Auction in the Gallery of Leonid Shishkin November 17, 2012. Results of
ARTinvestment.RU   19 ноября 2012

Auction Leonid Shishkin Gallery - a successful platform for those who are just attached to the world of art collectors and want to understand how to buy at auction

On Saturday, November 17, a regular, 111-th, auction Leonid Shishkin Gallery "Russian and Soviet Art».

The catalog includes 114 lots, but four lots were withdrawn from sale before the auction. 47%of lots sold in the amount of five and a half million rubles.

selling half of lots in these times, we note that the result for auction of paintings and graphics above average, but you can not say that the auction is in full As justified expectations of the organizers. One reason could be that the last Saturday in Moscow held three auctions: auction held Russian auction house, "Russian enamel" and the auction house "Znak", and many potential buyers are set by the auction organizer have the choice, preferred to other sites or to the hotel "Ukraine" not physically reached.

Bidding declared at 15.00, started in the fourth quarter - given fifteen minutes late (the last time this took 40 minutes, so that perhaps next time with the same attention organizers will treat those who come just in time). In the quiet rhythm in the first hour there were about fifty lots. Catalog opened thong graphics is called, however, the players, enthusiasm, and the first significant result only brought Lot 13: The film "Date» Valentina Tereshchenko went for 140,000 rubles in absentia rate.

general, can not be said that the hall was not active, and a half - two dozen participants in the hall provided half committed in that day of sales - 25 of 52, recorded in the course of trading, and 15 times won the phone 12 times played correspondence rates. It is worth noting that in the hall went largely the work of the lower and middle price segments, the results above one hundred thousand were in the majority or by absentee bid, or by phone. One exception was the English watercolor artist Thomas Atkinson (Lot 26), pushed into the room from the start to 400 for 700 thousand rubles.

By the way, watercolor Atkinson organizers touted as the most interesting works of auction. But "the main work of the evening," as named by the auctioneer, formal top lot - a picture of "The crowd on the Boulevard" (1929) Nicholas Tarkhova , exhibited with the estimate of 10.8 million rubles - no excitement. Why? Perhaps the reason is that the estimate: "The crowds on the Boulevard" at least higher than the pre-crisis record pictures are double the size and on average ten times today's market covers the prices of similar size, subject, creation and quality of things Tarkhova. In the absence of absentee bids and phone bidders Leonid Shishkin did not stint on the words to describe the advantages of painting the participants in the room, but ... he quickly moved on to the next lot.

From time to time, in order to further motivate the public Leonid Shishkin used his trademark technique - a significant reduction of the starting price of the lot with respect to the claimed estimate. Thus, trading in watercolor "The meeting of two trains in Tynda» Kharchenko (Lot 25), previously estimated at 10-15 thousand rubles, and began at the start of ... 500 rubles, and a lot left for fifteen hundred in the hall, with what can only congratulate the buyer. I must say that the price - it's not the only strange thing associated with this watercolor: Tynda station, where there are two trains was opened in 1986, while work in the catalog is dated 1954 year.

One of the most stubborn fighting erupted for a small job Plastov Arcadia « Winter Evening "(lot 77) . Fought for the painting two phones (from Moscow and St. Petersburg) and part-time rate. As a result, exceeding the upper estimate (rare at these auctions!), The work went to the buyer on the phone for 420 000 rubles.

More than all sold two works by Azam Atakhanova (items 82 and 83). The painting "Evening" (lot 82) went on a correspondence rate of 520,000, the work of "The Letter" (lot 83) sold for 1.5 million rubles at the rate of part-time buyer with the same number of carbides.

Once again, we note that because of their organization and pricing auction Leonid Shishkin Gallery - a successful platform for those who are just attached to the world of art collectors and wants a peaceful environment to understand how to buy at auction.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI