total Capitalization (GBP): 202,000
Seat: 32
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,444
Number of repeat sales: 2

33. Boris Orlov
Sculptor close to Sots Art. Famous for his work in the ironic "imperial" style and the masterful dressing of bronze busts and bouquets.
Year of birth: 1941
Artwork: Sailor. 1976
Sale date: 10/17/2013
Price (GBP)1: 55,085
Total Capitalization (GBP): 174,000
Seat: 34
Average cost per job (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: 25.11.2012
Price (GBP)1: 54,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 766,000
Seat: 13
Average cost per job (GBP): 12,767
Number of repeat sales: 24

35. Evgeny Semenov
Known for a photo series with patients with Down's disease, playing the role of gospel characters.
Year of birth: 1960
Composition: Heart. 2009
Date of sale: 29.06.2009
Price (GBP)1: 49,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 49,000
Seat: 48
Average Cost of Work (GBP): 49,000
Number of repeat sales: —

36. Yuri Cooper
He became famous for his nostalgic paintings with old household items. Playwright Twelve paintings from the artist's life, staged at the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov.
Year of birth: 1940
Artwork: Window. Dass Street, 56. 1978
Date of sale: 09.06.2010
Price (GBP)1: 49,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 157,000
Seat: 35
Average cost per job (GBP): 2,754
Number of repeat sales: 14

37. Alexander Kosolapov
A social artist whose work has been the target of 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
Artwork: "Marlboro Malevich". 1987
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 48,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 510,000
Seat: 18
Average cost per job (GBP): 15,938
Number of repeat sales: 1

38. Leonid Sokov
Leading Sots Art sculptor who combined folklore with politics. Among the famous works Device for determining nationality by the shape of the nose.
Year of birth: 1941
Artwork: "Bear hitting a sickle with a hammer." 1996
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 48,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 352,000
Seat: 25
Average cost per job (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
Artwork: "Angels and Railway Tracks" 1977
Date of sale: 17.04.2007
Price (GBP)1: 47,846
Total Capitalization (GBP): 675,000
Seat: 16
Average cost per job (GBP): 15,341
Number of repeat sales: —

40. Konstantin Khudyakov
The author of paintings on religious subjects. Now he works in digital art technique.
Year of birth: 1945
Artwork: The Last Supper. 2007
Date of sale: 18.02.2011
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 97,000
Seat: 43
Average cost per job (GBP): 32,333
Number of repeat sales: —

41. Ernst Unknown
An icon of Soviet non-conformism - since he openly objected to General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the vernissage of the legendary exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists. After that, he made a monument on the grave of Khrushchev and a monument in front of the UN European headquarters.
Year of birth: 1925
Composition: "Untitled"
Date of sale: 08.06.2010
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 2,931,000
Seat: 8
Average cost per job (GBP): 24,839
Number of repeat sales: 13

42. Anatoly Osmolovsky
One of the main figures of Moscow actionism in the 1990s, art theorist, curator, publisher and head of the Baza Institute research and educational program, winner of the first Kandinsky Prize.
Year of birth: 1969
Composition: "Bread" (from the series "Pagans"). 2009
Date of sale: 23.04.2010
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 83,000
Seat: 46
Average cost per job (GBP): 11,857
Number of repeat sales: —

43. Dmitry Vrubel
Photorealist painter, known mainly for the painting depicting Brezhnev and Honecker kissing (or rather, thanks to the author's reproduction on the Berlin Wall).
Year of birth: 1960
Composition: "Fraternal kiss (triptych)". 1990
Date of sale: 25.11.2013
Price (GBP)1: 45,000

Seat: 40
Average cost per job (GBP): 16,429
Number of repeat sales: 2

44. Leonid Lamm
The author of installations that combined the motifs of the Russian avant-garde and the scenes of Soviet prison life. Lives in America. In the 1970s, on false charges, he spent three years in prisons and labor camps.
Year of birth: 1928
Artwork: "Apple II" (from the series "The Seventh Heaven"). 1974-1986
Sale date: 12/16/2009
Price (GBP)1: 43,910
Total Capitalization (GBP): 115,000
Seat: 41
Average cost per job (GBP): 14,375
Number of repeat sales: —

Picturesque installations by Irina Nakhova of the 1980s in her apartment can claim authorship in the “total.

