Cosmoscow Art Fair

Cosmoscow, a contemporary art fair to encourage new collectors, closed late Sunday at the central Manezh Exhibition Hall near the Kremlin.



Twenty-six galleries from Russia and all over the world took part in the fair, which offered artworks ranging in price from 2,000 euros to more than 2 millions euros.



Much of the focus was on the work of prominent Russian artists such as Pavel Pepperstein and the AES+F group. But the fair also featured up-and-coming artists and some from the West.



Pieces by British painter Cecily Brown and American abstract artist Christopher Wool were on show in the "Collector's Eyes" section, which gave visitors a peak at artwork bought by local collectors.



The fair also had an education program for budding collectors, a display of four promising Russian artists chosen as part of a competition organized by the V-A-C Foundation and the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp, and a charity auction in aid of model Natalia Vodianova's children charity, The Naked Heart Foundation.



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