Sarah Mansfield

Head of the Russian Art Department
London, King Street

Having joined Christie's as a graduate trainee in 2004, Sarah Mansfield swiftly established herself as a key member of the international team and became a specialist in Russian Pictures in 2005. Primarily responsible for the Important Russian Pictures catalogue and business getting in Europe, Sarah was appointed Department Head, King Street, in 2008. Since joining the Russian Department Sarah has contributed to the phenomenal success of the Russian Art sales in London and New York, and has been instrumental in achieving many world record prices, including Abram Arkhipov’s At the market (London, 2006, £512,000), Ivan Aivazovskii’s American Shipping off the Rock of Gibraltar (London, 2007, £2,708,000) and The Somov Collection (London, 2007, £6,320,150). Having lived and worked in Russia, Sarah graduated from University College, Oxford, with Joint Honours in Russian and English Literature.

Alexis de Tiesenhausen

International Department Head
London, King Street

In a career spanning almost twenty-five years, Alexis de Tiesenhausen has pioneered Christie's Russian art sales in Geneva, New York, and London. Always a leader in his field, this Christie's veteran has been involved with the successful sale of some of the most significant Russian Works of Art ever to appear at auction including: The Kazan Collection of Fabergé (New York, 1997, $4 million); the Di Portanova Collection of Fabergé, Russian Works of Art & Objects of Vertu (New York, 2000, $3,276,869), the Fabergé Imperial Winter Egg (sold twice: New York, 2002, $9,579,500; and Geneva, 1994, 7,263,500 CHF), the Russian Field Marshal's Baton (New York, 2004, $903,500) and last but not least the Rothschild Fabergé Egg (London, 2007, £8,980,500). A devoted militarist and Fabergé expert, Alexis wrote the foreword to The Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs by Tatiana Fabergé, Lynette Proler and Valentin Skurlov (1997) and is the co-editor of The Preobrazhensky Regiment during the First World War and the Civil War due to be published in 2009. As International Head of the Russian Department, Alexis is responsible for high-level business-getting for all sale sites. Of Russian parentage, Alexis was born in Paris and attended the Institute de Sciences Politiques before going on to study law at The Paris University.

Evelyn Heathcoat Amory

Specialist
London, King Street

Evelyn Heathcoat Amory joined Christie’s in January 2009 as an Associate Specialist Trainee. After completing placements in English furniture, Victorian & British Impressionist Pictures and the Finance department, Evelyn joined the Russian department in the Autumn of 2009 assuming responsibility for researching and cataloguing Russian pictures for both King Street and South Kensington. Evelyn, who graduated with a first in Russian and Politics from the University of Leeds, has travelled extensively in Russia and has lived and worked in Moscow.

Anthea Peers

Business Manager
London, King Street

Anna Belousova

Senior Administrator
London, King Street

Sandra Nedvetskaia

Head Client Liaison
London, King Street

Ksenia Apukhtina

Director
London, King Street

Alina Brezhneva

Client Liaison
London, King Street

Alexandra Babenko

Art Researcher & Junior Cataloguer
London, King Street

Nadia Shaglina

Client Liaison
London, South Kensington

Guy Vesey

Director
Moscow

Daria Evtyukhova

Administrator
Moscow

Izabela Grocholski

Department Head
New York, Rockefeller Center

Izabela joins Christie’s with a decade of experience in the art world. She was director of the Jan Krugier Gallery for a period of three years, and worked with the gallery for seven. Having lived in Poland for four years she worked at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, where she assisted in the preparation of the centenary exhibition Warszawa-Moskwa/Moskwa- Warszawa 1900-2000, initiated by Zacheta’s director Anda Rottenberg, with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the State Tretyakov Gallery. Izabela, who has a degree in art history and political science from McGill University, interned during her studies in the Drawings Department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her former roles include working for the United Nations as a media liaison, and performing a similar role in the Unia & Polska Foundation in Warsaw, a driving force in Poland’s accession to the EU.

Anne Bracegirdle

Associate Specialist
New York, Rockefeller Center

Anne Bracegirdle's experience at Christie's began in the Interiors department in 2005, following graduation from Fordham University with a degree in Art History. She left the company to pursue a Master's degree in the History of Photography at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London. Her dissertation, awarded with Distinction, focused on the construction and reception of Soviet identity in photography from the 1920s through the present. Upon returning to New York, Anne worked as an associate for Ronald Varney Fine Art Agents and contributed to "Photography, the Whole Story," published in London by Thames and Hudson. She rejoined Christie's in 2011, where she serves both the Russian Pictures and Works of Art teams as an Associate Specialist.

Ksenya Malina

Client Development and General Inquiries
New York, Rockefeller Center

Laryssa Zalisko

Business Manager
New York, Rockefeller Center

Nicolas Kaenzig

Specialist
Paris

Nicholas has been a member of the Christie’s team for over 10 years, specialising in Russian Pictures and Works of Art since 2005.Highlights of his career include the sale of the Somov Collection in 2007 which totaled over £6 million. Nicholas studied History of Art and has a Masters Degree in Law.