on a Sunny Saturday April 9 at the auction house "Antiquarium" held a big auction day — session, two large-scale (more than 350 lots) and varied auction.

At the first session, the start of trading on which was given in two hours of the day, participants offered an interesting and varied collection titled "Erotica. Rare books, prints, photographs. Painting, graphics and applied art". Lot 171 of the catalogue has made books erotic orientation, created in the period from XVIII to XXI century, European and Asian paintings, drawings, sculpture in the Nude, full-scale studies, as well as collections of postcards and other mass production.

New domestic auction theme auction drew to the hall and new faces: this time the auction was attended by several newcomers.

For a half hour, which kept the drawing of the first session, a dozen of participants in the room, Internet connection (unlike most other auction houses, on auction "Antiquarium" in real time bring together players of two online-площадок), absentee bidder and phone sold out 87 of 170 lots (51 % of the catalog), and a bronze figure-кундштюк "Lady in chair" was removed before the start of trading. Erotic lots sold 9.1 million, or 60 % of the average total estimate.

the Most active participants of the first session of the trades made online-игроки, bought 31 of 87 lots sold, hall scored 24 times, absentee bid won 21 times and 11 times won the phone.

the First serious, involving at least six opponents, the battle unfolded in the beginning of the auction, with the drawing of lot 8 — album "Raccolta pornografica" ("Pornographic collection") 30 sheets original graphics created in Naples in 1836. Together with correspondence by the participant, with rates of 26 000 rubles started the bidding for the lot in dispute for the possession of the album took three phone player and multi online-претендентов. In the end, with 26 000 rubles the price increased by almost four times, up to 110 000, for which the album with a dedication of count Bobrinsky, count Aleksey Olsufiev on the flyleaf and left the winner on the Internet.

One of the most effective, with a price rise of more than 10 times above the start, was the sale of lot 42 — collection of six unique cards, issued in Russia in the early XX century. For the possession of a collection of intimate scenes from peasant life fought several Internet-игроков, two halls and a party on the phone, with a modest 15, 000 starting in a few dozen steps they raised the price to 155 000 rubles, for which they got the winner in the hall.

• table Lamp in the style of ar-деко. Western Europe, beginning of XX century Vienna bronze, gilding, patina, pearl, marble. 26 × 22,5 × 12
  Empire. April 9, 2016. Lot 77
  Estimate: 400,000 to 600,000 rubles.
  sale Price: 480 000 RUB.
• Paired sculptures, "the Dancer loie fuller". Germany. Meissen porcelain manufactory. Sculptor Theodor Eichler (Eichler). 1935
  Porcelain, polychrome painting, gilding. Height: 28 and 27
  Empire. April 9, 2016. Lot 90
  Estimate: 300 000-500 000 rubles.
  sale Price: 380 000 rubles.

Despite the abundance of paintings, drawings and antiquarian publications, the highest result for erotic session trading showed the elegant cast bronze with mother of pearl and gold Desk lamp works the Vienna of the early XX century (lot 77). With 400, 000 start, against several Internet-участников, the lamp has grown in the price to 480 000 rubles, which went to the winner.

Vienna bronze, by the way, took second place among sold in the first part of the auction. Lamp "Arab girl playing with Puma" (lot 20) by the sculptor Anton Chotka, attracted the attention of Internet and telephone two players and went on the phone for 440 000 rubles from the start 400 000.

Generally a selection of Vienna bronze in the directory — is one of the biggest successes of the organizers of the auction. Sculptures of horsewomen, dancers and just naked girls in the form of lamps, and table mundshtukom compositions differed, that is, like hotcakes. 12 of 19 lots sold Vienna bronze brought in a moneybox of "Nikita" just under a third of total revenue trading — 2 645 000. Surprisingly, almost all were sold with little bargaining, and almost all — on the Internet.

not the Most expensive bronze lot, ironically, is China. Twin figures of "the Dancer loie fuller" (lot 90), released in 1935 Meissen porcelain manufactory, competed several participants in the Internet. From the start of 300 000 rubles got the winner for 380 000.

the Highest hammer price for a work is not decorative-прикладного, and fine art were the start of 300 000 rubles, which agreed to pay for the oil "Reclining Nude" Americano-венгерского artist Frida Pala (lot 103) one of the Internet-игроков.

