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Anna runs a boutique advisory company (J Group SA https://www.jgroup.ch/) providing compliance services. With her longstanding experience in private banking compliance she offers a structured and independent approach. Her expertise lies in Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) and Know-Your-Customer (KYC) topics with a specific focus on CEE, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Anna has a legal background (MLaw, lic.iur) analytical and research skills as well as multilingual competence (English, German, French and Russian).
Rachel Ruysch
by Anna Brouver | Jan 8, 2025 | Art

The case

Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch Old Masters painter who was born in 1664. She died in 1750.

Source: yesterday’s NZZ page 30 & Alte Pinakothek and Toledo Museum

The commentary

Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Numerous key galleries and museums such as AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario have featured Rachel Ruysch’s work in the past.

Rachel Ruysch’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 2,750 USD to 2,519,191 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,519,191 USD for “Still life of roses, tulips, a sunflower and other flowers in a glass vase with a bee, butterfly and other insects upon a marble ledge, 1710“, sold at Sotheby’s London in 2013.

«Rachel Ruysch. Nature into Art», Alte Pinakothek München, until March 16, 2025 and Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, April 13 until July 7, 2025. 

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