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"Fashion at the Soviet Art. More and more operators of the market are interested in this item of antique sale”. Vasily Kirsanov, Independent Newspaper, No 103, dd. May the 26th, 2006.

For recent Art of Social realism has a great demand inside Russian and international antique markets. The rise of the prices for the official masters of the Soviet period of history of Russian Art are more than traditional price jumps for the works of masters-academicians and masters of avant-guard the end of XIX and beginning of XX century.
For recent Art of Social realism has a great demand inside Russian and international antique markets. The rise of the prices for the official masters of the Soviet period of history of Russian Art are more than traditional price jumps for the works of masters-academicians and masters of avant-guard the end of XIX and beginning of XX century. SOVCOM Gallery started to work as a commercial firm in 2002. Since the middle of 90s SOVCOM Bank began to collect a corporative collection of Soviet painting. Firstly the accent was made at 20s-30s years and the representatives of Society of Easel Painting Artists. Since 2000 started to buy the works of the representatives of “Severe Style”, artists of Russian immigration and modern artists. Since 2004 on a regular basis hold the auctions. At the 7th of June will passed the 14th auction. SOVCOM sell the Soviet painting and graphic (60% of the sales), Russian (20%) and Modern Art (10%) The rest 10% of the sales are photos, posters, porcelain, sculpture, rare things and second-hand books. At the 20th of September the first thematic auction will be held: graphic, posters, porcelain and sculptures. At the end of November we plan to hold the auction of book graphic, autographs and second-hand books. In next year we will deal with numismatics. All these show the Gallery started to work with adjoining spheres of antique. WE plan to hold not less than 12 auctions a year from which 2-3 auctions will be thematically. The main item of the politics of SOVCOM is the principle of maximum opening. All the sales are passed in public or through the auctions, or through the Gallery. One of the main criteria is the provenance of the picture that is the history of the work. By the way the owner of the Gallery SOVCOM and the Chairman of the Soviet of Directors of SOVCOM Bank Yuriy Tukhtin collects Russian and Soviet paintings more than 15 years. We see that such tendency in Russian history of Art as Art of Soviet period born and becomes stronger, which last years was popular only among foreigners as an element of exotic. Nowadays it is an original, strong market item with wonderful perspectives of financial investments.