Bonhams' Paris office announced on Monday that its online sale of the Eric A. Peschler Collection, dedicated to non-conformist art of the Soviet era, closed on 5 October with a total of €1,033,696. The auction sold 90.77 per cent of its lots and reached 100 per cent sold by value, a near clean sweep for a niche field that has been commercially delicate for the past several years. The sale ran online from 25 September through 5 October under the Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr banner on avenue Hoche, drawing strong international bidding, according to the house. The offering centred on underground art produced in the Soviet Union by artists who worked outside the state's official aesthetic doctrines, with works by Grisha Bruskin (b. 1945) among the highlights. The result is a rare headline success for Russian and Soviet material at a time when the major Western houses cancelled their dedicated Russian sales in 2022 and have kept a cautious distance since. Non-conformist art — the work made in defiance of Soviet official taste from the 1960s through the 1980s — retains a dedicated base of collectors in Europe and among the diaspora, and a full-value clearance suggests demand remains intact for well-curated holdings with clear provenance. The Peschler sale adds to a busy autumn for Bonhams Paris, where further online sales of impressionist and modern art and non-conformist material closed the same week. The house has not disclosed individual lot results beyond the headline totals, and a full post-sale report is expected in the coming days.