A new record of the Russian antiquarian market set at auction "Russian enamel"
ARTinvestment.RU   19 октября 2016

At auction "the Poetic heritage of Russia", which took place on October 13, the instance of the lifetime editions of poems by Velimir Khlebnikov "Ladomir" autographed by the author sold for a record 18 million rubles

the Auction was held at the office of the "literary Fund" in Nizhny Kislovskiy lane. By the beginning of the auction in the audience were about two dozen people ready to fight for rare editions of Russian poets. Selection of the auction was outstanding. A separate rare books (same "Ladomir" Khlebnikov) came to auction for the first time. And the interest in them was shown the appropriate. Participants@-"heavyweights" effortlessly exceeds the estimate, if it was not about millions of rubles, and the rates are much more modest. Total revenue trades reached 175% of the average total estimate (37.33 million rubles) — due to multiple exceeding estimates seven top-лотами. Only 370 lots went under the hammer 184 (almost half). Bought a lot of the participants in the room, by phone, via the Internet.

the Main event of this auction and the whole auction of the year on the Russian antiquarian market was the sale of the only lifetime edition of the poem "Ladomir" Velimir Khlebnikov (lot 112). The publication, issued in Kharkov in the summer of 1920 in the amount of only 50 copies, not for sale, accompanied by a legend, though friends of Klebnikov, received in gift from the author of these books, most of them almost immediately started on cigarettes due to a shortage of tissue paper. Today, according to researcher futurism AE Parnisa only seven copies of "Ladomir". Up for auction was an instance of inskript of the poet to his publisher Petnikova: "Petnikova from Velimir Khlebnikov 26 VII 20 I'll see you soon Velimir".

Book with this story has caused a predictable stir. However, no one expected that the lot will exceed your big start of 1.5 million rubles in 12 times! The first two candidates in the room with swift steps to 500 thousand rubles, practically without pauses, reached the sum of 10 million rubles. Then the auction steps was increased to 1 million rubles. The $ 12 million one of the internal participants, according to-видимому, having exhausted your limit, retreated. But the fight suddenly came the player on the phone, from the person whose rate of 13 million rubles was made by the Director of the auction house. Now the argument went between the telephone customer and one of the original applicants in the hall. The phone tried to take the opponent into submission, pausing and choosing poluchali 500 thousand rubles., but full-time player every time without hesitation equalized amount to a multiple of a million. Nine more bets made by the opponents before the breathless hall, and finally, hammering Helen Gorsky was notified about the new record of the antiquarian market of Russia — 18 million rubles Applause. Lot, as you can guess, went to uncompromising party in the hall.

the Book Klebnikov broke the previous record of domestic second-hand market, established in November 2014, when the publication of "Russian folk pictures" D. A. Rovinsky has sold over 14.5 million rubles in ruble terms (prices are subject to auction house Commission). For the auction house "Russian enamel" to Klebnikov's the most expensive sale was that the collection "Kobzar" by T. Shevchenko for 11 million rubles (in November of 2015-го).

But not Khlebnikov scored a single auction on October 13. Some more impressive sales of course, we can't ignore. Nos 6 and 7 were two of the greatest rarities — 1-й room "the Collector" (lot 6) and all 5 rooms of "the Nest" (lot 7). These poliennali-полуальманахи was released in 1829-1831. under the leadership of poet V. A. Zhukovsky as a textbook for acquaintance with Russian culture and language first persons of the state. We are talking primarily about a young heir Alexander (the future Emperor Alexander II). In the collections along with the works of Zhukovsky published and writings of his pupils. Since these journals were intended only for members of the Imperial family and the nearest to them of the court circle, their circulation was extremely small ("the Collector" — only 10 copies, and the "Ant" — 40). As a result, for the first issue of "the Collector" (B. M., 1829) the bargaining was between telephone and face-to-face party with 350 thousand to 1.6 million RUB Insistently was a phone player. And for a complete set of the five rooms of the anthology "the Anthill, literaturnye sheets published by unknown society unlearned men" (SPb., 1831) was a serious battle between the same two rivals and the Internet. Estimate for the lot was 2.8–3 million rubles, but the participants effortlessly overcame estimate, and only stopped at around 5 million rubles. And again won the telephone party.

the First book of poems, the novice poet Boris Pasternak's "Twin in clouds", published in 1913 (with the date "1914" in the title) in an amount of 200 copies and then met the famous Mayakovsky and his company, with a scornful irony, was sold for 800 thousand rubles. player in the hall (lot 80; assessment of 750-800 thousand roubles).

Any edition always adds to the attractiveness in the eyes of customers, the presence of autograph. And in the case of poetry collections copyright inskript becomes one of the main pricing factors. Autographs of poets of the Silver age collector of many, today it is very popular collecting area. Therefore, it is not surprising that poetic the auction most of the autographs sold out at very good prices. So, over 300 thousand RUB to the buyer in the room had gone first book of poems by Alexander Block (lot 34; assessment 240-250 thousand rubles). Essay Maximilian Voloshin "About Repin", with handwritten dedication "Alexandra Alekseevna, the accomplice of this crime" in the struggle of the Internet, the hall and the phone twice exceeded the estimate and got the result a telephone buyer for 480 thousand rubles (lot 70; estimate 220-250 thousand rubles). Six books Viacheslav Ivanov (one of them autographed) was sold in the hall for 150 thousand rubles (lot 31; assessment 140-150 thousand rubles). Published in 1914, "Night flute" — first book of poems, Nikolai Aseev — with autograph of the author has reached the upper ceiling estimate of 350 thousand rubles (lot 79). A copy of the "Poem event" Konstantin Bolshakov (lot 86), who had not just a dedication on the title page, but written by hand (presumably removed by the censor) line, was purchased for 400 thousand. in the evaluation of 220-240 thousand RUB Second book of poems of the same K. Bolshakov, "the Sun is on the decline. The second book of poems. 1913-1916" autographed has reached the same 400 thousand. (lot 87; assessment 300-320 thousand rubles).

But of course the most desirable in this series autographs was boldly written in pencil a brief dedication "Karp G. Korotkov. Mayakovsky" 2-м edition of "a Cloud in trousers" (M: ASIS, 1918). A lot of the arguing room and Internet. After a 1.5 mln head to the party at once made a bid of 1.9 million rubles, than stole online-участников hunting to bargain further (lot 101; assessment 1-1,2 million roubles).

a few More times this player in the room resorted to such tactics: to jump in one fell swoop a few-тройку auction steps and quickly take the lot have tarried opponent. The famous Parisian book of Ilya Zdanevich "Ledentu headlights" (Iliazd. Ledentu headlights. Babylike. Virta f 5 actions. Action 5 / my Naum Granovsky, set hacks. Paris: Editions 41°, 6 Aug 1923), for example, he bought, bet of 1 million rubles immediately after 600 thousand rubles (lot 171; estimate 350-400 thousand rubles).

In General, an impressive auction of the fights this time was enough to get a few hours of the auction action flew by. Heartily congratulations to the team of the "literary Fund" with a great record and good sales. And the next live auction on October 22 will be devoted to another interesting topic — painting, drawing and DPI, and print media on the topic of fine art.

by Maria Onuchina, AI