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In 2013, he accused the organisers of the exhibition "Avanguardie russe dal
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In 1994 he moved to Moscow. As he recalled: "Outside of Russia, there were few works of this period, so I moved to Moscow, I drove my car from London and worked in this market as a dealer. It was an incredibly interesting time and utterly crazy. Presidents of corporations and banks bought from me, I
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and others. In 2012, Butterwick put on the exhibition, ‘Russian Line’ in conjunction with
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