45. Irina Nakhova
Muse of Moscow Conceptualism. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize 2013 for "Project of the Year". In 2015 at the 56th Venice Biennale
will represent Russia.
Year of birth: 1955
Artwork: Triptych. 1983
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 38,900
Total Capitalization (GBP): 85,000
Seat: 45
Average cost per job (GBP): 17,000
Number of repeat sales: 1

46. ​​Katya Filippova
An avant-garde fashion designer who became famous during perestroika. Decorated the windows of the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette, was friends with Pierre Cardin.
Year of birth: 1958
"Artwork: Marina Ladynina" (from the series "Russian Hollywood")
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 38,900
Total Capitalization (GBP): 39,000
Seat: 49
Average cost per job (GBP): 39,000
Number of repeat sales: —

47. Boris Zaborov
Theater artist, book illustrator. In 1980 he emigrated to Paris, worked on costumes for the Comedie Francaise.
Year of birth: 1935
Artwork: "Communicator".1981
Date of sale: 30.10.2006
Price (GBP)1: 36,356
Total Capitalization (GBP): 67,000
Seat: 47
Average cost per job (GBP): 13,400
Number of repeat sales: 2

48. Rostislav Lebedev
Classical social artist, colleague (and workshop neighbor) of Boris Orlov and Dmitry Prigov. He creatively transformed the visual propaganda of the Soviet era.
Year of birth: 1946
Artwork: "Russian fairy tale". 1949
Date of sale: 03.06.2008
Price (GBP)1: 34,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 122,000
Seat: 39
Average cost per job (GBP): 24,400
Number of repeat sales: 2

49. Andrey Filippov
Belongs to the Moscow conceptual school. The 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
Artwork: "Seven feet under the keel". 1988
Date of sale: 31.05.2006
Price (GBP)1: 33,600
Total Capitalization (GBP): 137,000
Seat: 37
Average cost per job (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
Artwork: Lenin Square I. 1999
Date of sale: 30.06.2008
Price (GBP)1: 32,450
Total Capitalization (GBP): 33,000
Seat: 50
Average cost per job (GBP): 16,500
Number of repeat sales: —

Sales vs Exhibitions

Recognition of the market and recognition of the professional community seem to many different things, but the division into "commercial" and "non-commercial" artists is very conditional. So, of the Russian artists exhibited over the past ten years at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art (and this is the pinnacle of their professional career), seven units (if you count by person, then 11 people) got into our rating. And the top 10 artists from the ranking either exhibited at the Venice Biennale before, or had solo exhibitions in major museums. As for those wonderful masters who were not included in the rating, their absence or not very outstanding sales are explained simply and tritely. Collectors are conservative and even from the most avant-garde artists prefer to buy paintings (paintings, objects or photographs that look like paintings) or sculptures (or objects that look like sculptures). There are no record-breaking performances or giant installations in our rating (installations are usually bought by museums, but the price there is museum, at a discount). That is why such stars as Andrey Monastyrsky, Oleg Kulik, Pavel Pepperstein(until recently, he mainly did graphics, and graphics are a priori cheaper than painting) or, for example, Nikolay Polissky, whose grandiose designs have not yet found understanding collectors.

In addition, the market is conservative also because recognition here comes slowly - note that in the top 10, all artists born in 1950 or older. That is, the promising participants of the Biennale still have everything ahead of them.

Here is a selection of paintings by still little-known, but very talented artists. All the guys from Russia and our contemporaries. Watch, read and enjoy.

Guys, I write here all the time about quite famous and accomplished personalities. Of course, it would be much more interesting for me to write about those artists that no one knows about yet, but what can you do - you can write about anything on the VKontakte public, and you can only write on a blog what people are looking for in Yandex and Google, otherwise, no one will go there except you. But for a change and pleasure, I, nevertheless, decided to make a selection of "Little-known contemporary artists of Russia and their paintings."

