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Many believe that there are no artists left in the 21st century. However, in reality, this is not the case. And nowadays there are many talented and famous artists, whose works are shown in exhibitions, who earn big money. Below is a list of 20 of the most famous and well-earning artists who lead an active creative activity not only in Russia.

Russian artist Alexander Ivanov, born in 1962, is best known for his work called "Love", which was written back in 1996 and sold for almost 100,000 rubles. His style is abstract art. He is also a businessman, collects, opened a Faberge Museum in Germany, in Baden-Baden.

Olga Bulgakova is one of the few talented and famous Russian artists, born in 1951, and she is a member of the Russian Academy of Arts as a corresponding member. The representative of such a movement of painting of the Brezhnev era, which is called "carnival". Her most famous work is A Dream of a Red Bird, written in 1988.

Russian artist Mikhail Brusilovsky, working under the pseudonym Misha Shaevich, is included in this rating and takes 18th place. This world renowned artist

The talented Russian artist Lev Tabenkin was born in 1952 in the Russian capital- Moscow. This painter sees the painting like a sculptor. The feeling that his characters are sculpted from clay. One of Lev's most famous paintings is The Jazz Orchestra, written in 2004. It was sold for 117,650 rubles.

The AES + F project consists of four people, in fact, the name consists of the initial letters of the names of the participants: Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, Vladimir Fridnes. The creativity of this company is characterized by a very good presentation back in the nineties and was appreciated only in the two thousandth. For the most part now, they create large animated murals that are broadcast on dozens of screens. One of the most famous works of this company: "Warrior 4".

Russian artist Sergei Volkov was born in Petrozavodsk in 1956. His works are characterized by what he worked during the period of perestroika art. The pictures are written very expressively, where very profound statements and ideology are noticed. His most famous painting is Double Vision. Triptych".

Artists Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky were both born in Moscow in 1963 and 1964. They began to work together in 1994, having met at the festival, creating an unusual and grandiose project. The original design has earned the respect of many collectors. Their paintings hang in such famous places as the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and even the Pompidou Center. They themselves are the creators of the Art-Strelka gallery and the organizers of the Art-Klyazma festival.

Russian artist Vladimir Yankilevsky was also included in the list of the highest paid and famous artists. He was born in Moscow in 1938. Vladimir's father was also an artist, and his son inherited his profession. Vladimir works in the style of surrealism - creativity with paradoxical combinations. Back in 1970, he painted one of the most famous paintings called "Triptych 10. Anatomy of the Soul II".

Artist Vladimir Nemukhin was born in 1925 in the small village of Priluki, located in the Moscow region. He has participated in many foreign exhibitions in Europe. In the nineties he lived and was active in Germany, but in 2005 he moved to Russia. His work is characteristic three-dimensional composition, the presence of a counter-relief and various cross-cutting motives, for example, a deck of cards.

An artist with an unusual name, the son of a Spanish political emigrant, was born in the small village of Vasilyevka in Samara region in 1943. He was the organizer of the group of artists "Argo", is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists. Also, Francisco was awarded the State Prize for achievements in the field visual arts... The artist is actively involved in creative work both in Russia and abroad.

The artist Alexander Melamed used to be one of the members of the very famous creative duet Komarov-Melamed, but he broke up back in 2003, then they began to work separately. Residence since 1978 is New York. Most famous works he wrote together with Vitaly Komar, they also created the Sots Art movement together and were the organizers of the Bulldozer Exhibition.

This Russian artist, known as one of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism, was born in Moscow in 1937, where he graduated from the Polygraphic Institute. According to Viktor Pivovarov himself, his first work was written at the age of five. He is also a representative of "unofficial" art. His paintings are located in some of the most famous and large exhibition centers: the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin.

This artist was born in 1934 in Tbilisi. He is one of the brightest representatives monumental painting. Zurab is known for his work in the form of a monument to Peter I, which is located in Moscow, as well as a monument, which is located in front of the UN building in New York. Zurab is the president of the Russian Academy of Arts, where his own museum-gallery operates. The creations of this artist are known not only to Russia, but to the whole world.

Russian artist Oscar Rabin is famous for being the organizer of the Bulldor Exhibition in 1974 and four years later he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship. He also became popular as one of the first artists to privately sell paintings in the Soviet Union. At the moment, his permanent place of residence and work is Paris. His paintings are in major museums and exhibition centers: Moscow Museum contemporary art, Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum and others.

Russian artist Oleg Tselkov is known as an artist who began the main creative movement in the sixties of the 20th century, showing very rough and sharp features in his paintings, including in the depiction of people who look like clay figures. Since 1977, Oleg has continued his creative career in Paris. His paintings are located in such exhibition centers: the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage. One of famous paintings is "Boy with Balloons", written in 1954.

Born in Moscow in 1934, Russian artist Grigory Bruskin, or Grisha, has been one of the members of the Union of Artists since 1969. He gained the greatest fame thanks to large auction Sotheby's, where he sold his work called Fundamental Lexicon for the highest price, which was a record. At the moment he lives and works in New York and Moscow, therefore he is also called an American artist.

This Russian artist is distinguished by the fact that he depicts realistic things with the utmost precision. His real creative activity began from the moment when in 1985, having exhibited at Malaya Gruzinskaya, he won the attention and recognition of collectors from New York. Since then, his works have been exhibited in many European countries, are in exhibition centers in America, Germany and Poland. Now he lives and conducts creative activity in Moscow.

This duet, alas, existed until 2003, but was a huge success. Two Russian artists became famous for the creation of a movement such as Sots Art, which is an offshoot of unofficial art. This was a kind of response to the creation of pop art in the west. Canvases with the works of these artists are in major museums, including the Louvre.

The Russian artist is known for being able to combine both painting and text in his work, later they began to call it Sots Art. During the Soviet period he was popular as an illustrator in children's books. For a while he lived in New York, then in Paris. He was the first artist to stage an exhibition at the Center Pompidou. His creative work are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pompidou Center.

This talented Russian artist, who works in tandem with his wife Emilia, can be considered the country's chief artist, the founder of Moscow conceptualism. He was born in Dnepropetrovsk in 1933, but New York has become his place of residence since 1988. His works can be seen in the Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum. Ilya received the Japanese Emperor's Prize, and his two works entitled "Beetle" and "Suite" are the most expensive paintings.

The Art Newspaper Russia presents the rating: the most dear artists Russia from the living. If you are still sure that there have not been and are not Russian artists in the Western cage, we are ready to argue with that. In the language of numbers.

