Russian Art sale

AP Published May 30, 2014
A bronze statuette, entitled 'A Bronze Group of Svyatoslav', casted after the model by Evgenh Langeray in the late 19th century, is pictured during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
A bronze statuette, entitled 'A Bronze Group of Svyatoslav', casted after the model by Evgenh Langeray in the late 19th century, is pictured during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
A bronze statuette, entitled 'The meeting of two sculptures' by artist Leonid Sokov is pictured during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
A bronze statuette, entitled 'The meeting of two sculptures' by artist Leonid Sokov is pictured during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
A reporter uses his table to take a picture, as an auction house employee poses for the photographers in front of an oil on canvas painting by artist Vasily Vereshchagin, made in the late 1870s/early 1880s, entitled 'The Pearl Mosque at Agra' during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
A reporter uses his table to take a picture, as an auction house employee poses for the photographers in front of an oil on canvas painting by artist Vasily Vereshchagin, made in the late 1870s/early 1880s, entitled 'The Pearl Mosque at Agra' during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
An auction house employee poses for the photographers behind a pair of rare and large two-handled porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain factory in St Petersburg, made during the period of Nickolas I, during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
An auction house employee poses for the photographers behind a pair of rare and large two-handled porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain factory in St Petersburg, made during the period of Nickolas I, during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
Auction house employees pose for photographers in front of an oil on canvas painting by artist Vasily Vereshchagin, entitled 'The Portico of a 17th Century Church in Yaroslavl', during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
Auction house employees pose for photographers in front of an oil on canvas painting by artist Vasily Vereshchagin, entitled 'The Portico of a 17th Century Church in Yaroslavl', during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
An auction house employee poses for the photographers in front of an oil on canvas painting by artist Aristarkh Lenulov, entitled 'Landscape with bridge, Kislovodsk, 1913', during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
An auction house employee poses for the photographers in front of an oil on canvas painting by artist Aristarkh Lenulov, entitled 'Landscape with bridge, Kislovodsk, 1913', during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
People walk around an exhibition of artworks during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London, Friday, May 30, 2014. Christie's will offer a selection of paintings and works of art in its Russian Art sale, which will be held in. AP
People walk around an exhibition of artworks during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London, Friday, May 30, 2014. Christie's will offer a selection of paintings and works of art in its Russian Art sale, which will be held in. AP
An auction house employee poses for the photographers in front of an oil on canvas painting by artist Vasily Vereshchagin, made in the late 1870s/early 1880s, entitled 'The Pearl Mosque at Agra' during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
An auction house employee poses for the photographers in front of an oil on canvas painting by artist Vasily Vereshchagin, made in the late 1870s/early 1880s, entitled 'The Pearl Mosque at Agra' during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
An auction house employee poses for the photographers behind a pair of rare and large two-handled porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain factory in St Petersburg, made during the period of Nickolas I, during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP
An auction house employee poses for the photographers behind a pair of rare and large two-handled porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain factory in St Petersburg, made during the period of Nickolas I, during a photo op ahead of an auction in central London. AP

Christie's will offer a selection of paintings and works of art in its Russian Art sale, which will be held in London on June 2, 2014. According to the house: 'With over 300 lots ranging from 1,000 to 1,500,000 British pounds, this sale presents one of the finest assemblages of Russian Art at auction in recent history'.

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