The dearest Russian artists are called. Nikas Stepanovich Safronov bypassed Shemyakin Mikhail

2 Press of Top-50 of the dearest recent artists Russian Federation published izdaniyeThe Art Newspaper Russia on October 18. The leaf was made according to open (auction) sales and does not consider gallery sales where the sums openly do not appear. First place was won by Ilya Kabakov with the picture "Bug" written in 1982. It was sold at auction by Phillips in 2008 for 5,840 million dollars. Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the main figures of the Moscow conceptualism, the inventor of "total installation". Since 1988 he lives in New York, works in a co-authorship with the wife Kabakova Emilia. On the second...