"Russian enamel" opened the autumn season
ARTinvestment.RU   31 августа 2016

On August 27, the auction house "Russian enamel" held the first after the summer break, live auction "Rare books, autographs, photographs and posters"

the Auction was held in the new office of the "literary Fund" in Nizhny Kislovskiy lane. The auction, which was scheduled for a comfortable time — five o'clock, was held in a raised, almost festive atmosphere, guests of the auction house were greeted by a string Quartet and traditional buffet. Guests, by the way, it quite a lot (especially for the end of August): the whole evening the hall, there were nearly four dozen people. Another thirty-odd members watched the course of trading on the Internet in real time.

Over two hours of trading sold is 47.4 % directory — 127 of 268 lots (2 lots were withdrawn from the auction before the auction). Total revenue in money amounted to 13.6 million rubles, and 46.4 % of the mean estimate of the directory.

the Highest activity, despite the full house in the hall, oddly enough, showed Internet-участники that took almost half sold @lot 61 mdas. The phone won 37 times, hall — 23, 6 of 23 times was the winning distance rate.

the Tone of trading was asked draw the first lot — works "Argument, what are legitimate reasons for His Imperial Majesty Peter the First Tsar and Lord of all-Russian and protchaya and protchaya and protchaya: re-launching the war against the King Carol the 12, Swedish 1700... with the permission of His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, assembled, and published. In Sanktpeterburge, the summer of the Lord 1716, and printed in 1717". From the start of 300 000 rubles first edition of the first Russian books on diplomacy, written on behalf of and with the participation of Peter I, in the fight two telephone players, and several Internet-участников, it sold on the phone for 500 000 rubles.

the highest score on the previous evening showed a real rarity Museum — "book, which was not" (as it was described by the drafters of the auction catalog). The novel "Victor Vavich" Boris Zhitkov, released by publishing house "Soviet writer" in 1941 (lot 234), a novel that the writer thought of the "book of her life", became publicly available in 1999: the circulation of the 1941 warehouse of the publishing house did not come out; moreover, the author of the Preface to the reissue of the novel was thought to have survived only two copies of the book. A rare edition of 1941 in the bargaining went online, player, perekopivka absentee starting bid for 1 100 000 rubles.

the Second result of last Saturday (and most phone buyers) belongs, as it is written in the catalogue, "the most curious edition of Pushkin's era" and is probably very relevant in our time, the book "the Art of not paying debts, or Supplement to art to take a song a decent man," published in the Moscow printing house Aug Seeds in 1826 (lot 21). With 200 000 starting bid is the struggle for the book came from several participants in the Internet and the phone which broke the resistance of their rivals with a final bid of one million rubles exactly.

just a few steps to a million is not reached the result of another notable lot of the auction collection — album of linocuts by Pablo Picasso 1962 (lot 259). From the start of 300 000 rubles phone buyer in the fight against Internet-участником won the coveted album 800 000.

700 000 rubles paid the new owner for the unique document — handwritten autobiography of Anna Akhmatova written for the Leningrad branch of the Soviet writers ' Union in 1951.

however weighty a hammer price of 500 000 rubles made up slightly less than 10 % of all lots sold.

From the category of "up to 500,000 roubles," I would like to mention two results. The book of essays by V. Krymov "About roulette Monte-Карло, South America, gastronomy, fashion and other" 1913 (lot 127) even before the start of trading was called among the most interesting lots of the catalog and it is not surprising that she turned one of the longest duels in the evening: the Internet and the phone, starting with 50 000, long dozens of steps challenged each other's right to possession of the lot. Bargaining was loaded up with interesting clarifications regarding the contents of the book and blacklisting of the hall. Internet retreated only when the price of the lot is increased by more than four times relative to the start. The phone was won at a rate of 220 000.

more effective bargaining went on lot 170 — the certificate of the employee of Criminal investigation Department, issued in Odessa in the early 1920-х years in the name of Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev, the future writer and co-author (under the pseudonym Yevgeny Petrov), the legendary "Twelve chairs" and "Golden calf". Evgeny Kataev served in CID for three years. An outstanding event in his career occurred during his service, — detention and arrest of a close friend of Alexander Kazachinskoe, who led one of the Odessa gangs. After a while Kozaczynski write the story "the Green van" based on these events. Prototypes of the main characters of the novel became Kataev himself Kozaczynski. The rarity of the Museum level from the start of 40 000 rubles absentee rate was played between the absentee bidder and phone. Won the last offering for the document 230 000 — almost 6 times more expensive start.

Well, congratulations auction house "Antiquarium" with the opening of the season and with the new house! Hope to see many auction records at the new location.

Next head to auction "Antiquarium" will be held September 24, 2016. The results, of course, we will notify.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI