Russian Art Week will feature paintings, jewelry, weapons, porcelain, Faberge items, Orthodox icons, books and manuscripts. A total of 13 auctions are expected to be held during the four-day event.
Sotheby's London will offer for sale masterworks by some of Russia's greatest artists, including Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900) and Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920).
The highlight of the sale will be Aivazovsky's "View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus."
Jo Vickery, Senior Director and Head of the Russian Art Department, said that the painting is estimated at around $3.7 million - $4.5 million.
Makovsky's 1880 "The Rag Market in Moscow" is also expected to be a hit. The painting was sold after his death to a Danish family, and remained with them for some 100 years. The price for the lot is estimated at around $1.4 million - $2.2 million.
The sale will also include Michael Larionov's "Reclining Nude" and Boris Grigoriev's "Self-portrait."
The auction house will also hold a sale of Faberge items, icons dating back to 17th -20th centuries, silver and porcelain. Its total estimate for the week is $44.5 million.
Christie's will present a series of exhibitions and auctions dedicated to Russian art, offering Russian paintings, Imperial-era furniture and a fine selection of Russian silver.
One of the highlights of the auction will be Natalia Goncharova's modernist painting, Still Life with Watermelons, which has not been on the market for 45 years and is expected to fetch $2.5 million-$3.3 million.
Another top item will be a Russian silver soup tureen "in the form of a fourteen gun warship from the Empress Catherine the Great's Black Sea Fleet Service", valued at $640,000 - $960,000.
The sale will also include the collection of the original gold-mounted Order of St. George, 4th Class and St. George swords, including one decorated with diamonds, belonging to Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich the Younger (1856-1929), first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II.
MacDougall Auctions is to present a collection of more than 550 lots. The top lot will be a unique collection of 122 erotic drawings for Le Livre de la Marquise by Konstantin Somov, estimated at $2.2 million-$4.4 million.
Bonhams London will offer "Au bord de la mer" by the modern abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky, expected to fetch around $150,000-$224,000. The auction house will present a total of 250 artworks, including Faberge items from Russian imperial collections.