• What else is interesting? (links to other articles).
• Paintings by Marchuk, one of the most famous contemporary Ukrainian artists
• The legendary dean of the faculty of graphics of the famous Repinka.

Some of these guys are still at the very beginning of their journey, and some have already become relatively established and successfully sell their works on VKontakte or on marketplaces like a crafts fair and are even known in narrow circles, but they all have one thing in common - they are still not known to the general public. But unknown does not mean deprived of talent, so I think it will be interesting for you to look. I decided to include here not only the draftsmen themselves, but also several sculptors.

Little-known contemporary Russian artists and their paintings. Illustrators and painters.

Little known artists. Color surrealistic modern in the paintings of Maria Susarenko.

I learned about this artist not so long ago and almost immediately fell in love with her paintings. Partly because she is very close to me in spirit as an artist, partly because of the admiration for technology and a riot of fantasy. Maria Susarenko is a sweet girl from St. Petersburg and a graduate of the famous St. A.L. Stieglitz. Maria Susarenko's paintings are an exuberant mix of Art Nouveau and Surrealism. They look very bright and decorative.

Pictures of little-known artists. Works by Maria Susarenko

Amazing detail!

Little known artists. Saturday Dasha.

The eternal motif of Yuralga is cats.
Funny weirdo. This is the kind of brooch I would wear.

MOAR — https://vk.com/shamancats

Little-known contemporary artists of Russia. Sculptors.

Even if there are not paintings, but decorations, they are so seductive and loving that I could not resist. After all, a sculptor is also an artist. Yes, an artist can be a painter, graphic artist, illustrator or sculptor (your captain is obvious). Here are two girls whose jewelry would not shame René Lalique himself.

Little known artists. Grimoire of the Black Hen.

In the workshop "Grimoire La poule noire", which in translation is "Grimoire of the black hen" (your captain is obvious), Lera Prokopets is in charge. Lera is a miniature sculptor and simply a gorgeous lady. She works primarily with polymer clay and stones. Lera creates stunning jewelry in a style that I would call gothic art nouveau. Such, slightly witchish, dark, but graceful beauty. Well, still, it's a "grimoire of a black chicken."

Little known artists. Original Art Nouveau jewelry. Photo from the workshop "Grimoire of the Black Hen".

Hekate, Greek goddess of the night.
Morphine. Thin:) Either demons or vampires with their tongues hanging out is one of Lera's favorite motifs.

How much does contemporary art cost? Which of the living artists enjoy the greatest recognition, the measure of which is banknotes? Artnet answered this question by analyzing auction results from 2011 to 2015 and listing best selling contemporary artists. Alas, there were no creators from Russia on the list.

10. Ed Ruscha

In the 60s of the last century, Ed, along with now famous artists such as Andy Warhol and Jim Dine, took part in the historical event "Re-imaging ordinary objects." It was one of the first exhibitions in the emerging pop art style in America. To an unenlightened look, Rushei's paintings are most reminiscent of a stenciled inscription against the backdrop of landscapes or a cheerful splash of flowers. However, over 4 years of his creations were sold for a total amount of $129,030,255.

9. Richard Prince

Richard made a name for himself by re-photographing images from print ads, arranging them in random order and embellishing them with scathing slogans. Marlboro cowboys, celebrities, porn stars, nurses and biker girlfriends suffered at his hands. He also paints the hoods of cars. The public appreciated his work in $146,056,862- it was for this amount that several works of the artist were sold.

8. Yayoi Kusama

The mentally ill artist loves to cover surfaces with dots of paint - it's called "infinity nets". She managed to trademark both this polka dot and her own illness and is now the best-selling contemporary artist in the world ( $152,768,689).

7. Peter Doig

One of the representatives of traditional landscape painting. His work is invariably popular with the viewer, who is tired of the hyper-ironic postmodern, because after the inscriptions, collages of photographs and polka dot chairs, it is so nice to stop your eyes on the tropical night landscape. For 4 years, paintings have been sold for $155,229,785.

