Antiquarian auction "Cabinet" on February 11. A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   16 февраля 2017

Books, autographs, photographs and postcards were sold by 43.7%, totaling more than 1.6 million rubles

Saturday, February 11, the auction house "Russian enamel" held 42-е auction — "Antiquarian books, autographs, photographs and posters".

compared with the upcoming Grand auction of paintings and drawings (February 18) and used books (February 25), the catalogue of the auction what-либо rarities or millions of starts could not boast (estimate of lots does not exceed the mark of 100 thousand rubles). However the auction on February 11 will be remembered as one of the most democratic and affordable auctions "Cabinet". Beginners auction market these events provide a unique opportunity to make first purchase, you can feel the atmosphere of the auction hall.

the practice shows that the beginners of such events, alas, is not always known.

last Saturday, for example, in the hall of the auction house there were hardly a dozen people, mostly dealers, came for lots of certain subjects. The main bargaining and struggle of this time arose among the Internet-участников, which in peak moments of the auction, there were over forty people. These observations are confirmed by the statistics: of the 156 sold that day lots of the audience got a 30; 13 shopping was done by telephone 17 — absentee buyers, but the Internet-игрокам left right 96 lots, i.e. more than 60% of the total sold.

note also that a hammer price of more than 70% of the lots sold did not exceed the figure of 10 thousand rubles.

the Auction was held at a fairly fast pace (not counting the multiple delays related to technical issues): auctioneer Alex (this time replacing the Elena mountain) to clear all 357 lots had one and a half hours.

the Most expensive purchase of the day was the selection of two items related to Igor Severianin. For a photo of the poet with his autograph and book Victoria regia 1915 edition (lot 108) started to bargain with 80 thousand rubles, the lot went to a buyer in the room for 100 thousand rubles.

In second place rating price last auction — collector's preservation of the book "the Word about Igor's regiment", illustrated by the Palekh master Ivan Golikov, in publishers cardboard slipcase, stylized Palekh lacquers, Academia publishing house, 1934 (lot 244). The auction started with 40 thousand roubles absentee bids, the lot in the struggle between the parties on the Internet and the hall grew almost 2.5 times and was sold for 90 thousand rubles absentee buyer.

the Three holders of the highest results of the auction closes the book, "Comments the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1726 year" [Commentarii Academiae scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae] (lot 1). The first (of fourteen) collection of scientific works of the Academy, published only in Latin and intended for distribution abroad, has gone to a new owner at the start, for 80 thousand rubles by correspondence rate.

the Record of the evening in the growth rates of the hammer relative to the numbers of the start were two lots, both were played in the last part of the catalog. First, some participants in the Internet with commendableenthusiasm clashed for the book "messenger" Alexei Tarkovsky with the author's corrections of the author, and deployed a dedicatory inscription Tarkovsky: "Dear Galina Loginova and Alexei Fedorovich Kozlovsky with a wish of happiness in the memory of early meetings in the hope of a future. 25/VIII 1969. Andrei Tarkovsky" on the half title (lot 337). With a fairly modest start in 8 thousand roubles, in the course of the auction, the lot grew in price by 5 times and gone into new hands for 42 thousand rubles.

an Even higher performance (more than 6 times higher than the start and 11 times the upper limit of estimeyta!) showed a drawing of Russian obscene collection of poems "a Wreath of Venus," published in Japanese publisher Apollo in 1986 (lot 355). With 3.6 thousand rubles, start by absentee rate, the book was played out between the Internet-участниками and got the winner for 22 thousand rubles.

And finally: six lots, containing art postcards 1919-1955 years with color and black-and-белыми reproductions of works by the artist David Burliuk (lots 297-302), in full strength was at the start (1-3 thousand) only buyer in the room.

Forward to the next auction "Russian enamel". Judging by the directories, should be interesting, noisy and expensive!

Maria Kuznetsova, AI