The conditions were simple: each of the living artists could be represented by only one, their most expensive work. When compiling the rating, not only the results of public auctions were taken into account, but also the loudest private sales. The authors of the rating were guided by the principle “if something is being sold loudly, then someone needs it,” and therefore they appreciated the work of marketers and press managers of artists who brought record private sales to the public. Important note: the rating is based solely on financial indicators; if it was based on the exhibition activity of artists, it would look somewhat different. Resources served as external sources for analytics Artnet.com, Artprice.com, Skatepress.com and Artinvestment.ru.

The US dollar was chosen as the currency of the world ranking, and the British pound sterling was taken as the equivalent to the sales of Russian artists (since 90% of domestic sales took place in London in this currency). The remaining 10% of the works sold in US dollars and euros were recalculated at the exchange rate at the time of the transaction, as a result of which some positions were changed. In addition to the actual cost of the work, data was collected on the total capitalization of artists (the number of top works sold at auction for all years), on the place of a contemporary artist in the rating of artists of all times, on the place of the most expensive work of a participant among all sold works of other authors, and also about nationality and country of residence. The statistics of repeated sales of each artist also contains important information as an objective indicator of the investment
attractiveness.

Last year, 2013, significantly changed positions contemporary artists in the international sales ranking. Top 50 most expensive works 16 modern art were sold last season - a record number (for comparison, 17 works were sold from 2010 to 2012, in the twentieth century there is only one sale). The demand for living artists is partly identical with the demand for all contemporary art, partly with the cynical understanding that capitalization of assets will invariably increase after their death.

Among the Russian participants, the brothers turned out to be the most respectable Sergey and Alexey Tkachev(b. 1922 and 1925), the youngest - Anatoly Osmolovsky(p. 1969). The question is who will become new Jean-Michel Basquiat while open. There are clear classes of buyers in the sales of our artists: the leaders are bought by foreign collectors and Russian oligarchs, places from 10 to 30 are provided by expatriate collectors, and the conditional bottom of the top 50 is our future, young collectors who have entered the market with “new »Money.

1. Ilya Kabakov
It seems that in general the main Russian artist (which does not prevent Kabakov, who was born in Dnepropetrovsk, from painting himself as Ukrainian), the founding father of Moscow conceptualism (one of), the author of the term and practice of “total installation”. Since 1988 he has been living and working in New York. He works in collaboration with his wife, Emilia Kabakova, which is why the title should have looked like “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov,” but since Ilya Iosifovich became known earlier than Ilya and Emilia, then let it remain so. Works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, MoMA, Kolodzei Art Foundation(USA), etc.
Born in 1933
Work: "Beetle". 1982
Date of sale: 28.02.2008
Price (GBP) 1: 2,932,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 10,686,000
Position: 1
Average Job Cost (GBP): 117,429
Repeat sales: 12

2. Eric Bulatov
Using techniques that would later be called Sots Art, he combined figurative painting with text in his works. During the Soviet era, he was a successful illustrator of children's books. Since 1989 he has been living and working in New York, since 1992 - in Paris. The first Russian artist with a personal exhibition at the Pompidou Center. Works are kept in collections Tretyakov Gallery, The Russian Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, etc., are included in the collection of the Foundation Dina Verny, Viktor Bondarenko, Vyacheslav Kantor, Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.
Born in 1933
Work: "Glory to the KPSS". 1975
Date of sale: 28.02.2008
Price (GBP) 1: 1,084,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 8,802,000
Position: 2
Average Cost per Job (GBP): 163,000
Repeat sales: 11

3. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid
The creators of Sots Art - a mock trend in unofficial art, parodying the symbolism and methods of officialdom. Since 1978 they have been living in New York. Until the mid-2000s, they worked in pairs. As an art project, they organized the "sale of souls" of famous artists through an auction (soul Andy Warhol since then owned by a Moscow artist Alena Kirtsova). Works are in the collections of MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Louvre, in collections Shalva Breus, Daria Zhukova and Roman Abramovich and etc.
Born in 1943, 1945
Work: "Meeting of Solzhenitsyn and Böll at Rostropovich's dacha." 1972
Date of sale: 23.04.
Price (GBP) 1: 657 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 3,014,000
Position: 7
Average Job Cost (GBP): 75 350
Repeat sales: 3

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4. Semyon Faibisovich
A photorealist artist who remains the most precise realist even now, when painting attracts Semyon Natanovich less than publicism. Exhibited at Malaya Gruzinskaya, where in 1985 he was noticed by New York dealers and collectors. Since 1987 he has been regularly exhibited in the USA and Western Europe. An active supporter of the repeal of the law on the promotion of homosexuality in Russia. Lives and works in Moscow. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow House of Photography, museums in Germany, Poland, the USA, are included in the collection Daria Zhukova and Roman Abramovich, Igor Markin, Igor
Tsukanov.
Born in 1949
Work: "Soldiers" (from the series "Stations"). 1989
Date of sale: 13.10.2007
Price (GBP) 1: 311 200
Total Capitalization (GBP): 3,093,000
Position: 6
Average Job Cost (GBP): 106,655
Repeat sales: 7

5. Grigory (Grisha) Bruskin
The protagonist of the first and last Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988, where his work Fundamental Lexicon became the top lot (£ 220,000). At the invitation of the German government, he created a monumental triptych for the reconstructed Reichstag in Berlin. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the category "Project of the Year" for the exhibition Time H at the Multimedia Art Museum. Lives and works in New York and Moscow. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, MoMA, the Museum of Jewish Culture (New York), etc., are part of the collection of the Queen of Spain Sofia, Petr Aven, Shalva Breus, Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin, Milos Forman.
Born in 1945
Work: “Logii. Part 1". 1987
Date of sale: 11/07/2000
Price (GBP) 1: 424,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 720,000
Position: 15
Average Job Cost (GBP): 24,828
Repeat sales: 5

6. Oleg Tselkov
One of the most famous sixties, in the 1960s, he began and still continues the cycle of paintings, which depicts rough, as if molded from clay, human faces(or figures) painted with bright aniline colors. Since 1977 he has been living in Paris. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, etc., are included in the collection Mikhail Baryshnikov, Artur Miller, Igor Tsukanov. The largest private collection of works by Tselkov in Russia belongs to Evgeniya Evtushenko.
Born in 1934
Piece: "Boy with balloons". 1957
Date sold: 11/26/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 238 406
Total Capitalization (GBP): 4,232,000
Position: 5
Average Job Cost (GBP): 53,570
Repeat sales: 14