6. Fan Zeng

Calligraphic lettering, transparent watercolor landscapes and portraits in traditional Chinese style are also selling well - $176,718,242 from 2011 to 2015.

5. Cui Ruzhou

This contemporary Chinese artist is famous for his ink paintings of flowers, birds and landscapes. However, ordinary people are unable to understand the mighty power of art - and in 2012, the cleaner of the Grand Hayatt hotel accidentally threw one of his works worth $ 3.7 million into the trash. Cui Ruzhou's work over the past 4 years has been sold for $223,551,382.

4. Zeng Fanji

Complex multi-colored works by another Chinese artist, where living beings and objects are either entangled in the web, or lost in the winter forest, as well as sinister pioneers with bloody hands from 2011 to 2015, were also sold well - for $267,949,220.

3. Christopher Wool

Christopher's trademark is huge white canvases with black lettering. Four of these letters, which form the word Riot ("rebellion"), were sold at Sotheby's for $29.9 million. And in just 4 years, the artist's works were sold in the amount of $323,997,854.

2. Jeff Koons

Former husband of porn star Cicciolina prefers to work in the neo-pop genre. He is especially famous for his steel sculptures imitating elongated balloon toys. For one of the works (steel orange dog) was paid at Christie's auction 58.4 million dollars. Jeff also plans to install a crane in front of the Los Angeles Museum of Art, on which he will hang a steam locomotive so that it puffs and emits clouds of smoke. From 2011 to 2015, Koons sold works worth a total of $379,778,439.

1. Gerard Richter

In the first place in the ranking of artists with the best-selling paintings is a master who does not even consider himself such. According to Gerard, for a long time he created something that was not related to art, composition, color, creativity, etc. Namely, he covered canvases with paint stains using scrapers and spatulas. One of these paintings, called "Abstract Image", most reminiscent of a watermelon that died in agony, was priced at Sotheby's for $43.6 million, and the artist's works for four years were sold for a modest amount of $1,165,527,419.

We present an updated version of the ranking that TANR published in 2014

The material was updated by: Alexey Alekseev, Konstantin Agunovich, Denis Belkevich, Anna Savitskaya, December 22, 2016. Dcompleted the material on February 25, 2017 — Eduard Bassalaev.

In 2014, we already published a similar list, we present its updated version. The top 50 includes artists who were born and worked (or continue to work) in the USSR-Russia, whose works over the past ten years have been sold at international auctions for amounts in excess of £30,000 (the British pound sterling was chosen, since 90% of domestic sales took place in London in this currency).

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

1. Ilya Kabakov

It seems that in general the main Russian artist, the founding father of Moscow conceptualism (one of them), the author of the term and practice of "total installation". Since 1988 lives in New York. 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. Works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), Kolodzei Art Foundation (USA), etc. Year of birth: 1933

Product: "Beetle". 1982

Date of sale: 28.02.2008

Price (GBP): 2,932,500

2. Eric Bulatov

Using techniques that would later be called Sots Art, he combined figurative painting with text in his works. In Soviet times, a successful illustrator of children's books. Since 1989 he has been living and working in New York, since 1992 in Paris. The first Russian artist with a solo exhibition at the Pompidou Center. The works are kept in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, etc., are included in the collections of the Dina Verny Foundation, Viktor Bondarenko, Vyacheslav Kantor, Catherine And Vladimir Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.

Year of birth: 1933

Artwork: "Glory to the CPSU". 1975

Date of sale: 28.02.2008

Price (GBP): 1,084,500

3. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid

The creators of Sots Art - a scurrilous trend in unofficial art, parodying the symbols and techniques of officialdom. They have lived in New York since 1978. 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 owned by the Moscow artist Alena Kirtsova). Works are in the collections of the MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, in the collections Breus sluts, Daria Zhukova And Roman Abramovich and etc.

