An article by Adam McDowell in Canada’s National Post describes how the painting sold at auction in Russia on January 17, and has been on display at a Moscow gallery as of Tuesday. Pattern on a Frosty Window cost the Natalia Kournikova Gallery 37 million roubles at a charity auction, The Art Newspaper reported, and “now it’s a coveted item among the oligarchy”.

McDowell writes, “if anyone asks, we love it — an offended Putin could have us crushed by means of (a) an offhanded remark to the FSB, (b) a knowing wink to his inner circle of goons, or (c) his own KGB-trained, vice-grip-like hands“.