James Butterwick

James Butterwick began collecting and selling Russian art in 1985, and has since established himself as one of the world’s leading experts in the field. During the 1990s he lived in Moscow, becoming the only foreign member of the Russian Society of Private Collectors. Now based in the UK, James assembles collections, takes part in museum exhibitions and art fairs, and delivers lectures on Russian art across the UK and globally.

Yakov Chernikhov 1889-1951: The Soviet Piranesi

Yakov Chernikhov - View Our Collection Online

Explore our collection of sensational Avant-Garde works on paper in gouache and/or Indian ink by Yakov Chernikhov, dubbed the ‘Soviet Piranesi’ on account of his powerful architectural visions. This drawing was one of 39 sensational artworks in our exhibition “Yakov Chernikhov. The Soviet Piranesi” at TEFAF 2020 in Maastricht. All the artworks are accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist’s grandson.

Contemporary Ukrainian Art - Ivan Turetsky

Ivan Turetsky is a colourful representative of contemporary Ukrainian art, a manifestation of a creative mind and national identity. Almost all of his last paintings depict the “beginning of infinity”, which reveal the common features of the Ukrainian millennia in art. The play of light in his paintings is philosophical and also the fruit of his personal evolution. Each of his new compositions is an emanation of a new light stream with its “uncontrolled” effects of optics.

Bogomazov "Self-Portrait" Sold to The Kröller-Müller Museum

We are delighted to announce the sale of Alexander Bogomazov’s dynamic 1916 “Self Portrait” to the Kröller-Müller Museum. By 1916, Bogomazov had reached the apogee of his creative genius, and this “Self Portrait”, drawn whilst the artist was teaching in Gerusiya in Armenia, is a vivid example of the powerful and vibrant style for which he has become famous. “Self Portrait” joins six other works by Bogomazov in the magnificent Kröller Müller Museum.

James Butterwick, The Dealer, features in the New Yorker

“Peter’s Painting,” a short documentary from the Brooklyn-based production company Rota6 Films, features our own James Butterwick. Peter Guppy, the owner of Prosperity Hardware, in Brooklyn, USA came to be the owner of a painting with a murky provenance, one that he thought could be the work of a Russian master, Kazimir Malevich, the Kyiv-born avant-garde artist who was a pioneer of abstract art in the early twentieth century.