Year of birth: 1943, 1945

Work: "Meeting of Solzhenitsyn and Böll at Rostropovich's dacha". 1972

Date of sale: 23.04.2010

Price (GBP): 657,250

4. Semyon Faibisovich

A photorealist artist who remains the most accurate realist even now, when painting captivates Semyon Natanovich less publicity. Exhibited at Malaya Gruzinskaya, where in 1985 he was noticed by New York dealers and collectors. Since 1987 he has regularly exhibited in the USA and Western Europe. An active supporter of the abolition of the law on propaganda of homosexuality in Russia. Lives and works in Moscow. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow House of Photography (Multimedia Art Museum), museums in Germany, Poland, the USA, are included in the collections Daria Zhukova And Roman Abramovich, Igor Markin, Igor Tsukanov.

Year of birth: 1949

Artwork: "Soldiers" 1989. From the series "Stations"

Date of sale: 10/13/2007

Price (GBP): 311,200

Grisha Bruskin

5. Grigory (Grisha) Bruskin

The protagonist of the first and last Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988, where his "Fundamental Lexicon" became the top lot (£220,000). At the invitation of the German government, he created a monumental triptych for the reconstructed Reichstag in Berlin. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" for the exhibition "Time "H"" at the Multimedia Art Museum. Lives and works in New York and Moscow. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, MoMA, the Museum of Jewish Culture (New York), etc., are included in the collections of the Queen of Spain Sofia, Petra Avena, Breus sluts, Catherine And Vladimir Semenikhin, Milos Forman.

Year of birth: 1945

Artwork: "Logii. Part 1". 1987

Date of sale: 07.11.2000

Price (GBP): 424,000

6. Oleg Tselkov

One of the most famous artists of the sixties, who in the 1960s began and still continues a series of paintings in which he depicts rough human faces (or figures) as if molded from clay, painted with bright aniline colors. Since 1977 lives in Paris. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, etc., are included in the collections Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arthur Miller, Igor Tsukanov. The largest private collection of Tselkov's works in Russia belongs to Evgeny Evtushenko.

Year of birth: 1934

Artwork: "Boy with Balloons" 1957

Date of sale: 26.11.2008

Price (GBP): 238,406

Snow, darkness, mud - and Moscow and Renoir in an embrace, Oscar Rabin

7. Oscar Rabin

Leader of the Lianozovo group (Moscow nonconformist artists of the 1950s–1960s), organizer of the scandalous Bulldozer Exhibition in 1974. He was the first in the Soviet Union to sell works privately. In 1978 he was deprived of Soviet citizenship. Lives in Paris. In 2006 he won the Innovation Award 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, are included in the collections Alexander Glezer, Vyacheslav Kantor, Alexandra Kronika, Iveta And Tamaza Manasherov, Evgeny Nutovich, Aslan Chekhoev.

Year of birth: 1928

Artwork: "The City and the Moon" ("Socialist City"). 1959

Date of sale: 15.04.2008

Price (GBP): 171,939

8. Zurab Tsereteli

The largest representative of the already monumental art. Author of the monument Peter I in Moscow and the monument "Good triumphs over evil" in front of the UN building in New York. Founder of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, creator of the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, working at the aforementioned academy. Tsereteli's sculptures, in addition to Russia, adorn Brazil, Great Britain, Georgia, Spain, Lithuania, the USA, France and Japan.

Year of birth: 1934

Composition: "The Dream of Athos"

Date of sale: 01.12.2009

Price (GBP): 151,250

9. Viktor Pivovarov

One of the founders of Moscow conceptualism. Like Kabakov, inventor of the concept album genre; like Kabakov, Bulatov And Oleg Vasiliev- a successful illustrator of children's books, collaborating with the magazines "Murzilka" and "Funny Pictures". Since 1982 he has been living and working in Prague. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, Kolodzei Art Foundation (USA), in collections Catherine And Vladimir Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.

Year of birth: 1937

Artwork: "Triptych with a snake." 2000

Sale date: 10/18/2008

Price (GBP): 145,250

10. Alexander Melamid

Half of the creative tandem Komar - Melamid, disbanded in 2003. Together with Vitaly Komar participant of the Bulldozer Exhibition (where their “Double Self-Portrait”, the fundamental work of Sots Art, perished). Since 1978 he has lived in New York. There is no information about in which well-known collections the works of Melamid, created by him independently, are located.

