Published: 5 June, 2008, 08:07
Edited: 5 June, 2008, 08:07
A masterpiece by Russian artist Mikhail Klodt has been sold for $US 1.3 million at the first ever auction of Russian works at the Heritage Auction Gallery in Dallas. The anonymous buyer bought the landscape painting “The Riverside Farmstead”,
The auction was inspired by the sale of Ivan Aivazovky's “Pushkin at the Water's Edge” which went for $US 1 .6 million in October last year
Mikhail Klodt is one of the founders of Russian realistic landscape art.
There was also considerable interest in the works of Nikolay Timkov, whose painting of the Kremlin in the city of Rostov Veliky was sold for $US 120, 000.