7. Oscar Rabin
The leader of the "Lianozov group" (Moscow nonconformist artists of the 1950s-1960s), organizer of the scandalous Bulldozer Exhibition 1974 of the year. He was the first in the Soviet Union to sell works privately. In 1978 he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship. Lives and works in Paris. In 2006 he won the Innovation Prize for his contribution to art. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, are in the collections of Alexander Glezer, Vyacheslav Kantor, Alexander Kronik, Iveta and Tamaz Manasherovs, Evgeny Nutovich, Aslan Chekhoev.
Born in 1928
Work: "The City and the Moon (Socialist
town)". 1959
Date sold: 04/15/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 171,939
Total Capitalization (GBP): 5,397,000
Position: 3
Average Job Cost (GBP): 27,964
Repeat sales: 45

8. Zurab Tsereteli
The largest representative of the already monumental art. Author of the monument to Peter I in Moscow and the monument Good conquers Evil in front of the UN building in New York. Founder of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, creator of the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, which works at the aforementioned academy. Sculptures by Zurab Tsereteli, in addition to Russia, decorate Brazil, Great Britain, Georgia, Spain, Lithuania, USA, France and Japan.
Born in 1934
Composition: "The Dream of Athos"
Date of sale: 01.12.2009
Price (GBP) 1: 151 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 498,000
Position: 19
Average Job Cost (GBP): 27,667
Repeat sales: 4

9. Victor Pivovarov
One of the founders of Moscow conceptualism. Like Kabakov, inventor of the conceptual album genre; like Kabakov, Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev are a successful illustrator of children's books who collaborated with the magazines Murzilka and Veselye Kartinki. Since 1982 he has been living and working in Prague. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, Kolodzei Art Foundation(USA), in the collections of Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.
Born in 1937
Piece: "Triptych with a snake". 2000
Date sold: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 145 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 482,000
Position: 20
Average Job Cost (GBP): 17,852
Repeat sales: 6

10. Alexander Melamid
Half of the creative tandem Komar - Melamid, which broke up in 2003. Together with Vitaly Komar participant Bulldozer Exhibition(where they died Double self-portrait, the founding work of Sots Art). Since 1978 he has been living and working in New York. There is no information about the well-known collections of Melamid's works, created by him on his own.
Born in 1945
Piece: "Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins". 2007
Date sold: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 145 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 145,000
Position: 36
Average Cost per Job (GBP): 145,000
Number of repeat sales: -

11. Francisco Infante-Arana
The owner of perhaps the most weighty list of exhibitions among Russian artists. Member of the kineticist group "Traffic", in the 1970s he found his own version of photo performance, or "artifact" - geometric forms integrated into the natural landscape.
Born in 1943
Work: "Building a Sign". 1984
Date sold: 05/31/2006
Price (GBP) 1: 142 400
Total Capitalization (GBP): 572,000
Position: 17
Average Job Cost (GBP): 22,000
Number of repeat sales: -

12. Vladimir Nemukhin
Metaphysician. A classic of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a member of the Lianozov group, one of the participants in the Bulldozer exhibition, curator (or initiator) of important exhibitions in the 1980s, when the unofficial Soviet
art was just becoming aware of itself.
Born in 1925
Piece: "Unfinished Solitaire". 1966
Date of sale: 26.04.2006
Price (GBP) 1: 240 000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 4,338,000
Position: 4
Average Job Cost (GBP): 36,454
Repeat sales: 26

13. Vladimir Yankilevsky
Surrealist, one of the main names of the post-war Moscow unofficial art, the creator of monumental philosophical polyptychs.
Born in 1938
Work: “Triptych No. 10. Anatomy of the Soul. II. " 1970
Date of sale: 23.04.
Price (GBP) 1: 133 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 754,000
Position: 14
Average Job Cost (GBP): 12,780
Repeat sales: 7

14. Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky
Scenic project Paintings to order, begun by them in the hopeless 1990s for painting, received what they deserved in the 2000s. The duo became popular with collectors, and one painting ended up in the collection of the Center Pompidou.
Born in 1963, 1964
Work: "Night Fitness". 2004
Date sold: 06/22/2007
Price (GBP) 1: 132 000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,378,000
Position: 11
Average Job Cost (GBP): 26,500
Repeat sales: 4

15.Sergey Volkov
One of the heroes of perestroika art, known for expressive paintings with thoughtful statements. Member of the Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988.
Born in 1956
Work: “Double vision.
Triptych"
Date sold: 05/31/2007
Price (GBP) 1: 132 000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 777,000
Position: 12
Average Job Cost (GBP): 38,850
Repeat sales: 4

16. AES + F (Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, Vladimir Fridkes)
The AEC projects were notable for their good presentation in the sloppy 1990s, which is what they remembered. Now they make large animated murals, broadcast on dozens of screens.
Born: 1955, 1958, 1957, 1956
Work: "Warrior No. 4"
Date sold: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 120,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 305,000
Position: 27
Average Job Cost (GBP): 30,500
Number of repeat sales: -

17. Lev Tabenkin
A sculptor and painter with a sculptural vision, as if sculpting his heroes out of clay.
Born in 1952
Composition: "Jazz Orchestra". 2004
Date sold: 06/30/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 117 650
Total Capitalization (GBP): 263,000
Position: 28
Average Job Cost (GBP): 26,300
Repeat sales: 7

18.Mikhail (Misha Shaevich) Brusilovsky
Sverdlovsk surrealist, author of ambiguous allegories.
Born in 1931
Work: "Football". 1965
Date of sale: 28.11.2006
Price (GBP) 1: 108,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 133,000
Position: 38
Average Job Cost (GBP): 22,167
Number of repeat sales: -

19. Olga Bulgakova
One of the main figures of the intelligentsia's "carnival" painting of the Brezhnev era. Corresponding member
Russian Academy of Arts.
Born in 1951
Piece: "Dream of the red
bird ". 1988
Date of sale: 22.11.
Price (GBP) 1: 100 876
Total Capitalization (GBP): 219,000
Position: 31
Average Job Cost (GBP): 36,500
Number of repeat sales: -

20. Alexander Ivanov
Abstract artist who is known primarily as a businessman, collector and creator of the Faberge Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany).
Born in 1962
Composition: "Love". 1996
Date sold: 05.06.2013
Price (GBP) 1: 97 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 201,000
Position: 33
Average Job Cost (GBP): 50 250
Number of repeat sales: -

21. Ivan Chuikov
An independent wing of Moscow pictorial conceptualism. Author of a series of paintings-objects Windows. Somehow in the 1960s he burned all his paintings, which is why gallery owners are still saddened.
Born in 1935
Work: "Untitled". 1986
Date sold: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 96,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,545,000
Position: 10
Average Job Cost (GBP): 36,786
Repeat sales: 8

