twisted A., V. Khlebnikov Game in Hell
Lithographs Natalia Goncharova. 1912
First Edition. Colored copy
Kabinet. 23.04.2013. Lot 282
Estimate: 000-800 670 000
Result: 3,000,000 rubles
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Rubakin A. City. Poems. Cover, illustrations and vignettes from drawings by Natalia Goncharova. Font executed by the author. Paris 1920
Kabinet. 23.04.2013. Lot 343
Estimate: 000-190 150 000
Result: 600,000 rubles
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Rodchenko A. Stepanov V. First Horse. M.,
OGIZ - IZOGIZ, 1937
First Edition. Unabridged, with portraits of "enemies of the people" and with a case
Kabinet. 23.04.2013. Lot 444
Estimate: 000-650 520 000
Result: 670,000 rubles
Source: kabinet-auktion.com

Tuesday evening April 23 at the auction house" Kabinet "turned out to be saturated. First, the full house was spectacular auction. Traded hot and a lot of care percentage of lots for the money was more than 90%of that for auctions of fine arts in Russia, we can say the situation is exceptional. Following painting and drawing was a three-hour auction of old and rare books, maps and prints. About him and tell.

It appeared that the antiquarian auction delayed by many art lovers, who decided to "walk so to walk." The hall was nearly full, the mood of the majority - in high spirits. It's great that so many people are choosing auction as cultural activities on a weekday evening. Watch auction in the hall still much more interesting than learning from the master after the fact, how to distribute absentee bids. This time it was from the audience was most winning bets - 112 (58.6%). Telephone customers also had a lot (because of the abundance of the organizers of the left phone numbers even slightly delayed the start of trading). This category of buyers took 49 lots (25.6%). As for absentee rates - there were plenty, but their bids from the audience often interrupted. Absentee buyers eventually got 30 lots (15.7%). A total of 492 exhibited lots found new owners of 191 (39%). Total revenues were $ 23.7 million (approximately 45%of the average total estimate). For second-hand trading result is good but can be better. Although, perhaps, by the laws of equilibrium in the auction of the universe, just in one area (scenic) arrived, the other (second-hand), logically, should go down a bit.

of lots from a preliminary estimate Over half a million rubles (and those in the catalog "Cabinet" was 24) found buyers 11 editions. Surprisingly cool were met as claimed top lots of first editions of Pushkin. Almanac "Monument of Russian music" for 1827 (lot 54, estimate 600-900 thousand), which were first published works of Pushkin's "Romance," "Desire," "grace-cup", "To the painter" and others, was left without buyer. Not wishing to purchase and Almanac "Snowdrop" (lot 58, estimate 680-800 thousand rubles), with intravital publications Pushkin's poems "Signs" and "Literary news." "Nevsky Almanac for 1828", which saw the light of "The scene of the tragedy" Boris Godunov "", "Revival", "Transfer of unpublished poems Andrew Chenier" and three "moralistic quatrains," went on the lower estimate for 580,000 rubles single applicant in the hall. Just at the start, was sold anthology "Alcyone" for 1832 (lot 62, estimate 700-850 thousand) with the publication of "The Feast During the Plague." But what's almanacs - even the first full lifetime edition of the novel "Eugene Onegin" (lot 65, estimate 1.6-2.5 million) was not sold. In the book, however, lost 15 pages - maybe it scared off buyers?

As to the first publication of a poem by Mikhail Lermontov - here, too, the sensation did not happen. The magazine "Athenaeum" in 1830, in which the signature of «L.» (Lermontov) published the poem "Spring" (refers to a cycle of poems dedicated to black-eyed Catherine Alexeevna Sushkova) was sold to the buyer in absentia by lower estimate for 580,000 rubles. First editions of the poem "The Adventures of Chichikov or Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol (lot 88, estimate 460-550 thousand rubles) and the novel VA Sologub "The carriage" (lot 87, estimate 220-290 thousand) did not go with auction. In general, with respect to lifetime publication of our classics "golden age" under the impression that everyone who can afford to buy these books, they already have, and those who would like to buy them, can not yet afford it.

