Sotheby’s London Evening sale totals £7.9m with 17 of 28 lots sold (61%)

Average price is £464k

• opens strong with Aivazovsky, Polenov and Kryzhitsky all selling well.
• The Kryzhitsky made £289k against a high estimate of £80k.
• Couple of lots fail, one was withdrawn before the auction began. Then a few prices within estimate.
• Long lost Brodsky painting thought to be a Manet sells for £927,250!
• Bad streak as Larionov, Korovin fail but second Korovin goes for the low end of the estimate range.
• Kustodiev goes for £2.8m, almost 2x high estimate.
• Yakovlev makes £541k against £300k high est.
• Roerich £702k above £500k high est.