22. Konstantin Zvezdochetov
In his youth, a member of the "Mukhomor" group, which called themselves "the fathers of the" new wave "in the Soviet Union" -
with good reason; with the onset of creative maturity, a participant in the Venice Biennale and
Documenta. Researcher and connoisseur of the visual in the Soviet grassroots culture.
Born in 1958
Composition: "Perdo-K-62M"
Date sold: 13.06.2008
Price (GBP) 1: 92 446
Total Capitalization (GBP): 430,000
Position: 22
Average Job Cost (GBP): 22,632
Repeat sales: 2

23. Natalia Nesterova
One of the main art stars of the Brezhnev stagnation. Loved by collectors for its textured painting style.
Born in 1944
Work: "The Miller and his
a son". 1969
Date sold: 06/15/2007
Price (GBP) 1: 92 388
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,950,000
Position: 9
Average Job Cost (GBP): 20,526
Repeat sales: 15

24. Maxim Kantor
Expressionist painter who performed in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1997 - as well as publicist and writer, author of a philosophical and satirical novel Drawing tutorial about the ins and outs of the Russian art world.
Born in 1957
Work: "The Structure of Democracy". 2003
Date sold: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 87 650
Total Capitalization (GBP): 441,000
Position: 21
Average Job Cost (GBP): 44,100
Repeat sales: 2

25.Andrey Sidersky
Creates a painting in the psi-art style he invented. He translated the works of Carlos Castaneda and Richard Bach into Russian.
Born in 1960
Composition: "Triptych"
Date of sale: 04.12.2009
Price (GBP) 1: 90,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 102,000
Position: 42
Average Job Cost (GBP): 51,000
Number of repeat sales: -

26. Valery Koshlyakov
Known for paintings with architectural motives... The largest representative of the "South Russian wave". Often uses cardboard boxes, bags, scotch tape. The first exhibition with his participation was held in a public toilet in Rostov-on-Don in 1988.
Born in 1962
Composition: Versailles. 1993
Date sold: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 72,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 346,000
Position: 26
Average Job Cost (GBP): 21,625
Repeat sales: 8

27. Alexey Sundukov
Laconic, lead-colored paintings about the "leaden abominations" of everyday Russian life.
Born in 1952
Work: "The Essence of Being". 1988
Date of sale: 23.04.
Price (GBP) 1: 67 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 255,000
Position: 29
Average Job Cost (GBP): 25,500
Repeat sales: 1

28.Igor Novikov
Belongs to the generation of Moscow nonconformist artists of the late 1980s.
Born in 1961
Work: "Kremlin breakfast, or Moscow for sale." 2009
Date of sale: 03.12.
Price (GBP) 1: 62,092
Total Capitalization (GBP): 397,000
Position: 24
Average Job Cost (GBP): 15,880
Repeat sales: 3

29. Vadim Zakharov
Archivist of Moscow Conceptualism. The author of spectacular installations on profound themes, he represented Russia at the Venice
biennale.
Born in 1959
Work: "Baroque". 1986-1994
Date sold: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 61 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 243,000
Position: 30
Average Job Cost (GBP): 20,250
Number of repeat sales: -

30. Yuri Krasny
Author of art programs for children with special needs.
Born in 1925
Composition: "The Smoker"
Date of sale: 04.04.2008Price (GBP) 1: 59 055
Total Capitalization (GBP): 89,000
Position: 44
Average Job Cost (GBP): 11,125
Repeat sales: 8

31.Sergey and Alexey Tkachev
Classics of late Soviet impressionism, students of Arkady Plastov, famous for their paintings from the life of the Russian countryside.
Born in 1922, 1925
Work: "In the field". 1954
Date of sale: 01.12.
Price (GBP) 1: 58 813
Total Capitalization (GBP): 428,000
Position: 23
Average Job Cost (GBP): 22,526
Repeat sales: 4

32. Svetlana Kopystyanskaya
Known for installations from paintings. After the Moscow auction Sotheby's in 1988 he worked abroad.
Born in 1950
Composition: "Seascape"
Date of sale: 13.10.2007
Price (GBP) 1: 57,600
Total Capitalization (GBP): 202,000
Position: 32
Average Job Cost (GBP): 22,444
Repeat sales: 2

33.Boris Orlov
A sculptor close to Sots Art. He is famous for his works in the ironic "imperial" style and for his workshop in the manufacture of bronze busts and bouquets.
Born in 1941
Piece: "Sailor". 1976
Date sold: 10/17/2013
Price (GBP) 1: 55 085
Total Capitalization (GBP): 174,000
Position: 34
Average Job Cost (GBP): 17,400
Repeat sales: 1

34. Vyacheslav Kalinin
The author of expressive paintings from the life of the urban lower class and drinking bohemia.
Born in 1939
Work: "Self-portrait with a hang glider"
Date sold: 25.11.2012
Price (GBP) 1: 54,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 766,000
Position: 13
Average Job Cost (GBP): 12,767
Repeat sales: 24

35. Evgeny Semenov
Known for a photo series with patients with Down's disease, playing the role of evangelical characters.
Born in 1960
Piece: "Heart". 2009
Date sold: 06/29/2009
Price (GBP) 1: 49 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 49,000
Position: 48
Average Job Cost (GBP): 49,000
Number of repeat sales: -

36. Yuri Cooper
He became famous for nostalgic canvases with objects of old everyday life. The author of the play Twelve paintings from the artist's life, delivered to the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov.
Born in 1940
Work: “Window. Dassa street, 56 ". 1978
Date of sale: 09.06.
Price (GBP) 1: 49 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 157,000
Position: 35
Average Cost per Job (GBP): 2,754
Repeat sales: 14

37. Alexander Kosolapov
A social artist whose work has become the target of all sorts of attacks. During the Art Moscow 2005 fair, one of his works was destroyed by a religious fanatic with a hammer.
Born in 1943
Work: "Marlborough Malevich". 1987
Date sold: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 48,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 510,000
Position: 18
Average Job Cost (GBP): 15,938
Repeat sales: 1

38. Leonid Sokov
Leading sculptor of Sots Art, who combined folklore with politics. In list famous works A device for determining nationality by the shape of the nose.
Born in 1941
Piece: "A Bear Striking a Sickle with a Hammer." 1996
Date sold: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 48,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 352,000
Position: 25
Average Job Cost (GBP): 13,538
Repeat sales: 7

39. Vladimir Ovchinnikov
One of the patriarchs of the unofficial art of Leningrad. Orthodox version of Fernando Botero.
Born in 1941
Work: "Angels and Railroad Tracks". 1977
Date of sale: 17.04.2007
Price (GBP) 1: 47 846
Total Capitalization (GBP): 675,000
Position: 16
Average Job Cost (GBP): 15,341
Number of repeat sales: -

