As Peter the Great had made his “window to the West,” at the turn of the twentieth century the artists of the Mir Iskusstva movement, headed by Sergei Diaghilev and
Art dealer Banu Babayeva talks to Madeleine Fitzpatrick about provenance and the Mir Iskusstva movement, and offers some sound advice for would-be collectors.
On June 18, 2007 the art work “Waterloo bridge, Gray Day” by French impressionist Claude Monet had been sold at Christie’s in London for record-breaking sum – 36 million dollars.