Year of birth: 1945

Composition: Cardinal José Saraiva Martins. 2007

Sale date: 10/18/2008

Price (GBP): 145,250

11. Francisco Infante Arana

The owner, perhaps, of the heaviest list of exhibitions among Russian artists. Member of the group of kinetists "Movement", in the 1970s found his own version of photo performance, or "artifact" - geometric shapes integrated into the natural landscape.

Year of birth: 1943

Artwork: "Building a sign." 1984

Date of sale: 31.05.2006

Price (GBP): 142,400

12. Vladimir Yankilevsky

Surrealist, one of the main characters of post-war Moscow unofficial art, creator of monumental philosophical polyptychs.

Year of birth: 1938

Artwork: “Triptych No. 10. Anatomy of the soul. II". 1970

Date of sale: 23.04.2010

Price (GBP): 133,250

13. Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky

The picturesque project “Paintings to Order”, which they started in the hopeless 1990s for painting, received what they 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

Artwork: "Night fitness". 2004

Date of sale: 22.06.2007

Price (GBP): 132,000

14. Sergey Volkov

One of the heroes of perestroika art, known for expressive paintings with thoughtful statements. Participant of the Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988.

Year of birth: 1956

Artwork: "Double vision. Triptych"

Date of sale: 31.05.2007

Price (GBP): 132,000

15. АЕS+F (Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, Vladimir Fridkes)

AES + F projects were distinguished by a good presentation in the sloppy 1990s, which is what they remember. Now they are making large animated frescoes broadcast on dozens of screens.

Year of birth: 1955, 1958, 1957, 1956

Composition: "Warrior No. 4"

Date of sale: 12.03.2008

Price (GBP): 120,500

16. Lev Tabenkin

Sculptor and painter with a sculptural vision, as if sculpting his characters from clay.

Year of birth: 1952

Composition: Jazz Orchestra. 2004

Date of sale: 30.06.2008

Price (GBP): 117,650

"Dream of the Red Bird" 1988 Olga Bulgakova

17. Olga Bulgakova

One of the main figures of the intelligentsia "carnival" painting of the Brezhnev era. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Year of birth: 1951

Artwork: "Dream of the Red Bird" 1988

Date of sale: 22.11.2010

Price (GBP): 100,876

Sergei and Alexei Tkachev. "Brothers" ("Double self-portrait"). 1981–1983 GTG

18. Sergey and Alexey Tkachev

Classics of late Soviet impressionism, students Arkady Plastov, known for their paintings from the life of the Russian village.

Year of birth: 1922, 1925

Artwork: "Saturday" 1973

Date of sale: 20.10.2016

Price (GBP): 97,935

19. Alexander Ivanov

An abstract artist who is primarily known as a businessman, collector and creator of the Faberge Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany).

Year of birth: 1962

Composition: Love. 1996

Date of sale: 06/05/2013

Price (GBP): 97,250

20. Ivan Chuikov

An independent wing of Moscow pictorial conceptualism. Author of a series of paintings-objects "Windows". Somehow in the 1960s, he burned all his paintings, which gallery owners still grieve about.

Year of birth: 1935

Artwork: "Untitled" 1986

Date of sale: 12.03.2008

Price (GBP): 96,500

21. Konstantin Zvezdochetov

Group member in youth "Amanita", whose members called themselves "fathers of the" new wave "in the Soviet Union" - with good reason; with the onset of creative maturity, he participated in the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta. Researcher and connoisseur of the visual in the Soviet grassroots culture.

Year of birth: 1958

Composition: Perdo-K-62M

Date of sale: 13.06.2008

Price (GBP): 92,446

22. Natalia Nesterova

One of the main art stars of the Brezhnev stagnation. Favored by collectors for its textured painting style.

