RESULTS: Russian Art and the Vostok Space Capsule at Sotheby's New York
Sotheby’s auction of Russian Art in New York brought $16,089,390 in total today, in excess of the pre-sale high estimate and the highest result for an auction in this category in New York since April 2008. The sale was led byHenryk Siemiradzki’s The Sword Dance, which achieved $2,098,500 and set a new record for the artist at auction, and An Important and Rare Micromosaic Table by Gioacchino Barberi, Made for the Russian Court, 1830-33, which more than tripled its high estimate in bringing $1,986,500.
A half hour after the conclusion of that auction, Vostok: Earth’s First Spaceship sold for $2,882,500 to Russian businessman Evgeny Yurchenko, who plans to return the space capsule to Russia.