40. Konstantin Khudyakov
The author of paintings on religious subjects. Now he works in digital art technique.
Born in 1945
Piece: "The Last Supper". 2007
Date sold: 02/18/2011
Price (GBP) 1: 46 850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 97,000
Position: 43
Average Job Cost (GBP): 32,333
Number of repeat sales: -

41. Ernst Unknown
An icon of Soviet nonconformism - since he openly objected to General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the opening day of the legendary exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists. After that, he made a monument at the grave of Khrushchev and a monument in front of the building of the UN European headquarters.
Born in 1925
Work: "Untitled"
Date of sale: 08.06.
Price (GBP) 1: 46 850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 2,931,000
Position: 8
Average Job Cost (GBP): 24,839
Repeat sales: 13

42. Anatoly Osmolovsky
One of the main figures of Moscow actionism in the 1990s, art theorist, curator, publisher and head of the Baza Institute research and educational program, laureate of the first Kandinsky Prize.
Born in 1969
Work: "Bread" (from the series "Pagans"). 2009
Date of sale: 23.04.
Price (GBP) 1: 46 850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 83,000
Position: 46
Average Job Cost (GBP): 11,857
Number of repeat sales: -

43.Dmitry Vrubel
Photorealist painter, known mainly for the painting depicting Brezhnev and Honnecker kissing (or rather, thanks to the author's reproduction on the Berlin Wall).
Born in 1960
Composition: "Fraternal kiss (triptych)". 1990
Date sold: 25.11.2013
Price (GBP) 1: 45 000

Position: 40
Average Job Cost (GBP): 16,429
Repeat sales: 2

44. Leonid Lamm
The author of installations that combined the motives of the Russian avant-garde and scenes of Soviet prison life. Lives in America. In the 1970s, he spent three years in prisons and camps on false charges.
Born in 1928
Piece: "Apple II" (from the "Seventh Heaven" series). 1974-1986
Date of sale: 16.12.2009
Price (GBP) 1: 43,910
Total Capitalization (GBP): 115,000
Position: 41
Average Job Cost (GBP): 14,375
Number of repeat sales: -

Picturesque installations by Irina Nakhova in the 1980s in her apartment can claim authorship in the genre “totally.

45. Irina Nakhova
Muse of Moscow Conceptualism. Laureate of the 2013 Kandinsky Prize for "Project of the Year". In 2015 at the 56th Venice Biennale
will represent Russia.
Born in 1955
Work: "Triptych". 1983
Date sold: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 38,900
Total Capitalization (GBP): 85,000
Position: 45
Average Job Cost (GBP): 17,000
Repeat sales: 1

46. ​​Katya Filippova
An avant-garde fashion designer who became famous in the makeover. She decorated the windows of the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette, was friends with Pierre Cardin.
Born in 1958
"Work: Marina Ladynina" (from the series "Russian Hollywood")
Date sold: 03/12/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 38,900
Total Capitalization (GBP): 39,000
Position: 49
Average Cost per Job (GBP): 39,000
Number of repeat sales: -

47. Boris Zaborov
Theater artist, book illustrator. In 1980 he emigrated to Paris, worked on costumes for the Comedie Française.
Born in 1935
Work: "The Participant". 1981
Date of sale: 30.10.2006
Price (GBP) 1: 36 356
Total Capitalization (GBP): 67,000
Position: 47
Average Job Cost (GBP): 13,400
Repeat sales: 2

48. Rostislav Lebedev
A classic socialist artist, colleague (and workshop neighbor) of Boris Orlov and Dmitry Prigov. Creatively transformed visual propaganda of the Soviet era.
Born in 1946
Work: "Russian Fairy Tale". 1949
Date sold: 06/03/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 34,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 122,000
Position: 39
Average Job Cost (GBP): 24,400
Repeat sales: 2

49.Andrey Filippov
Belongs to the Moscow conceptual school. The author of paintings and installations, united by the theme "Moscow - the Third Rome". Since 2009, together with Yuri Albert and Viktor Skersis, he has been a member of the Cupid group.
Born in 1959
Composition: "Seven Feet Under the Keel." 1988
Date sold: 05/31/2006
Price (GBP) 1: 33,600
Total Capitalization (GBP): 137,000
Position: 37
Average Job Cost (GBP): 12,455
Repeat sales: 3

50. Vladimir Shinkarev
Founder and ideologist of the Leningrad artistic group"Mitki", in whose novel Mitki this term sounded for the first time. The novel was written out of boredom while working in a boiler room.
Born in 1954
Work: "Lenin Square I". 1999
Date sold: 06/30/2008
Price (GBP) 1: 32 450
Total Capitalization (GBP): 33,000
Position: 50
Average Job Cost (GBP): 16,500
Number of repeat sales: -

Sales vs exhibitions

The recognition of the market and the recognition of the professional community seem to many to be different things, but the division into "commercial" and "non-commercial" artists is very arbitrary. So, of the Russian artists who have exhibited over the past ten years at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art (and this is the pinnacle of their professional career), seven units (if you count by persons, then 11 people) were included in our rating. And the top 10 artists from the rating either exhibited at the Venice Biennale before, or had personal exhibitions in major museums. As for those wonderful masters who were not included in the rating, their absence or not very outstanding sales are explained simply and banally. Collectors are conservative and even from the most avant-garde creators prefer to buy painting (paintings that look like objects or photographs) or sculpture (or objects that look like sculpture). In our rating, there are no record performances or giant installations (installations are usually bought by museums, but the price there is museum, with a discount). That is why such stars as Andrey Monastyrsky, Oleg Kulik, Pavel Pepperstein(until recently, he mainly did graphics, and graphics are a priori cheaper than painting) or, for example, Nikolay Polissky, for whose grandiose designs there were no understanding collectors yet.

In addition, the market is conservative also because recognition here comes slowly - note that in the top 10 all artists are at least born in 1950. That is, the promising participants in the biennale still have everything ahead of them.

How much does contemporary art cost? Which of the living artists enjoy the greatest recognition, the yardstick of which is - banknotes? Artnet answered this question by analyzing the results of auctions from 2011 to 2015 and compiling a list top selling contemporary artists... Alas, there were no creators from Russia on the list.

10. Ed Ruscha

In the 60s of the last century, Ed, along with such famous nowadays as Andy Warhol and Jim Dine, took part in the historic event "Renewing Common Objects". It was one of the first exhibitions of the emerging pop art style in America. To the unenlightened eye, Ruscha's paintings are most reminiscent of a stencil inscription against a background of landscapes or a cheerful splash of flowers. However, in 4 years his creations were sold for a total amount of USD 129,030,255.

