Auction "SOVKOME" on October 23. Summary
ARTinvestment.RU   27 октября 2014

Sold by 64.4 % of the lots catalog. Revenues exceeded 70 million rubles (46.8 % of the mean estimate)

Thursday, October 23, in the auction house "SOVKOM" completed auction "Russian and Western European art of the XIX — XX centuries", once again showing that true art no monetary storms are terrible. The number of lots sold 64.4 % (87 of 135), which by today's standards just fine. Revenues exceeded 70 million rubles, which is 46.8% of the average total estimate.

Twelve lots (and among them some top-лоты) were removed from the auction. Who trades Yuri Tyukhtin explained that monetary irregular: many things were surrendered in the spring, and in the current realities owners failed to converge in price with the organizers. So, we have not seen a trade for one of the top-лотов — sketch for the painting "the Oath" Alexander Gerasimov (score 10-15 million rubles); were removed winter landscape Alexey Isupova (score of 2.8-3.5 million), the thing with the cover Nicolas Erskine (score of 2.5-4 million), a large summer landscape George Savitsky (estimate 4-6 million), nu Helium Korzheva (5-10 million) and a number of other robot.

However, the absence of dozens of lots does not diminish the interest in the auction. Full hall were traded about ten bidder, they were arguing among themselves, with telephone and absentee bids. As a result of 87 lots sold 57 left in the room, 18 lots purchased by absentee rates, and 12 works got a phone players. If we consider separately the statistics on painting and drawing, you will find that expensive canvases this time bought almost as good as the cheaper works on paper. Almost 57 % of the picturesque lots found buyers (45 % in monetary terms). Revenue from the sale of works on canvas were $ 59.9 million rubles. The schedule was sold out at all by 76.7 %, and the revenue it brought 62,7 % of the mean estimate (9.7 million rubles). Were in the directory "SOVKOME" and a few decorative-прикладного art: five of the six porcelain (proposed two vases and four sculptures) found buyers. Total revenue from Thong DPI amounted to 520 thousand rubles.

Top-лотом auction was a landscape Alexander Mordvinov "View of the Grand canal in Venice". Airy, Sunny, large-scale (so-called "wall-to-wall") the landscape was bought by absentee rate start @there are 7 million rubles (180 thousand dollars). The second price was Maria Vasilyeva "Spanish village". This lot was one of those who in the time of bidding was not in Moscow, and in the EU. Bought it, by the way, also remotely — part-time rate — 6 million rubles (estimate 6-10 million). Was in the catalog even more expensive — landscape In the vicinity of Moscow" Aristarkh Lentulov (estimate 10-15 million). However, later (1940), without brand letunovskogo cubist landscape not found pokupatelei.

a Few lots left with a very good excess of the estimate. And the question here is not about tens or even hundreds of thousands of rubles, and about works with seven-digit price tags. The first time a serious struggle millionaires was played for the drawing sanguine Alexander Yakovlev "the Girl from the island of Capri" (lot 51). Arguing two participants in the room and phone. In the end, with 1-1 .5 million rubles start reached 2.2 million rubles. Defeated party in the hall. With no less fervor was traded for large, complex, multi-part wooden hinged representative Brut Laziness Purygin, which, as admitted by the auctioneer, he bought personally by the author. For the work "the Marriage of Laziness Purygin" 1979 two players in the hall of the phone and the party began to bargain with 600 thousand rubles and reached 2.2 million. Won hall. In more modest ranges were traded for all graphic items Maria yakunchikova, Alexander Benois, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Valentina Khodasevich. Field studies and theatrical sketches were bought in the range from 120 to 200 thousand rubles for risunok.

this time was well represented in the directory "SOVKOME" and sold out to cheer the art of the sixties and contemporary artists. For example, for 1.2 million roubles was bought canvas "Ark" participant "Group of eleven" Vitaly tûleneva (estimate : 1-1,5 million). For 1.5 million rubles took the job "Violin No. 2" Oscar Rabin (estimate : 1-1,6 million). Bought all proposed work Pavel Pepperstein and Viktor Pivovarov (100-120 thousand each). Over 700 thousand rubles went to the gym much work "Buffoons" Natalia Nesterova. Work "Summer" Timur Novikov got a phone player for 1.3 million dollars. It was disassembled and work Yuri albert (300 thousand), Vladimir Yakovlev (300 thousand), Bugaev-Африки (400 thousand rubles).

Past auction "Sovkome" can be called one of the key events this fall at the Moscow auction market. I wish that the organizers are not less strong auction assignments and such impressive sales on their next auction is scheduled for April 2015 goda.

the auction was watching Maria Onuchin, AI