Last Saturday , December 7 auction house Znak Art finished the 2013 season fifth regular trading Russian paintings, drawings and objects of decorative art XVIII - XX centuries «Opus 5 ».

directory in which the organizers have included nearly 300 lots , decorated with the names of artists museum level - for example , Lev Lagorio , Julia Clover , Nicholas Dubovsky , , Apollinaris Apollinaris M. Vasnetsov , Philip Malyavina , Ivan Puni , Erte and other traditionally strong came out and PDI section in the top lots which means , for example, silver ladle Russian jewelry firm "F. Lorie A. " height 36 cm, weighing nearly 6.5 kg and a preliminary estimate of 15 million rubles. Traditional for " Znak -Art " sections of Fine Arts and PDI at the last auction added antiquarian section in which the organizers suggested slightly less than 50 lots of rare books mid XVIII - mid XX century .

Despite on the big names , attractive top lots and innovation , the auction was rather calm working environment , with traditionally impeccable confident work auctioneer Andrew Haase , let no special sensations , but with good , significantly above average ( relative to the overall picture of the current year ) result.

at the auction , which began at 12 am , in the saleroom hotel Marriott Royal Aurora gathered little more than two dozen people. Seven of them have won a total of 19 lots , 12 lots at this time buyers got on the phone 31 times won absentee bid. Total revenue organizers of the auction was 29,724,500 rubles ( 47.9 %of the average estimate) , what they can and congratulate .

opened the auction section of painting and drawing, consisting of 115 lots. Expectedly , he became the most productive and profitable section of the auction 33 lots sold in the amount earned 22.442 million rubles. Lots went mainly on start and absentee rate - including the most expensive work of these trades , canvas "White Night on the Neva" Lev Lagorio Felixovich (Lot 4) , sold for 6.5 million rubles .

LF Lagorio White Night on the Neva. 1886 Oil on canvas. 43 × 70 Base Price: 6.5 million rubles Result: 6.5 million rubles Znak Art . 07.12.2013 . Lot 4 Source : znak-art.ru

not lost organizers and work Vasily Surikov . Picture of the artist's daughter Olga - " Portrait of the daughter " ( 1897) (Lot 11) - and etude "Crimea . Ai-Petri "(lot 10 ), written Surikov during one of his trips to Ukraine , before the trades were seen as their absolute top lots , both went to the canvas owners absentee rates starting prices - 3 000 000 and 4 000 000 rubles, respectively .

SURIKOV VI Portrait OV Surikov. 1897 Oil on canvas. 30,5 × 21 Base Price: 3 000 000 Result: 3 000 000 Znak Art . 07.12.2013 . Lot 11 Source : znak-art.ru

SURIKOV VI Crimea . Ai-Petri. Beginning of XX century . Oil on canvas. 29,6 × 42,1 Base Price: 4 000 000 rubles Result: 4,000,000 rubles Znak Art . 07.12.2013 . Lot 10 Source : znak-art.ru

Section photographs, which proposed 17 lots , can not boast of record results , but that it took one of the most stubborn fights last auction . For a small cabinet size photo Rubinstein (Lot 137) fought two participants in the hall and the buyer on the phone for 12 steps did not want to give each other . As a result, photo left more successful player in the hall for 28 000 rubles to 12,000 rubles launch .

Unfortunately, the room is almost no attention to lots of antiquarian thong : only 6 of his 59 lots found new owners , and also to start and absentee rate. On the other hand , 10 percent of sales for the first time quite well , and we've seen some background debuts and did quite an impressive result .

large section of PDI , which were composed of ceramic items , glass, silver , jewelry, marked only a couple of significant results : 1 120 000 rubles per buyer sends correspondence pair of porcelain vases with bronze to the second half of the XIX century (lot 217 ) , starting at 800,000 rubles, and also by correspondence rate has gone silver with crystal vase fruit late XIX - early XX century (lot 251 ).

With much enthusiasm greeted the participants who concluded the auction section icons XVIII - beginning of XX century : a bargaining entered and telephones , and the audience , and absentee rates . A striking example of such a struggle involving all - the dispute over the icon "St. Nicholas " in a silver frame 1899-1908 years (lot 286 ), which entered absentee rate and several people in the audience. The first 10 steps from start to 500 000, were present at 50 000 rubles, and then - after reaching a million - at 100,000 . As a result, won a lot thrust buyer in the room , offering $ 1.3 million rubles, which is the highest result of the evening in the strings of icons, just two steps final price was not enough to triple the estimate .

Congratulations to the organizers of the completion of such a difficult season on a decent level , and wish the auction house " Znak Art" new records in 2014 .

Maria Kuznetsova , AI