luxurious, richly illustrated book in German "Uniforms of the Imperial Russian Army," which was published in Munich in 1840, was offered for 2.6-3.5 million (item 80). But despite the hundreds of color lithographs by German artists in Montego Dietrich and Henry Eckert Ambrose, the publication did not find buyers. Our collectors are not interested in the German view of our army. But the domestic edition of "The History of the Life Guards regiment of Chasseurs for a hundred years. 1796-1896 "(lot 187, estimate 0,85-1 million rubles) went under in the bargaining room for 900 thousand rubles. And a couple of books about the war - "History of Sumy regiment" (lot 215), and "Military Encyclopedia" in 18 volumes (Lot 273) - have found their owners in the audience in the hall. Lots went for 850 and 730 thousand, respectively.

long struggled bidders for the illustrated edition of "Journey to the East of His Imperial Highness Crown Prince" Esper Ukhtomskogo (lot 171) for evaluation 420-600 thousand three volumes of the 300-day journey of the future Emperor Nicholas II of Greece, Egypt, India, China, Japan and Siberia, was bought for 650 thousand rubles. "The album with pictures from the Caucasus," 1870-80-ies (lot 209, 550-800 thousand rubles), which includes 151 picture photographer Vladimir Barkanova, went to a phone buyer, will offer for the ethnographic work of 700 thousand rubles.

But all these impressive results are the same auction prose compared with what began with the appearance of Lot 282 - the first fully lithographed books Russian Futurists Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov's "Game in Hell" (Moscow, 1912). Only 14 pages, but the text, made by hand Kruchenykh, lithographs Natalia Goncharova , hand painted watercolor and autograph twisted on the back. That's what the participants were willing to fight, regardless of the estimate. Started with 670,000 rubles, soon crossed over the upper estimate, 800,000, and after that traded to victory. Argued two - party in the hall and the buyer on the phone. First came the steps of 10,000, then 50, then 100 ... One million rubles, two million rubles, and they do not stop. In the hall of any extraneous sound, all was watching the auctioneer taking another bet of 100,000 rubles is the one, then the other. It seems that this battle will never end. It was only when the presenter Andrew took a bet of 3,000,000 rubles from the party in the hall somewhere on the other end of the phone line fell silent thought and said no, not go any further. Total breath in the room. Applause. Stormy debate. Comment from the audience: "That's what makes the crisis in Cyprus».

Viewers had a chance to see another battle similar rates in the sale of the collection of poems Rubakin "The City" - again, with illustrations by Natalia Goncharova ( Lot 343). Argued the same party in the hall and a telephone. While the estimate of the book, published in Paris in 1920, at 150-190 dotorgovalis thousand to 600 thousand rubles. This time luck was on the side of the phone buyer. Another rare edition of the Russian Futurists in the catalog of trades - the first publication of the book by Velimir Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh and Elena Elena Guro « Three "(St. Petersburg, 1913), with illustrations by Kazimir Malevich (lot 292, estimate 210-250 thousand rubles). At this time, no one clutch at the heart does not have to - book quietly went on the upper estimate telephone buyer.

And for a snack, almost at the end of trading, customers were invited to the first edition of the album "The First Horse "(Moscow, 1937), issued Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander and Varvara Stepanova (lot 444, estimate 520-650 thousand rubles). The publication is interesting not only from an artistic point of view (as an example design the front of the book masters of Constructivism), but also with the historical. In the first publication of photographs of many of the people were subsequently deemed "enemies of the people." When reprinting portraits of "enemies of the people" were retouched or removed. Today is the first version of the book is extremely rare. Per lot traded up to 670 thousand rubles. Defeated the buyer on the phone.

the whole auction was a brisk pace and with a good attitude. In the hall were buying (I counted more than 20 participants who made confrontations), joked and discussed. And to finish I would like the words of a bibliophile who has addressed to me when I looked at the items hanging on the walls of the picturesque previous auction: "This picture of the book - that's the real value».

At the auction Onuchina visited Mary, AI