in Sunday, November 17th auction house " Russian enamel " held auctions number 6, " Russian and Western European art , collectibles ».

auction , the final fall session trading was intended to be a significant event in the world of auction Moscow. For this catalog - and in terms of painting and drawing, and in the part devoted to the decorative arts - was presented to the authors of a number of museum quality , including B. Polenov , Korovin , Bogdanov- Belsky and others, several works by Faberge .

special attention at this time the organizers of the auction have given the book drawing : for sale was billed nearly 120 graphic works , united nearly 70 lots .

again been declared a string (18 lots) Russian lapidary stamps - rare collector's items value. At previous auctions have become the subject of printing the most persistent labor, and this time in the " Russian enamels " have decided to repeat the success - and no mistake .

traditional strengths directory " Russian enamel " - a selection of decorative applied art, pieces of enamel, glass and ceramics .

selection of items looked very appealing, so to two hours of the day , which was appointed to the start of the auction, the auction room , even on a Sunday and the bad weather, was a full house . In close quarters, but not mad nearly four dozen people were looking forward to the start of trading . The start was given about the third quarter : According to the auctioneer , the organizers took the last absentee bids .

rate trading was generally good : for all 288 lots, even with the unexpected happened before the 189- m lot break, had three hours. Participants in the audience supported this pace and almost did not miss : the time of announcements last lot in the audience had more than half the people. By the way , boring and tightened trades sometimes forced to leave the room , even those who are not averse to bargain for things out of the back of the catalog , whereas if the auction is dynamic , even those who are not particularly interested in the latest items , often go watch the scene , and sometimes even themselves drawn into the bargain .

Auction opened large ( 120 lots ) section of painting and graphics. Unfortunately, a large number of sales in the string of happening, despite the fact that starts on many lots ( 18, 23 , 26, 31 , etc.) were on average 500 000 less than the low estimate. Most of the of nearly two and a half million of the proceeds in this section must be attributed to the lot 35 - the painting " Paris Boulevard at Night" by Konstantin Korovin. For this work (by the way , the most expensive lot of the auction ) traded just two phone and absentee bid , which together , in 6 steps from start to 1,300,000 rubles brought the final score to 1.8 million rubles. Took a picture of the buyers on the phone .

KA Korovin Paris boulevard at night. Late 1920s - 1930s paper on cardboard , oil. 39 × 53 Russian enamel. 17.11.2013 . Lot 35 Estimate: 1 300 000-2 800 000 rubles Result: 1,800,000 rubles Source : auction-rusenamel.ru

With the end of the section of painting and graphics trades have gone much better .

Of the remaining 168 lots were sold 85 (50.6 %) in the amount of 9,753,000 rubles (31, 41 %of the average estimate of lots ) that even slightly above average this year .

String icons ( 7 lots) caused quite a strong interest from potential buyers. Despite the fact that as a result of this section is left only one lot - a carved icon in a silver frame "Resurrection " in 1785 (lot 121) , for the others also competed : the room, and phone numbers , and zaochku - though to win the struggle often , alas, the reserve price .

One of the major purchases in the evening there was a silver : for 1 million rubles, start by absentee rate went lot 167 - silver decorated with polychrome pitted enamel and gold-plated cup company NV Nemirova - Kolodkina , 1880 - 90s .

Cup in the style of historicism . Russia , Moscow , the firm NV Nemirova - Kolodkina , 1880 -90th Silver; notched polychrome enamel, gold-plated Russian enamel. 17.11.2013 . Lot 167 Estimate: 1 000 000-1 250 000 rubles Result: 1,000,000 rubles Source : auction-rusenamel.ru

An interesting bargaining went on Lot 164. Handpainted enamel silver plaquette depicting the enthronement of Mikhail Romanov for almost 10 minutes did not yield to each other player in the hall and the buyer on the phone. From the start of 300,000 rubles lot went into the hall with the excess of the upper estimate for 550,000 rubles , proving once again the relevance of the Romanov theme (complete , however , the patterns - just remember going now at the Manezh exhibition ).

But of course, the evening was a star turn section of stamps. At some point, even create the impression that the majority of participants in the hall waiting for his name. With a significant excess of the estimate (sometimes up to 20 times , if we are talking about the lower border ) went all 18 presented in section lots. And fought for virtually every printing, auction lasted ten times ( 20 or more ) steps , often fought for the lot and part-time rate , and the audience (a few people) , and several phones. Here are a few very interesting results : in 20 steps from start to 27,000 rubles at the rate of part-time ( Estimé 6 000-18 000 ), the price of printing of rock crystal in the form of a bust of Pushkin (lot 171) reached 90 000, won by the buyer phone. The same phone and won another rare item - a seal with the coat of arms of nobility of State Councilor Solomonovicha Lazar Polyakov and the slogan " God is my help " (lot 178 ) went to him for 110,000 rubles (estimate 5 000-25 000 ) from the start in 27 000 for part-time rate .

very popular with buyers in the audience enjoyed the painted glasses from the glass of the Romanov theme. All three of these lots - Glass with a picture of Crown Prince Alexander II (lot 198), with the faces of glass with the image of the crown princess Maria Alexandrovna (lot 199 ) and the glass with the image of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna (Lot 200 ) - were raffled among the contenders in the hall and went into the middle twice as high as the start .

real event the auction was bargaining for the sculpture dedicated to the First World war (lot 251). By itself, a rather big , it was the result , perhaps, exceeding the record pm start : from a modest 20,000 rubles this porcelain composition " in good state of preservation , with the gluing legs mikroskolom and technological defects " in dozens of steps , with the participation of the hall and a few phone sold for 420,000 rubles ( 21 times higher than the start !) more successful purchaser in the hall .

Monument to the first World war. Russia , the plant Kaulina (?) , First quarter of the twentieth century Porcelain painting, gilding , silvering . 20 × 12 × 11,5 Russian enamel. 17.11.2013 . Lot 251 Estimate: 20 000-55 000 Result: 420,000 rubles Source : auction-rusenamel.ru

The final part of trade , especially against such an impressive result was fairly evenly : 37 of the remaining 13 lots were sold , mainly on the start or in the range of the estimate .

Now statistics. In the course of the auction sold 104 of 288 lots ( 36.11 %of total) in the amount of 12,093,000 rubles, which is 16.88 %of the mean estimate. The average result on the overall level of trading in 2013 . The tone this time asking phone : almost half ( 50) of the lots sold was purchased that way. Much has been and absentee rates, but were successful only 24 of the 69. Most rooms varied wavelike : it was evident that many have come here for specific subjects and are just waiting for them, not being interested in everything else. In the hall in the end it took 30 auction items .

Result of the auction came out mixed. On the one hand, a full house in the audience , the participants on the phones and more than fifty absentee rates. We refer here also active participants, a very decent fight for the lots and the result is higher than the average for the year in the DPI. On the other - in a quiet section of painting and drawing, where, despite the presence of big names , big results did not work .

Such heterogeneity of the results of trades rather reflects a certain unevenness of the catalog , especially the first part. With truly museum-quality works there coexisted unknown paintings by unknown artists in large numbers, such as the specific material as book illustrations (especially for children) , offered for sale together with ordinary interior design still lifes and landscapes. With this collection focus is lost , it is unclear who may be addressed to such a meeting . And the lost person might be who found something for yourself , whether it is meeting a little more uniform .

Maria Kuznetsova , AI