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Russian Art for DKK 6 Million
Bruun Rasmussen has just completed two weeks of international auctions in Copenhagen, where Russian art and antiques were distributed across a traditional auction on Friday 8 June and a subsequent online auction on Monday 11 June. The highest hammer price was achieved by a painting by Feodor Vasilievich Sychkov, which depicted life in a snow-covered Russian village in 1934.
"We have spent the past six months collecting and cataloguing the 444 items at our two Russian themed auctions. At the auction, attention was especially given to Sychkov's charming depiction of the Russian rural population, which ended with a price of DKK 650,000 (€114,000 including buyer’s premium). A spring landscape by Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin came in second, while a parcel-gilt silver kovsh with the imperial Russian double-eagle and inscription from 1737 achieved a great third place," says Martin Hans Borg, Russian Specialist at Bruun Rasmussen.
It is no coincidence that so many expensive objects from Russia have ended up in Denmark. Since the 16th century, strong ties have been established between the two countries, which culminated in 1866 when the daughter of the Danish King Christian IX, Dagmar, married the later Tsar Alexander III. She introduced Danish companies into Russian business life, including the Great Northern Telegraph Company and East Asiatic Company, which contributed to the posting of many Danes in Russia, who subsequently brought many fine Russian art treasures home with them. There are many of these items, which we are now seeing on our auctions.
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Feodor Vasilievich Sychkov: Rural life in a Russian village at wintertime. Signed F. Sychkov 1934. Oil on canvas. 73 x 103 cm. Sold for DKK 650,000 (€114,000 including buyer’s premium).
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin: Russian spring landscape by a bending brook. Sign. I. Sh. Oil on canvas. 40 x 55 cm. Sold for DKK 400,000 (€70,000 including buyer’s premium).
Russian parcel-gilt silver kovsh. Gift from Zaritsa Anna Ioannovna to Ataman Ekim Petrov 1737. L. 30.5 cm. Saint Petersburg maker, 18th century first half. Sold for DKK 380,000 (€66,000 including buyer’s premium).
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Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers is one of Scandinavia’s leading international auction houses, and one of Denmark’s oldest. It all started on 6 October 1948, when Arne Bruun Rasmussen conducted the first traditional auction in the saleroom at Bredgade 33 in Copenhagen. Today, Jesper Bruun Rasmussen stands at the helm of the family-run business together with the third generation of the family, his son Frederik and daughter Alexa, and the company’s CEO Jakob Dupont.
In 2004, the first online auction was launched, and today the auction house has expanded to include departments in Copenhagen and Aarhus and representations in Sweden, Germany, England, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Spain, Italy, Thailand and the US. About 100,000 lots are put up for auction each year at the traditional auctions and daily online auctions. Here you can bid on everything from art, antiques, modern design and jewellery to books, coins, stamps, wine and weaponry.