By the way, the section of fine arts is another success for "Empire" the selection of lots. Besides bronze, porcelain and postcards, great success this time enjoyed painting and graphics of the sixties Igor Voroshilov, sold at 100 %.

the Second session of bidding, called the "St. Petersburg collection. Samizdat. The underground. Rare books, autographs, graphics, photographs", was more successful than the first. For a half hour of auction, the hammer had gone 130 of 185 lots (70% of the catalog). Total revenue for the second session exceeded 5.2 million rubles and amounted to almost 105 % (!) of the average total estimate its catalog. Unlike erotica, self-published primarily interested in the hall, where 86 of 130 lots sold, 22 times won the phone, 17 — the Internet, and only 5 lots sold for an absentee rates.

• [Samarin V. P.] Valentin Til Maria Samarin. Joseph Brodsky. From the series "Russian Paris". 1988
  Author's imprint. 38,5 × 51
  Empire. April 9, 2016. Lot 351
  Estimate: 60 000-100 000.
  sale Price: 280 000 rubles.
• Dragomoschenko, A. T., Prikhod'ko G. Book-выставка. HP: samizdat, 1974. 26 S. 13. photo ил.; 13 cardboard folders. Spread each — photo G. Prikhodko and A. Dragomoshchenko poem from the cycle "the Great monotony of love". Made in a single copy.
  three. April 9, 2016. Lot 254
  Estimate: 30,000 to 50,000 rubles.
  sale Price: 230 000 RUB.

the Greatest popularity in the second part of the trades used again, not books, and photographs, especially photos associated with the individual and circle of Joseph Brodsky.

the Most expensive lot of the second session was the notebook by Sergei Gorodetsky with handwritten autographs of poems 1943-1949, (lot 177), which added 200,000 to 370,000 rubles, and departed to the buyer on the phone.

In the second place — photograph of Joseph Brodsky 1988 from the series "Russian Paris" photographer, representative of the "other art" Valentine (til Maria) Samarina (lot 351). The photo competed in the party room, online-игрок and the applicant on the phone. With 60 000 start lot was the winner in the hall for 280 000.

Completes our virtual top-три lot 254 — self-published "Book-выставка" A. T. Dragomoschenko and G. Prikhodko from the collection of V. Valran. The book, created in a single copy in 1974, with a modest start of 30,000 rubles grew in value up to 230 000 rubles, which went on the phone party, perekopivka rates of rivals in the Internet and room.

One of the most effective draws lots of the second session of the auction "KABINET" on April 9 was an interesting copy of the publication L. Ginzburg, "On Lyric poetry" — proofreading of the book with the author's corrections and notes (lot 188). With 50, 000 start, in a dispute between a party in the hall and the absentee bidder, the book has increased in price four times and went to the gym for 200 000 rubles.

to Step over the threshold of 100 000 rubles in the second part of trading managed another seven lots. Among them three books: self-published the first copy of book "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak (lot 175), who went for 100 000 50 000 start; a collection of poems of I. Brodsky — typed copy 1972 (lot 180), inherited a new owner for 110 000 with the same starting price, and Fax a copy of the book "Peter the Void" by V. Pelevin with the author's autograph (lot 334) — 120 000 with 10 000 start by absentee rate.

In the category of "100 000" were also photographs: two images of Joseph Brodsky and Ilya Efimov (lot 185) went for 105 000 rubles from the start to 10 000, two photos of Joseph Brodsky and Sergei Dovlatov (lot 209) were sold for 145 000 with 100 000 start, the photo Konstantin Kuzminsky by B. Smelov (lot 309) reached a hammer price of 130 000 rubles from the start to 15 000 rubles, portrait of Alexander Khvostenko V. P. Samarina (lot 348) went to a new owner for 135 000 rubles from the start of 60 000 rubles.

In conclusion, for lovers of statistics will sum up the total result of two sessions of the auction. Three hours of trading were sold 217 of 355 lots (61 %), of which 110 were lots went into the hall, 33 — on the phone, 26 lots were sold to absentee rate and 48 — on the Internet. The total proceeds of the day amounted to more than 14.3 million rubles, or 71 % of the average total estimate of all lots 355 — is a very strong result, especially for such a diverse collection of auction. Congratulations to "art" with a well conducted auction and waiting for the next auction.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI