April 18 auction house "Antiquarium" held its first auction of fine art — "From the cart to the rocket. 300 years of Russian painting and graphics", dedicated to the Day of cosmonautics. This is a big step forward for the auction house, previously specialized primarily on bukinistika and decorative-прикладного art. The development of a new trend in auction activity is always risky, because you never know how the audience will react, it is impossible to avoid some defects in the organizational plan, etc. Therefore, to decide on such a risky event, it is necessary to have remarkable confidence and strong auction podborki@

it is safe to say that this risk is largely justified. For the first auction in the new subject of the outcome of Saturday looks optimistic: the hammer took more than 45 % of put up for auction of 180 lots for a total sum over 2 million roubles (39,29 % of the mean estimate of the directory).

Surprised by the order of the lots. The entire directory, the organizers were divided into 6 genre-тематических sections: "Engraving, lithograph, etching, Painting and drawing", "Sketch" (it was the theatre schedule), "Book illustration", "Cartoon" and "Poster". Within sections compiled by lots-разному: chronologically, story-based, authorship. Strangely, after a string of what works-либо author in one section, it was possible to stumble upon a couple of his works and in the next section of the catalogue, which is somewhat confusing. In addition, despite the initiation of the auction to the Day of cosmonautics, in the structure of the directory the theme of space development is almost never found, except the five last lots poster razdel@

for the First time in my memory, none of the 180 lots in the catalogue was not made any absentee bids. The absolute majority of lots sold — 62 of the 81 (76 %) — was purchased online, 18 — by phone, in the hall took only one pokupka@

auction Results sections as follows. The most profitable, brought in the Treasury auctions 608 500 rubles, was the string "Graphics, lithography, etching", which went 24 of 45 lots. The most expensive lot of the section (and the second value the day of purchase) was lot 5 — zelenogradvodokanal plan of the Imperial capital city of Saint-Петербурга from the album "House of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences, Library and Kunstkammer, with a brief indication of all artistic and natural things" of 1741. Lot, which has been struggling for two-party Internet and phone, with start at $ 40,000 went to a phone bidder for 135 000. This same lot was the most profitable auction, in which the majority of transactions is done for a starting price or with a small excess. String "Graphics, lithography, etching" was awarded one of two for the whole night of attempts hall to join in the bidding. A lithographic portrait of count Paskevich-Эриванского, executed the lithograph by Eduard Kaiser in the second half of the XIX century (lot 19), caught one of the participants in the room and Internet-покупателя and went online-участнику 30 000 rubley@

the Most successful in percentage — of 66.67 % of the lots and 56,91 % for the money — with total revenue just under 300 000 was the string of "Caricature". In it the most expensive lot was the ink drawing on paper 1920-30-х, Pavel Pavlovich Matyunina, better known as "PAM" (lot 140). From the start to 30 000 roubles the lot was sold on the phone for 40 000 rubley@

150 000, the highest price paid for a very nice summer floral watercolor still life "Bouquet in a vase" (1969), a painting by famous artist Vadim Fedorovich Ryndin (lot 71). The lot at the starting price got to one of the Internet-участников auction@

Only the purchase of the hall was lot 175 — gouache original-макет advertising "TV Beam" 4-й cover page of the magazine "Ogonek" artist Viktor Semenovich Klimashin, gone to a new owner by the start for 18 000 rubley@

to sum up, I would like to mention confident start of a new direction of activity of the auction house "Antiquarium", a wonderful auctioneer Xenia, which is practically without blots spent his career in the second auction, and wish house "Antiquarium" continued success at auctions of fine iskusstva@

Maria Kuznetsova, AI