Putin Portrait Fails to Win Hearts of Russian Moneybags at Charity Auction
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A charity auction held recently in an upscale Moscow suburb offered Andy Warhol-style portraits of leading Russian politicians and tycoons painted by a young artist Veronika Ponomaryova but failed to raise much cash.
The collection featuring portraits of Vladimir Putin and German Gref, as well as tycoons Roman Abramovich, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Vladimir Potonin was put up for sale at the auction hosted by Ksenia Sobchak, Russia’s most famous party girl and daughter of the late mayor of St. Petersburg.
Oligarchs’ portraits were offered at the initial price of $5,000 each. Putin’s portrait was put up for sale at $10,000. Bidders, their identities concealed behind sun glasses, failed to show much interest in the lots.
Finally, Sobchak’s ex-boyfriend, entrepreneur Umar Dzhabrailov, who ran for presidency in 2000, bought almost the entire collection of the oligarchs’ paintings at the price of $5,000 plus 1 ruble each, and paid $11,000 for Putin’s portrait, but stopped short of buying Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky.
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Charity News Online
A charity auction held recently in an upscale Moscow suburb offered Andy Warhol-style portraits of leading Russian politicians and tycoons painted by a young artist Veronika Ponomaryova but failed to raise much cash.
The collection featuring portraits of Vladimir Putin and German Gref, as well as tycoons Roman Abramovich, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Vladimir Potonin was put up for sale at the auction hosted by Ksenia Sobchak, Russia’s most famous party girl and daughter of the late mayor of St. Petersburg.
Oligarchs’ portraits were offered at the initial price of $5,000 each. Putin’s portrait was put up for sale at $10,000. Bidders, their identities concealed behind sun glasses, failed to show much interest in the lots.
Finally, Sobchak’s ex-boyfriend, entrepreneur Umar Dzhabrailov, who ran for presidency in 2000, bought almost the entire collection of the oligarchs’ paintings at the price of $5,000 plus 1 ruble each, and paid $11,000 for Putin’s portrait, but stopped short of buying Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky.
charity,auction,fundraising, Ksenia Sobchak, Umar Dzhabrailov
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