The most liquid artists at the Russian auctions. The first half of 2016. Graphics
ARTinvestment.RU   05 сентября 2016

The drawings of artists which this year was most likely to sell at the market price? About it it will go to our ranking of best-selling authors in the segment of original graphics. It is only on the domestic auction market

let me Remind you how we form the liquidity rating. Take the statistics of auction sales in Russia in January–July of 2016. We consider separately only the original graphics, without the lottery. Next on the list, leave only those who for six months had at least 5 sales. The next cutoff is the average price of lots sold. She must be at least $ 300. about 20 000 rubles. In a recent ranking of liquidity painting this cutoff, we were higher – $ 500. But the graphics are ceteris paribus cheaper, so the threshold is lowered. The remaining artists in places in descending order of the percentage of sales of their works at auctions.

In this approach, a rating of liquidity for drawings by Russian artists in the Russian auction market in the first half of 2016, according to the version ARTinvestment.ru turned out so:

In the resulting list of explanations, perhaps, requires only the result of Lydia verhovskoy. The name is not at the hearing, and it can hardly be called the darling of collectors. But it so happened that in March at auction "In the Nikita" was exhibited string of her works, which almost all were sold out. That is all the result formed on the basis of just a single trade — good luck. Which, of course, not significant. Another point that is striking – the high average price of lots sold at Mavrina. The explanation is that twice in six months didn't sell individual pictures, and albums by Tatiana Alekseyevna. Hence, the high price of the lot. Conclusion – need to pay attention not only to statistics, but also the circumstances under which took the deal.

And, of course, always in the analysis of such tables it is important to pay attention not only to the formal percentage of sales, but the number of lots and the average price sold work or the lot. The higher the number of exposed lots, the better — more stable market. This means that for works of this artist are not three prey of the collector, and a lot more people. About average price also understandable. We don't beat the artists by price groups, so 300-долларовый economy-сегмент (Sveshnikov, Voroshilov and Chubarov) coexists with such heavyweights as Mavrina, Voloshin and Zverev, with the average price figure in the area of $ 2,000. Formally Chubarov is in the liquidity rating higher than Zverev. But choosing between him and Zverev, other things being equal and think of nothing – we must take Zverev. Collectors are much more recent, and the investment potential is higher. Unless, of course, the quality of Zverev's works good.

Another of the interesting to note that two of the artist (Voroshilov and Zverev) entered us in the top-10 liquidity as painting, and graphics. For collectors this could be an additional argument in favor of the acquisition of works of these authors. It should be remembered that the statistics is good, but the main criterion for liquidity is the quality of work. Weak and cool things even first names every year more and more difficult to find new buyers.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

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