Year of birth: 1944

Artwork: "Melnik and his son". 1969

Date of sale: 15.06.2007

Price (GBP): 92,388

23. 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 the philosophical and satirical novel "Drawing Tutorial" about the ins and outs of the Russian art world.

Year of birth: 1957

Artwork: "The Structure of Democracy". 2003

Sale date: 10/18/2008

Price (GBP): 87,650

24. Andrey Sidersky

Creates paintings in the style of psi-art invented by him. Translated into Russian compositions Carlos Castaneda And Richard Bach.

Year of birth: 1960

Composition: "Triptych"

Date of sale: 04.12.2009

Price (GBP): 90,000

25. Valery Koshlyakov

Known for paintings with architectural motifs. The largest representative of the "South Russian wave". Often uses cardboard boxes, bags, adhesive tape. The first exhibition with his participation was held in a public toilet in Rostov-on-Don in 1988.

Year of birth: 1962

Artwork: Moscow. 2006

Sale date: 10/17/2013

Price (GBP): 84,629

fragment - At the picture. 1987. Oil on canvas. 200x297. State Tretyakov Gallery.

26. Alexey Sundukov

He creates laconic, lead-colored paintings about the "lead abominations" of everyday Russian life.

Year of birth: 1952

Artwork: "The Essence of Being". 1988

Price (USD) 103 363

Date of sale: 23.04.2010

27. Nikas Safronov

Year of birth: 1956

Composition: "Dream of Italy"

Date of sale: 07.06.2011

Price (GBP): 63,650

28. Igor Novikov

Belongs to the generation of Moscow nonconformist artists of the late 1980s.

Year of birth: 1961

Artwork: “Kremlin breakfast, or Moscow for sale”. 2009

Date of sale: 03.12.2010

Price (GBP): 62,092

29. Vadim Zakharov

Year of birth: 1959

Artwork: Baroque. 1986–1994

Sale date: 10/18/2008

Price (GBP): 61,250

30. Svetlana Kopystyanskaya

Known for installations of paintings. After the 1988 Sotheby's Moscow auction, he worked abroad.

Year of birth: 1950

Composition: "Seascape"

Date of sale: 10/13/2007

Price (GBP): 57,600

31. Boris Orlov

Sculptor close to Sots Art. Famous for his work in the ironic "imperial" style and the masterful dressing of bronze busts and bouquets.

Year of birth: 1941

Artwork: Sailor. 1976

Sale date: 10/17/2013

Price (GBP): 55,085

Year of birth: 1939

Artwork: "Self-portrait with a hang glider"

Date of sale: 29.11.2007

Price (GBP): 54,500

33. Evgeny Semenov

Known for a photo series with patients with Down's disease, playing the role of gospel characters.

Year of birth: 1960

Composition: Heart. 2009

Date of sale: 29.06.2009

Price (GBP): 49,250

34. Yuri Cooper

He became famous for his nostalgic paintings with old household items. Author of the play "Twelve Pictures from the Life of an Artist", staged at the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov.

Year of birth: 1940

Artwork: Window. Dass Street, 56. 1978

Date of sale: 09.06.2010

Price (GBP): 49,250

35. Alexander Kosolapov

A Sots Art artist whose works have become the target of all sorts of attacks. During the fair "Art Moscow - 2005" one of his works was destroyed by a religious fanatic with a hammer.

Year of birth: 1943

Artwork: "Marlboro Malevich". 1987

Date of sale: 12.03.2008

Price (GBP): 48,500

"Bear hitting a sickle with a hammer." 1996 Sokolov Leonid

36. Leonid Sokov

Leading Sots Art sculptor who combined folklore with politics. Among the famous works - "A device for determining nationality by the shape of the nose."

Year of birth: 1941

Artwork: "Bear hitting a sickle with a hammer." 1996

Date of sale: 12.03.2008

Price (GBP): 48,500

Year of birth: 1945

Artwork: The Last Supper. 2007

Date of sale: 18.02.2011

Price (GBP): 46,850

Dmitry Gutov and Anatoly Osmolovsky at the opening of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Photo: Olesya Burlaka 2012.

