Auction number 25 «In the Nikita." Brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   04 апреля 2014

Revenues amounted to 104%of the mean estimate, 61%of the lots were sold. Argued for autographs and feta Brodsky, Eisenstein and Kaverina

On Thursday , that is, yesterday, collectors of old books , manuscripts and autographs traditionally gathered in the cozy "House of antique books in Nikitsky ." The next, 25 th in a row auction , unlike movie musical theatrical auction the previous week , some special topics of a core had. However, this did not prevent the participants to achieve an excellent level of sales: 61 %of the lots were sold ; revenues reached 16.5 million rubles, or 103 %of the average of the total estimate. Bidding took place in a good business pace, clearly and coherently . Most got lots absentee buyers (107 ), which were , as ever, generous despite the eagerness of participants in the hall and telephone customers , absentee bid still is much higher and the estimate and the rates of competitors. Head and phone buyers won on 90 lots, and only 4 lots were bought cheap on the Internet .

Lot with the highest estimate of listing met expectations deliverers . It was a diploma granted it Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in honor Andrusovo sign the treaty between Russia and the Commonwealth ( item 6). Printed on Moscow printing house printing diploma with the Vistula and the veil of scarlet silk correspondence went to the buyer for $ 1.9 million ( estimate 1,8-2 million rubles ).

Among the most costly April 3 auction items were three thorough album with photos . Two of them are devoted to railway construction projects in pre-revolutionary Russia - Baikal railway (Lot 216, 58 photos 1900-1904 years , the result of 500 thousand rubles ) and the western part of the Amur railway (Lot 271, 318 album prints of photographs from years 1908-1913 , the result 400 thousand rubles ) . But surpassed railway history album of 312 original photographs on Russian aviation (lot 292). This album , which belonged to Russian pilot AE Shawl contains unique photographs pilots , intelligence apparatus , flights , etc. In Estima 300-350 thousand rubles for this rare item has traded up to 700 thousand rubles. Correspondence buyer won .

And one can not ignore the album : 50 stereographic images from the series "Crimea" bundled with the device for viewing ( lot 140 ) . Sokolov photographer on assignment stereographic publishing "Light" in 1908 captured Tauris time of the last Russian emperor. Pictures - as seen in the stereoscope - reflect like a mirror shot with nature phenomena and objects are in three dimensions in full size. Searches for rare and stereoscope in addition party in the hall paid 100,000 rubles (estimate 50-60 thousand rubles ).

Suddenly there was an active debate over the photograph of Anna Akhmatova's work Lev Polyakov . Picture of 1964 , made in the country in Komarovo poet , did not want to give each other party and correspondence player in the hall. As a result, the price soared from 3 thousand to 160 thousand rubles, or Lot estimate exceeded more than 50 times .

Collectors with the usual enthusiasm traded for the original autographs. And if at the previous auction dispute was for the pen strokes Chaliapin , Diaghilev or Bulgakov , the auction on April 3 fight broke out for autographs Brodsky , Eisenstein , feta . Freelance worker registration card publishing "Progress" Handwritten Joseph Brodsky (Lot 457 ) , went to the party in absentia for 260 thousand rubles Estimé 30-35 thousand rubles. Fet book of poems , " Night Lights " autographed poet (Lot 161) exceeded the estimate tripled got a player in the hall for 360 thousand rubles. Screenplay for the film " Ivan the Terrible " by Sergei Eisenstein with his autograph overall 15-16 thousand rubles, began trading with 60,000 , and bought for 100 thousand rubles. Good sold two autograph Marshak (lots 438 and 451 ) , as well as autograph Benjamin Kaverina on his book "Two Captains " (lot 439 , estimate 6-6.5 thousand rubles , the result of 50 thousand rubles ) . Is not that the only bought august autograph - letter Romanov children Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna . This cute hand written message of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna on behalf of all the children of Alexander III ( estimate 350-400 thousand rubles). But with the excess of the estimate 17 cards left with the image of Emperor Nicholas II and his family (estimate 15-17 thousand , 55 thousand rubles result ).

With good bargaining were sold two entertaining books about travel - a four-volume " around the World " ZH.S.S. Dumont d'Urville (Lot 64 , estimate 220-250 thousand rubles , the result of 440 thousand rubles ) and " Description Muscovy Muscovy and through Persia and back " A. Oleary (Lot 235 , estimate 40-45 thousand rubles , the result of 75 000 rubles ).

At auction Onuchina visited Maria , AI