9. Richard Prince

Richard made a name for himself by re-photographing images from print ads, editing them in random order, and decorating them with biting slogans. Marlboro cowboys, celebrities, porn stars, nurses and biker girlfriends have suffered at his hands. He also paints the hoods of cars. The public appreciated his work in USD 146,056,862- it was for this amount that several of the artist's works were sold.

8. Yayoi Kusama

The mentally ill artist loves to cover surfaces with dots of paint - this is called the "web of infinity". She managed to turn both this pea and her own illness into a trademark and is now the best-selling contemporary artist in the world ( USD 152,768,689).

7. Peter Doig

One of the representatives of the traditional landscape painting... His work is invariably popular with the viewer tired of hyperirronic postmodernism - after all, after the inscriptions, collages of photographs and polka-dot chairs, it is so pleasant to stop your gaze on a tropical night landscape. Paintings sold for 4 years 155,229,785 dollars.

6. Fan Zeng

Calligraphy lettering, transparent watercolor landscapes and portraits in traditional Chinese style are selling well too - USD 176,718,242 from 2011 to 2015.

5. Cui Ruzhou

This contemporary Chinese artist is renowned for his ink paintings of flowers, birds and landscapes. However, ordinary people cannot understand the mighty power of art - and in 2012, a cleaning lady at the Grand Hayatt Hotel accidentally threw one of his works worth $ 3.7 million into the trash. Cui Ruzhou's works have been sold over the past 4 years for USD 223,551,382.

4. Zeng Fanji

The complex multicolored works of another Chinese artist, where living beings and objects either got entangled in a cobweb, or got lost in a winter forest, as well as sinister pioneers with bloody hands from 2011 to 2015, sold well too - for 267 949 220 dollars.

3. Christopher Wool

Christopher's trademark is huge white canvases with black lettering. Four of these letters, forming the word Riot, were sold at Sotheby's for $ 29.9 million. And in just 4 years, the artist's works were sold for an amount of $ 323,997,854.

2. Jeff Koons

The former husband of the Cicciolina porn star prefers to work in the neo-pop genre. He is especially famous for his sculptures made of steel, imitating toys made of oblong balloons. For one of the works (a steel orange dog), $ 58.4 million was paid at Christie's auction. Jeff also plans to put a crane in front of the Los Angeles Museum of Art, on which he will hang a steam locomotive to puff and emit puffs of smoke. From 2011 to 2015, Koons sold works for a total amount of USD 379,778,439.

1. Gerard Richter

In the first place in the rating of artists with the best-selling paintings is a master who does not even consider himself as such. According to Gerard, for a long time he created something that was not related to art, composition, color, creativity, etc. Namely, he covered the canvases with stains of paint using scrapers and spatulas. One of these paintings, entitled "Abstract Image", most of all reminiscent of a watermelon perished in agony, was valued at Sotheby's for $ 43.6 million, and the artist's works in four years sold for a modest sum of 1 165 527 419 dollars.

Art modern painting- these are works created at the present time or in the recent past. A certain number of years will pass, and these paintings will become the property of history. Paintings created in the period from the 60s of the last century to the present day reflect several areas of contemporary art that can be classified as postmodernism. During the Art Nouveau era, the work of painters was more widely represented, and in the 70s of the twentieth century, there was a change in the social orientation of the art of painting.

Contemporary art

Artists of modern painting represent, first of all, new trends in the visual arts. In cultural terminology, there is the concept of "contemporary art", which is somewhat correlated with the concept of "contemporary painting". Under the art of actual artists most often mean innovation, when a painter turns to ultra-modern themes, regardless of their focus. The picture can be painted in and depict any industrial enterprise. Or, on the canvas, there is a landscape landscape with a wheat field, a meadow, a forest, but at the same time a combine will be drawn in the distance. The style of modern painting assumes a social orientation of the picture. At the same time, landscapes of contemporary artists without social connotation are valued much higher.

Choice of direction

Since the end of the 90s, artists of modern painting have abandoned production themes and transferred their work to the mainstream of pure fine art. Fine masters appear portrait painting, landscape plots, still lifes in the style of Flemish drawing. And gradually, in modern painting, genuine art began to appear, in no way inferior to the paintings created by outstanding artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, and in some way even superior to them. Today's masters of the brush are helped by a developed technical base, an abundance of new tools that allow them to fully reflect their plans on canvas. Thus, artists of modern painting can create to the best of their ability. Of course, the quality of paints or brushes is important in the process of painting, but talent is still the main thing.

Abstract expressionism

Contemporary artists adhere to painting techniques that allow the use of non-geometric strokes applied in large numbers to large canvas. Large brushes are used, sometimes painting ones. Such painting can hardly be called art in the classical sense of the word, but abstraction is a continuation of surrealism, which appeared back in 1920 thanks to the ideas of André Breton and immediately found a lot of followers, such as Salvator Dali, Hans Hoffmann, Adolph Gottlieb. At the same time, contemporary artists understand expressionism in their own way. Today this genre differs from its predecessor in the size of the canvases, which can reach three meters in length.

Pop Art

Conceptual new avant-garde, which promotes aesthetic values, became a counterbalance to abstractionism. Contemporary artists began to include images of famous personalities such as Mao Zedong or Marilyn Monroe in their paintings. This art has received the name "pop art" - a popular, generally recognized direction in painting. Popular culture replaced abstractionism and gave rise to a special kind of aesthetics, which, in a colorful, spectacular manner, presented to the public what everyone was hearing, some recent events or images widely famous people in different life situations.

The founders and followers of pop art were Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman, Peter Blake, Roy Lichtenstein.

Photorealism

Contemporary art is multifaceted, often a new direction appears in it, combining two or more types of fine art. Photorealism became such a form of the artist's self-expression. This direction in painting appeared in the USA in 1968. It was invented by the avant-garde artist Louis Meisel, and the genre was presented two years later, at the Whitney Museum during the exhibition "Twenty-Two Realists".

Painting in the style of photorealism is associated with photography, the movement of an object seems to freeze in time. A photorealist artist collects his image, which will be captured in a painting, using photographs. From a negative or a slide, the image is transferred to the canvas by projection or using a scale grid. Then a full-fledged picture is created using painting technologies.

Photorealism flourished in the mid-70s, then there was a decline in popularity, and in the early 90s the genre was revived again. The venerable artists worked mainly in the United States, among them there were many sculptors who also created their works using image projection. The most famous masters of painting based on photorealism are Richard Estes, Charles Bellett, Thomas Blackwell, Robert Demeckis, Donald Eddy, Dwayne Hanson.