38. Anatoly Osmolovsky

One of the main figures of Moscow actionism in the 1990s, art theorist, curator, publisher and head of the Baza Institute research and educational program, winner of the first Kandinsky Prize.

Year of birth: 1969

Product: "Bread". 2009. From the series "Pagans"

Date of sale: 23.04.2010

Price (GBP): 46,850

Wall painting "Brother's kiss" by Dmitri Vrubel at the East Side Gallery in Berlin.

39. Dmitry Vrubel

Photorealist painter, best known for his depictions of kissing Brezhnev And Honecker on the Berlin Wall.

Year of birth: 1960

Composition: Fraternal kiss (triptych). 1990

Date of sale: 25.11.2013

Price (GBP): 45,000

Year of birth: 1928

Artwork: "Apple II". 1974–1986 From the series "Seventh Heaven"

Sale date: 12/16/2009

Price (GBP): 43,910

Left - Gallery XL - Irina Nakhova "Big Red" 1998-1999

41. Irina Nakhova

Muse of Moscow Conceptualism. Laureate of the Kandinsky Prize in 2013 in the nomination "Project of the Year". In 2015 she represented Russia at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Year of birth: 1955

Artwork: Triptych. 1983

Date of sale: 12.03.2008

Price (GBP): 38,900

42. Katya Filippova

An avant-garde fashion designer who became famous during perestroika. Decorated the windows of the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette, was friends with Pierre Cardin.

Year of birth: 1958

Composition: "Marina Ladynina". From the Russian Hollywood series

Date of sale: 12.03.2008

Price (GBP): 38,900

43. Yuri Albert

Year of birth: 1959

Artwork: "I am not Kabakov." 1982

Date of sale: 25.11.2014

Price (GBP): 37,500

44. Boris Zaborov

Theater artist, book illustrator. In 1980 he emigrated to Paris, worked on costumes for the Comedie Francaise.

Year of birth: 1935

Artwork: "Participant". 1981

Date of sale: 30.10.2006

Price (GBP): 36,356

Alexey Morozov and Sergey Minaev at the opening of the exhibition of the artist MMOMA 09.02.2017

45. Alexey Morozov

Sculptor and painter, often refers to ancient scenes. The future, well rooted in the past, has become the constant conceptual leaven of his new work.

Year of birth: 1974

Artwork: "Carrus I (bronze)". 2011

Date of sale: 25.11.2014

Price (GBP): 35,000

46. ​​Mikhail Shemyakin

Painter, graphic artist and sculptor, lover of macabre images. Since 1971 he has been living abroad - first in France, then in the USA. Author of several sensational monuments in Moscow, Samara, St. Petersburg and other cities. Successful theater artist. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.

Year of birth: 1943

Artwork: "Untitled" 1985

Date of sale: 13.06.2008

Price (GBP): 34,450

47. Rostislav Lebedev

Classical Sots Art artist, colleague (and workshop neighbor) Boris Orlov And Dmitry Prigov. He creatively transformed the visual propaganda of the Soviet era.

Year of birth: 1946

Artwork: "Russian fairy tale". 1949

Date of sale: 05.06.2008

Price (GBP): 34,000

48. Andrey Filippov

Belongs to the Moscow conceptual school. The author of paintings and installations, united by the theme "Moscow - the third Rome". Since 2009, together with Yuri Albert And Victor Skersis belongs to the group "Cupid".

Year of birth: 1959

Artwork: "Seven feet under the keel". 1988

Date of sale: 31.05.2006

Price (GBP): 33,600

2005 "Untitled" Aidan Salakhova

Workshop of Aidan Salakhova 2016

49. Aidan Salakhova

Artist, sculptor, former gallery owner, one of the key figures in contemporary Russian art.

Year of birth: 1964

Artwork: "Without words No. 14 (marble)". 2015

Date of sale: 07.06.2016

Price (GBP): 32,500

50. Vladimir Shinkarev

Founder and ideologist of the art group "Mitki". In his novel "Mitki" for the first time this concept sounded. The novel was written out of boredom while working in the boiler room.