Leonid Shishkin Auction July 12: sorry, no white gloves in store!
ARTinvestment.RU   16 июля 2012

The second auction of the "Start - 5,000 rubles," which at first seemed pure adventure - July, holiday, hot, weekday traffic jams - is over a clean victory: of the 117 lots sold 117. It was long, but fun

on Thursday, July 12, hosted the auction Leonid Shishkin Gallery "Soviet painting and graphics».

auction, announced in May, was truly a special event. First, this is the last auction of the season 2011-2012, and secondly, the special attractive starting price of each lot - 5000 rubles. This gallery has sought costs to thank their customers (see, 5000 rubles for the job, which starts from the estimate of 25-30, and sometimes 100,000 - is almost a gift) and to attract new customers. Indeed, despite the July heat of the day and evening in the middle of the week, in the hall were about three dozen people, among whom was attended by Russian and foreign buyers, collectors, dealers and artists.

Thanks special offer gallery, was a huge amount of correspondence online betting betting on the phone and even through Skype. Trade was brisk, recklessly (in the auction hall of the toughest fighters tore off a couple of thunderous applause from those present), and it is not surprising that it has been sold 100%of lots in the amount of two million rubles.

must say that, despite the announced starting price of 5000 rubles, bargaining in the hall began with 6000: for some time before the auction the buyer absentee bids by the number 74 made once the minimum bid on all lots.

3 in (lots 25, 67 and 86) of 117 were sold before the auction with the top estimate.

greatest interest in the first half of trading caused the work Noe Gedenidze « Still life with pomegranate "(Lot 36). When starting with 20 000 (part-time rate), it was sold for 47,000 rubles to the buyer on the phone. The struggle was long and hard, for the work room and grabbed the phone. Despite, the fact that the party in the hall granted priority over the phone if they are both pronounced the same number (telephone customer is struggling, sitting home and drinking tea, said the presenter, while the buyer is personally fighting in the hall and no tea, no drinks), won the phone.