Photorealist artists of the younger generation - Rafaella Spence, Roberto Bernardi, Chiara Albertoni, Tony Brunelli, Olivier Romano, Bertrand Meniel, Clive Head.

Contemporary artists of Russia

• Serge Fedulov (born 1958), a native of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory. Participant of several exhibitions in Latin America and Europe. His paintings are distinguished by realism and contrasting color combinations.
• Mikhail Golubev (born 1981), graduated from the art class of the Omsk school of painting. He currently lives in St. Petersburg. Differs in an unusual manner of creativity, all his works are paintings-reflections with deep philosophical overtones.
• Dmitry Annenkov (born 1965) in Moscow. Graduated from the Stroganov Art Institute. Popular abroad, but prefers Russian exhibitions. Annenkov's art is realistic, the artist is a recognized master of still life.

Russian impressionists

• Alexey Chernigin, Russian impressionist painter (born 1975), is the son of famous artist Alexandra Chernigina. Studied painting and graphic design at the Nizhny Novgorod Art School. Graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Architectural Institute with a degree in Industrial Design. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1998. Since 2001 he has been a lecturer at the NSASU at the Department of Interior Design.
• Konstantin Lupanov, Krasnodar artist (born 1977). Graduated from the Industrial Academy at the State University of Culture and Arts with a degree in Monumental Painting. Member of many art exhibitions in and St. Petersburg. Differs in a rare manner of oil painting with swirling brushstrokes. Lupanov's paintings are completely devoid of contrasting color combinations, the images seem to flow into one another. The artist himself calls his works "fun, irresponsible daubs", but this statement contains a grain of coquetry: the paintings are actually written quite professionally.

Russian artists painting in the nude style

• Sergei Marshennikov (born 1971), one of the most famous Russian artists of our time. Graduated from the Ufa College of Arts. His paintings are an example of blatant realism. The works give the impression of an artistic photograph, the composition is so precise and every stroke is verified. The artist's wife Natalya most often acts as a model, and this helps him in creating a sensual picture.
• Vera Vasilievna Donskaya-Khilko (born 1964), granddaughter of the famous opera singer Lawrence Dmitrievich Donskoy. The brightest representative of modern Russian painting. Draws in the style of narrative nude. In the artist's creative palette, you can find beauties from the eastern harem and naked village girls on the river bank on the night of the holiday of Ivan Kupala, a Russian bath with hot women going out into the snow and swimming in an ice-hole. The artist paints a lot and is talented.

Contemporary artists of Russia, their work arouses more and more interest of connoisseurs fine arts worldwide.

Contemporary painting as a world art

Nowadays, visual art has taken on forms that are different from those that were in demand in the 18th and 19th centuries. Contemporary world artists have turned to the avant-garde in a narrower interpretation, the canvases have acquired sophistication and become more meaningful. Society today needs renewed art, the need applies to all types of creativity, including painting. Paintings of contemporary artists, if they are made at a sufficiently high level, are sold out, become the subject of bargaining or exchange. Some canvases are included in the lists of especially valuable works of art. Pictures from the past, painted by great painters, are still in demand, but contemporary artists are gaining more and more popularity. Oil, tempera, watercolor, and other paints help them in their creativity and the successful implementation of their plans. Painters tend to stick to one style. It can be a landscape, portrait, battle scenes or any other genre. Accordingly, the artist chooses a certain grade of paints for his work.

Contemporary artists of the world

The most famous contemporary artists differ in their writing style, their brush is recognizable, sometimes you don't even need to look at the signature at the bottom of the canvas. Notable masters modern painting - Philip Pearlstein, Alexander Isachev, Francis Bacon, Stanislav Plutenko, Peter Blake, Freud Lucien, Michael Parkes, Guy Johnson, Eric Fishl, Nikolai Blokhin, Vasily Shulzhenko.

In the photo is a painting by the famous contemporary Italian artist Aurelio Bruni. He lives and works in Umbria. The artist paints in the style of hyperrealism and symbolism, has organized 25 personal exhibitions, participated in 53 collective exhibitions, has 10 different awards and prizes.

The Road to York through the Trail World is a painting by the renowned contemporary British artist David Hockney. On June 21, 2006, Hockney's "Splash" was sold for 2.6 million pounds. His painting "The Grand Canyon", consisting of 60 small paintings that were combined to reproduce one huge painting, was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for $ 4.6 million. The Beverly Hills Housewife sold for $ 7.9 million at Christie's, New York. In 2016, his landscape, Waldgate Woods, was auctioned at Sotheby's for £ 9.4 million. became a new record for David Hockney.

In the photo is a painting by the famous contemporary American artist Warren Chung. Thanks to the masterful transmission of light and muted tones, his paintings look very realistic, perfectly convey emotions and mood. Most of his paintings depict people engaged in their professional activities or daily activities. He also paints interior paintings. Warren Chang has many different titles and awards. Lives and works in Monterey, California.

The painting is an abstraction of the contemporary famous German painter Gerhard Richter, who is one of the richest artists in the world. The painting shown in this photo was sold in London at Sotheby's for $ 44.52 million (30.4 million).

In the photo is a painting by the famous contemporary French artist Martial Rice. In 1993, one of his works was bought by billionaire François Pinault. In 2011, Rice's Last Year in Capri was sold for $ 6.58 million at Christie's (at the highest price among all previously sold works of other living French artists). In 2013, he entered the Top 50 Most Expensive Living Artists.

Painting by the famous contemporary Canadian artist Albini LeBlanc, a master of miniature urban landscapes with a palette knife. The artist lives and works in Quebec. His work can be seen in art galleries in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Quebec. Albini LeBlanc has organized 15 solo exhibitions, participated in 7 collective exhibitions, has 8 different awards and prizes.

Pictured is a painting by the famous contemporary Japanese artist Tomoko Kashiki. The artist has organized solo exhibitions in Singapore, France and Japan, participated in collective exhibitions in China, USA, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Great Britain, United Arab Emirates and Singapore. Her work can be seen in public collections at Art gallery Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; in one of the largest Japanese insurance companies - Dai-ichi Life Insurance Limited; at the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia; at Toyota Art Collection.

