"Mysterious passion..." the sixties "Cabinet". The results of the auction
ARTinvestment.RU   15 декабря 2016

The selection of lots from the archive of Felix Medvedev went to 73 % and has brought to organizers more than 4 million rubles

December 10 at the auction house "Russian enamel" held an interesting thematic auction: the public was offered 75 lots — books, documents, manuscripts, associated with the names of poets-шестидесятников, from the archive of the well-known journalist Felix Medvedev. The auction catalogue was entitled in tune with the recent film adaptation of the novel by V. Aksyonov — ""Mysterious passion". 75 poetry lots to 75-летию Felix Medvedev."

Such trades are very rare in modern Moscow auction arena, especially in the segment of used books. In fact, we have before us a unique example of the capsule (curator) of the collection. In the world of fashion capsule collection created in collaboration invited expert and well-known brand, such collection of popular and relevant today. And it seems that this trend started to gradually move from the world of fashion and fine art in the world themed rare book auction. Lately on the auctions repeatedly sold out the famous large book collection, rare book auctions often expose Thong from a particular archive, but separate themed auction, collected by the owner from its extensive collection, offhand I do not remember, so it was interesting from all sides.

and the figures are great. Almost an hour of time the auction went under the hammer 55 of the 75 put up for auction lots totaling 4,124 mln RUB. — by almost 300 % (!!!) of the average total estimate of all lots of the catalogue. More — 23 lots — bought online-игроки, but the most expensive purchases were made that evening on the phone, which eventually went to 18 lots, 14 have played the buyers in the room.

Three-quarters of total revenue days were obtained in the course of drawing the first lot in the catalog. Handwritten literary diary of Anna Akhmatova 1920-х years even before the auction had not even topped the list of top-лотов, and stood out from the rest of the catalog. But I think the hammer price if not surpassed the wildest expectations of the organizers of the auction, we were very close to him. Notebook calico embossed cover of the early twentieth century with 36 pages of dated notes of Anna Akhmatova, regarding her professional activities and literary environment, opened the auction with a starting price of 800 thousand rubles. In the fight of the Internet and the phone book went up almost 4 times and was sold for 2.9 million rubles. on the phone. Great result, repeating the second price auction for sales of Akhmatova's manuscripts at the auction "Russian enamel".

Simple arithmetic shows that the share of the remaining 54 lots sold accounted for only a little more than 1.2 million rubles in revenue, on average, 22.7 thousand RUB over the lot. But also here has not done without-таки dramatic, tenfold, price hikes and hot encounters.

Despite the loss in the fight for the main lot catalog, the players on the Internet clearly has not lost the fighting spirit. It became clear during the drawing of the book "Poems"Arseny Tarkovsky signed by the author on the title page (lot 13). With a modest 5.5 thousand RUB start publishing 1974 it was sold to one of the online-участников, pereprevshego room and telephone of the opponent, over 55 thousand.

the Most expensive purchase in the hall became, incidentally, is another collection of Arseny Tarkovsky — "Winter day. Poems," published in the publishing house "Soviet writer" in 1980, with author's autograph to poet Yevgeny rein on the title page (lot 21). Starting from 16 thousand rubles in absentia rate, the book for which they fought telephone, Internet and party in the hall, got the last one in 120 thousand.

One of the most spectacular deals of the evening was the sale of the first edition of the novel by Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions, or goodbye blue Monday" (lot 49) with insciption Felix Medvedev and a self-portrait of Vonnegut. Owner went to auction with an estimate of 10-12 thousand rubles. and a starting price of 15 thousand rubles by correspondence rate. Quick steps in the hall, Internet and phone at the lot rose to 60 thousand. Then party on the phone will probably decide to break the rivals price, focusing on just 85 thousand RUB. But not here-то was. Bargaining continued as if nothing had happened, up to 160 thousand rubles., for which novel and went into new hands.

in Addition to individual successful and popular of the lots catalog, mentioned above, I would like to mention one of the most popular names, allocated among the variety of poets-шестидесятников, whose writings and autographs was the main part of the auction collection. The speech of Evgeny Yevtushenko. Lots associated with the name of Eugene A., was sold at 75 % (in new hands went 9 of 12) and brought to the Treasury of the organizers of the auction, more than 200 thousand rubles, the Most expensive edition of the poet and writer was the book "I break into the twenty-first century..." autographed Eugene Rhine (lot 61), which began trading with 15 thousand rubles. and gone to the gym for 55 thousand rubles.

the Most popular (judging by the persistence with which room, Internet and phone wanted to buy it) was a collection of poems Yevtushenko "Happiness and retribution. Poems 2011-2012" with the autograph of the author on the half title (lot 67), starting from 3 thousand rubles and sold on the phone for 32 thousand rubles.

Now some more statistics. Do not think that such a high result, "Empire" managed to reach the sale only of Akhmatova's diary. Nothing of the sort! Except for his estimate and the result from the calculations, the total revenue for all other sold lots exceeded 200% of their total estimate. Here's a striking result. Congratulations "Cabinet" with luck the new auction format and I am looking forward to what will happen next.

By the way, following large second-hand auction "Cabinet" — "Rare books, autographs, photographs, postcards and posters" — will be held today, December 15.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI