A painting by Russian modernist Wassily Kandinsky sold for a record-breaking for this artist 37.2 million pounds (about $44.9 million) at Sotheby’s in London on March 1, 2022.
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Jo Vickery has opened an art advisory specialising in art from Russia and the former Soviet Union Courtesy of Vickery Art
It has been a little over a year since the Russian art specialist Jo Vickery left Sotheby’s after more than 20 years at the auction house.
Since then, through the tumult of the pandemic, she has had a baby and launched her own London-based “one-stop” advisory, Vickery Art.
“It was a bit like a marriage coming to an end you feel like two parties are diverging and going down different lines,” Vickery says of leaving Sotheby’s at the end of last February, a time when numerous long-time specialists departed the auction house. “It s a huge change I ve been an auction animal for over 20 years but now I ve got more freedom to work with artists.” Alongside advising collectors, she also plans to work (on a retainer basis) with artists from Russia and former countries of the Soviet Union, a rich field that she feels is “underre