Painting "Coloring" by the famous modern Ukrainian artist Oleg Tistol. This painting was sold at Phillips for $ 53,900. By Forbes versions Oleg Tistol is one of the three most successful artists in Ukraine. He was born in Vradievka, Mykolaiv region, lives and works in Kiev, is a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, took part in many exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Poland, USA, Iceland, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Great Britain, Denmark, Brazil, Germany , Norway, France and Italy. Oleg Tistol took part in the Biennale: in 1994 - "September 17th", 22nd Biennale in Sao Paulo; in 2001 - "First Ukrainian Project", 49th Venice Biennale. His paintings are in the collections: in the PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine; in the Norton Dodge Collection, USA; at the Stedelik Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; at the Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland; at the Ministry of Culture of Turkey, in Ankara; at the Museum of the History of Moscow, Russia.

In the photo is a painting by the famous contemporary Polish artist Wojciech Babski. The artist lives and works in Katowice. It is popular not only in Poland but also abroad. Wojciech Babski received the following awards: 1st place in the category "The 2016 American Art Awards" in the category of pop art paintings; 1st place in the category "The 2016 American Art Awards" in the category of paintings commenting on politics; 3rd Place The 2016 American Art Awards in the category acrylic paintings; 4th and 5th places in the category "The 2016 American Art Awards" in the Expressionism category.

Pictured is a painting by the famous contemporary Belarusian artist Anna Silivonchik. The artist was born in Gomel, today she lives and works in Minsk. Silivonchik Anna is a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists, was awarded the medal "Talent and Vocation" of the international alliance "Peacemaker", her works are in the National Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk, the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art in Jersey City (USA), funds Gomel palace and park ensemble, Yelabuga State Museum-Reserve in Russia, private collections of Belarus, Russia, France, USA, Japan, Israel, Italy, Germany and Poland. In the period from 2001 to 2016, the artist organized many personal exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Germany and Ukraine, and also participated in collective exhibitions in Belarus, USA, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Latvia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany , Hungary, Niderand and Kazakhstan.

Painting by the famous contemporary Turkish artist Gyurbuz Dogan Eksioglu. The world renowned Turkish cartoonist and graphic artist from Ordu has over 70 awards, about a third of which are international. Grbz Doan Ekiolu has participated in many collective exhibitions, both in Turkey and abroad, held more than 20 solo exhibitions, one of which was held in New York. His work has been published in the Atlantic, New York Times, and has also graced the covers of New Yorker and Forbes magazines.

Painting by the famous contemporary Egyptian artist Hossam Dirar. The artist was born, lives and works in Cairo. Hossam Dirar has held many solo exhibitions in countries such as Bahrain, Great Britain, Slovakia, Italy, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Egypt. He also participated in group exhibitions in Germany, Egypt and South Africa.

Pictured is the painting "The Last Supper" by the famous contemporary Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi. This painting sold for US $ 23.3 million in Hong Kong in October 2013 at Sotheby's, setting a new record for contemporary Asian art. Earlier, in May 2008, when Christie's Hong Kong held its first Asian contemporary art sale , his Painting # 6 from the Mask series sold for HK $ 75,367,500. It was the world record of that year in terms of selling value among all artists.

In the photo is a painting by the famous contemporary Greek artist Nikos Giftakis. The artist was born, lives and works in Athens. He is very popular not only in Greece, he organized personal exhibitions and participated in many collective, in countries such as Switzerland, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Brazil, Russia and Greece.

Painting by famous contemporary Georgian artist David Popiashvili. The artist, originally from Tbilisi, is a member of the Union of Artists of Georgia, participated in exhibitions in France, Germany, Bulgaria, Russia and Georgia. Many of his works are in museums and private collections in Georgia and abroad.

The picture was painted by the famous contemporary artist of the United Arab Emirates Abdul Kader Al-Rais. The artist is one of the founders of the Emirates Society of Fine Arts and is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary art in the Emirates. His work can be found in the Emirates Palace (presidential hotel in Abu Dhabi), government offices and in the private art collections of members of the royal family in Dubai. The artist participated in various collective exhibitions, and also organized personal exhibitions in different countries(Czech Republic, Lebanon, USA, Germany, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates), has received many awards.

Pictured is a painting by the famous contemporary Dutch artist Tjalf Sparnaay. The artist is originally from the Netherlands, lives and works in the city of Hilversum, has organized 14 solo exhibitions and participated in many collective exhibitions in different countries (USA, UK, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Canada, Austria and the Netherlands). His works are in private and public collections in many countries.

Painting by the famous contemporary Spanish artist Miguel Barcelo. In 2003 he received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Art, one of the most important prizes in Spain. In 2004, he exhibited at the Louvre watercolors, which he created to illustrate “ Divine Comedy”, Becoming the first living contemporary artist to be exhibited in a museum. The artist is among the top 30 richest artists in the world. His paintings are expensive. For example, this one, the photo of which is presented above, costs 244,398 USD.

The picture was painted by the famous contemporary Swiss artist Urs Fischer. The artist, originally from Zurich, is among the top 50 richest artists in the world. He became famous for his provocative approach to art, but obeys its laws; he opposes the presentation of art as a commercial commodity, although he himself sells his work expensively, skillfully interacting with the art market and collectors.

In the photo is a painting by the famous contemporary Israeli artist Orna Ben-Shoshan. She lives and works in the city of Ra'anana, has held many solo exhibitions and participated in collective exhibitions in countries such as the USA, Italy, Great Britain, Cyprus, France and Israel. Having looked at the artist's works, you will be fascinated by the amazing world where everything is possible. Take advantage of this to enrich your imagination, broaden your horizons, and meet a rapidly growing talented artist.

In the photo is a painting by the famous contemporary Thai artist Direk Kingnok, a watercolorist from the town of Nakhon Ratchasima. He now lives and works in Khon Kaen City. Already at the age of 9, Director won a gold medal International Competition children's creativity Japan. He participated in exhibitions in Vietnam, China, Turkey, Italy, Russia, South Korea, Malaysia, Greece, Albania and Thailand.

Painting by renowned contemporary Norwegian artist Christer Karlstad. He lives and works in Drammen, has held solo exhibitions and participated in collective exhibitions in the USA, Sweden, Norway.

Pictured here is a painting by the renowned contemporary Danish artist, Jan Esmann. The artist was born, lives and works in Denmark, participated in exhibitions in such countries as: Germany, USA, Denmark.

The picture was painted by the famous contemporary Swedish artist Nisse Niedezh Ottenhag. The artist, originally from the small town of Lilla-Edet, has participated in many exhibitions in different countries (in the USA, France, Monaco, Namibia and Sweden).

Pictured is a painting by the famous contemporary Australian artist Elizabeth Barsham. She was born, lives and works in Tasmania and has many awards. Her work can often be found on magazine covers or as illustrations for articles. She is also often written about in the press. The artist took part in a large number exhibitions and organized personal exhibitions in different countries (Great Britain, Singapore, Italy, Australia).