Dr. Eastaugh was featured in an article on forgeries in the modern Russian art market.

One of the problems is that Russian works do not have the same documentation – proving their history from their first sale onwards – as many Western paintings from the same era, said Dr Nicholas Eastaugh, whose Art Access and Research company uses the latest scientific techniques to examine the materials used in paintings.

“I’ve been doing a lot of work on Russian art over the last two years, and there are a lot of fakes around,” said Dr Eastaugh. “People are trying to buy their national heritage. The key works are from 1910 to the 1920s. There was a lot of chaos. Many works were destroyed afterwards or sent to remote provinces, which means documentation is poor. So looking into the history is problematic.”

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