Vinogradov SA Lake of the Woods . 1920
Oil on canvas. 66,2 × 98,4
Three centuries . 10/11/2013 . Lot 22
Estimate: 4160 500 000 000-4
Result: 4,160,000 rubles

Quiet Sunday, Ordynka ancient Moscow mansion , full of Hall of the People - what more could the organizers before the start of the first auction ?

Only the successful tenderer .

But this is another matter , and the first - this is a successful notification about his endeavor. With that organizers coped perfectly well : a full house is not the right word , not all fit on the chairs in the hall, some had to stay in the hall and watch for a while, looking out from behind a corner . At the auction came to a total of a little more than fifty people , that's a lot of painting for the auction , let alone for the first time especially. However, there was a lot of girls to thirty , which I am not in the old way to the category of active buyers , although life changing , and maybe it's time to rethink the old views , especially because this time it was a beautiful half of humanity has been active in purchases .

Overall statistics are as follows : 23 per cent of lots sold (39 of 174 exposed ), slightly worse than the average of the internal market but it is normal for the first time. By the way , talking with friends after the auction participants , I heard that they have identified a few pictures for the purchase and sales postauktsionnyh try to bargain down . Thirty of the thirty-nine lots left to participants in the hall, five lots purchased by phone and four - by absentee rates. At first, this bias toward the hall seemed unusual, but , on reflection , I have come to the conclusion that in another for the first time and could not have been to earn credibility and clients, gain confidence - and only then will catch up with members who prefer to trade by phone or do correspondence rates . Let's hope it all ahead .

before a bid was made one lot . Initiated the process of alert forum members AI, which organized the heated debate on the forum forum.artinvestment.ru , and appealed directly to the auction house. In honor of all disputes out :

1. Auction house because took a picture from the auction .

2 . The expert organization , because after a reasoned claim conducted additional research and recognized the mistake of saying the withdrawal of its initial conclusion .

3 . The public forum in the face because he has a vast knowledge , is able to argue and defend their opinions and has a solid reputation . Our members have once again demonstrated that the "wrong" job , hitting a field of view of the forum becomes a huge problem .

The first lot was sold very early , in 1877 , oil on canvas , " the fence . Burdock and dodder » N. Dubovsky ( lot 5 ) nice work went at a good price - at the start , for 450 000. And the first lot was unsold expensive "Portrait of a laughing girl » A. Kharlamov ( lot 8 ) set to start 1.75 million rubles, the plot is a typical pattern for the author and, unfortunately, in recent times not much in demand by the market, so I think starting with a $ 30 000 ( 900 000 rubles ) would be more appropriate , but apparently did not agree with the owner. But the next item was surprised : " Still life with fruit in a wicker basket » F. MP Chumakov ( Lot 9 ) went for a record for him 950,000 rubles more expensive than before 18,000 dollars at auction did not sell - the truth, and still-lifes such was not, and were mostly portraits of women , much less interesting . The next major purchase was canvas Vasily V. Meshkov « Gursuf " (lot 16 ), sold for 1 million rubles (also a record for the auction sales of the artist) . But " Bakhchisaray » B. P. Buchanan ( Lot 17 ) for 1.95 million rubles have not found a buyer that , too, is clear: the most expensive work of Buchanan was at the peak of prices, in April 2008, bought at Sotheby's for 74,000 dollars since then more than 30 000 dollars did not sell , that's at this time did not work . Unsold and the picture was on the cover of the catalog - " On the sun » A. B. Lakhovsky ( Lot 18) , the reason is also seen in the starting amount of 3.52 million rubles ( 110,000 dollars) - again, significantly higher than the record in 2010 , 70,543 dollars , and she did not start it would be necessary , and finishing trades .

most expensive work of trades was painting " Lake of the Woods » S. Vinogradova ( lot 22 ) sold at the start , for 4,160 million rubles , the price for the artist is not prohibitive , it has been selling and under a million dollars , although it is most concerned kinds of monasteries , and for the scenery 130000 dollars is acceptable .

But what we are all " on start " yes " on start ", and trades -that were fighting for once revived the situation? Yes, there were , however, not on such amounts , but nevertheless ... For the first time participants in the audience argued for the graphics 1960 "The Man in the Hat " (lot 80 ) from the start to 55,000 rubles per 11 steps price reached 110,000 , and the picture has got one of the girls I did not at first so recklessly enrolled in the prospective buyers . The next fight was caused gouache " Pankratievsky Lane ( Sretenka )» Vladimir V. I. Distiller ( Lot 104 ) from the start of 20,000 rubles for 15 steps do not give each other the same shopper and a participant in the phone and the result has insisted on his young lady on the phone gave up the sum of 55,000 rubles. Interestingly, the auction except this picture was presented four more similar landscape Vinokur, but they have not caused not so much struggle, but even the desire to buy them (other than another who quietly went on start , 20 000 party on the phone) . A couple of these skirmishes , but worth up to 100,000 rubles .

Finally, a couple of funny sketches : during the announcement of the picture K. Kuznetsova « Chukotka" 1920 (lot 28) leading joked that now, they say , is a very interesting gift Abramovich , hoping , obviously, that this piece may be a little amuse the audience , and thereby help Online figure . Abramovich to make gifts , of course, no one was going , but the replica host unanswered (but just the opposite to the expected ) did not go : after drawing not interesting and the host announced that he had not sold , behind me there was a gloating voice : " Fuck that Abramovich ».

Although Abramovich conditionally suspended , " played his own" : a picture of BA Manakova " Reindeer " (lot 114) was sold at the start , for 385,000 rubles, hall then concluded: "It seems that Abramovich will not remain without a gift ».

Well rejoice , and for the reindeer , and for Abramovich , and , most importantly, for the new auction house " three Centuries . " Beginning has been made , much work has been done for good reason , we wish the organizers good luck and patience. Patience , because the path to a full success is not close and not simple, especially in these times of crisis either , whether the post-crisis era. And improvements to start with directory : try to exclude from its mistakes and statements that are misleading, check that the job description was not annoying gaps. The second important step - completion of site: Catalogue in PDF is very inconvenient option , be sure to add a simple option in the form of a table that does not need to load . For the following trades do not forget to inform on the page of the site of the place and time of the auction, this time of the announcement, alas, was not .

To end on a very very critical ( but necessary ) note I remind thing: the first test of a new auction stand , showed quite decent for the debut of the result and not tarnished his name nehoroshey work. And not mistaken only one who does not do anything . The work will be huge, and not long to wait for the following trades : in December, we are waiting for a new meeting at the auction " Three Centuries ».

Constantine Babulin , AI

PS: in the above 39 lots sold by auction , as expected , has not ended , and in the afternoon the next day , ie yesterday, it was reported that postauktsionnye bid in full swing and has already sold seven works .