Stand and deliver: the $950m 'art hostage situation' involving paintings by Malevich and Goncharova
Natalia Goncharova's Soldier Washing Horses (1910), valued in court documents at $6m, is among the works that a gallery's lawyer says were taken 'hostage' Courtesy of Shchukin Gallery In a long-running court battle, the Shchukin Gallery is seeking the return of five paintings by Kazimir Malevich and Natalia Goncharova worth $63m that the gallery says were taken by a Russian financier and have remained hidden ever since. Back in 2013, Rustam Iseev, a Russian financier and client of the Shchukin Gallery, introduced the investor Vladislav Gershkovich to the gallery’s o...