"Magnum ARS" on March 20. Brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   25 марта 2014

And the demand for academic art is, and auction houses still have something to offer

March 20th House " Magnum ARS " auction season began in 2014 regular auction " Russian and Western European art, graphics XIX - XX centuries ».

obvious to the event organizers went pretty seriously. As is known, the museum is not always popular authors on the art market and , on the contrary , not all the artists whose works are actively sold out , there is a place in the permanent collections . In the catalog auction house " Magnum ARS ", which brought together 109 lots and downright abounded most famous museum names ( , Crickets , Vasily Polenov , Mikhail Mikhail Nesterov are just some of them) you can find almost all of the most popular artists of the Russian art market in recent years - and the masters of the nineteenth century , , Konstantin Makovsky and others , and representatives of the twentieth century - the sixties Anatoly Zverev , Vladimir Yakovlev , Boris Sveshnikov , etc.

not surprising that by 20 hours , which was appointed to start trading in the hall was full : the beginning auction eagerly waited nearly five dozen people come in Lavrushinsky Lane did not stop them nor weather, nor politics .

can not say that the hall was very much active, but in the end took 20 sold out that night ( despite the rather biting rates ) 49 lots , 20 more work went on absentee bidders rate 10 times won the buyers item on your phone. Interestingly, the overall result of yesterday's auction sales ( about 13.3 million) is consistent with the amount of sales of the previous trading session , held on October 31 last year, when the amount of gain by selling about 13.5 million rubles. As they say, permanence - a sign of skill .

However , obviously, not everything went as planned by the organizers. Left without a buyer Lot 23 - a lovely , subtle color picture « Happy Delivery " in 1870 . Estimate of the top lot (900 000-1 500 000 dollars), apparently proved unsupportable for potential buyers. Among the top lots unsold note and Lot 17 - "Portrait senbernarskoy dog " outstanding animal painter Sverchkova . And indeed, a mark of 100 thousand dollars in the course of the auction never crossed .

The most expensive auction works steel spring landscape Tourjansky ( Lot 37), written by the artist in 1909 under the influence of Impressionism, and a sketch of a decorative panel "Neptune and Ceres . Neptune Offering "brush Alexander E. Alexander Yakovlev ( item 59). Both works went for $ 40 000 on the phone and in the room respectively .

Landscapes in general were the most popular genre in this time. It is clear: by the end of winter, everyone wants bright colors - such as for example on canvas Baksheeva « pond " in 1945 (lot 28 ), which the buyer failed to pick up the phone to start, for 35,000 dollars, the marina Orlovsky « Surf » 1880-1900 -ies (Lot 21 ) , sold in the room for $ 10 000 , watercolors Boris Sveshnikov « Landscape with birch " in 1984 (lot 68), which in 2400 received a U.S. owner absentee bids , and other forms of nature .

But the most popular art form became (according to general market trends ) graphics: Sales 54.8%(17 of 31) offered for sale graphic works. For comparison: the painting took only 41.4%- 29 of 70 lots , mixed media and PDI even less .

fairness, it should be noted that the schedule and prices were much more democratic , trades it started with $ 500. Became the most expensive watercolor painting on paper " Gulf » Alberta ( lot 44 ) . The work went on correspondence starting rate for 7500 dollars. Found new owners and some of the things of the sixties - for example , gouache " Red Peony » Vladimir Yakovlev ( Lot 87 ) pushed by telephone at the start in 7000 dollars .

Despite the fact that last auction records showed no special or sensational sales, we have every right to congratulate the organizers with a good , stable operating result . It is gratifying to see that one of the oldest auction houses in Moscow ( and " Magnum ARS " traces its history to 1990 ) , despite the rather pessimistic predictions about the art market of the XIX century , does not lose pace and his example shows that the demand for academic art is and auction houses still have something to offer .

Maria Kuznetsova , AI