Russian Christie's auction yielded 15.2 million pounds
ARTinvestment.RU   27 ноября 2012

Set a record auction prices for works by Boris Kustodiev (4.4 million pounds) and Alexander Shevchenko (443.25 thousand pounds). Portrait by Nikolai Fechin went for 2 million pounds. Completely sold out and thong Yakunchikova Chekhonina

Yesterday, November 26, in London, the auction Christie's «Masterpieces of Russian Art." The final result of the auctions was 15.24 million pounds (24.42 million dollars). Of the 391 lots offered were sold to 254 (65%), and in monetary terms, revenues amounted to 83%. Set new world records for the price of Boris Kustodiev Boris and Alexander Shevchenko . The atmosphere in the auction hall was heated by an intense struggle for the work of collectors, which were first introduced in the market, including works from the collection of Peter Kapitza, and a collection of works Mary Yakunchikova and Chekhonina .

Alex Tiesenhausen, director of the International Department of Russian Art Christie's, and Sarah Mansfield, director of Russian art at Christie's in London, expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the auction, "namely those that the top-lot trades "cabby" Boris Kustodiev was auctioned off for a record price, "and noted that the selection of works in full compliance with the expectations of collectors, all 10 top auction lots were presented from private collections and are offered at auction for the first time, decent prices were set at collectible items in all categories, including Faberge and military paraphernalia.

Top-lot auction was a painting "cabby" brush Boris Kustodiev collection of world-renowned scientist and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Kapitza ( 1894-1984). Written in 1923, the painting was sold by auction for 4.4 million pounds ($ 7 million) - a new world record price for the artist's works at auction. The painting was bought by a private collector from Europe, participated in the bidding by telephone. The second work from the collection of Peter Kapitza, "urban fringe" brush Alexandra Shevchenko, also set a world record price and sold for 433.25 thousand pounds. As a result, works from the collection of Peter Kapitza have been sold for more than 4.8 million pounds.

top lot, runner-up - "Portrait of Mademoiselle Podbelskaya" brush Nikolai Fechin - was written by the artist in 1912, when Natalia Podbelskaya was a student at the Kazan Art School. Podbelskaya was one of the most popular models Fechin in years. Painting left in a private collection of over 2 million pounds.

third top lot of the auction was made of gilding silver badge and star of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, eventually sold for 481.25 thousand pounds, three times the pre-assessment.

14 works of Mary Yakunchikova sold a total of 479.88 for a thousand pounds, nearly double the stated evaluation, 22 by Sergei Chekhonina were sold for over $ 350 thousands of pounds. Bright work hand Alexander Volkov «Mausoleums in the moonlight" in 1915, which was presented at the first International exhibition "Alexander Volkov: sand and silk" in the halls of Christie's in London in September 2012, went under the hammer for 433.25 thousand pounds (694 thousand dollars).

Top-10 lots of the auction Christie's «Masterpieces of Russian Art" November 26, 2012

Source : Press Release Christie's