MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION.- A ’self-portrait’ by Kazimir Malevich was sold at auction for $600,000 dollars. The painting ’Portrait of Wife’, by the same artist sold for $90,000 dollars. Gelos auction house was also planning to sell one of the four known ’Black Painting With White Background,’ but it was declared national heritage by the Ministry of Culture and taken out of the auction. It is valued at more than $20 million. The works are part of the Inkombank collection, which went bankrupt.