First year full-time trading in the auction house "KABINET". The results
ARTinvestment.RU   06 марта 2017

18 Feb "Russian enamel" opened the season winter/spring 2017 27-ми head to auction "old and Rare books, etchings, photographs"

According to tradition, the auction catalog, which includes nearly four hundred lots, for the convenience of customers and organizers of the auction was divided into nine thematic strings. Do note that lots within each of them were either arranged in chronological order, or collected in a separate collection, which also facilitates orientation in the auction process. In addition, almost every section of the auction was a private top-лот.

the usability of the catalogue and the quality of the General organization of the auction, which this time went surprisingly smoothly, without any-либо considerable delays, do-overs or technical failures, appreciate half a dozen people, personally present in the auction room. Thirty people participated in the auction in real time via the Internet.

within three hours of the auction time the auctioneer, "the Cabinet" failed to sell under the hammer 256 of 393 (65 %) exhibited for auction. Total revenue of the auction amounted to 8.7 million rubles — and 91.7 % of average total estimate directory. Judging by the way is manifested the activity of the bidders, "Empire", it seems, remains one of the few auction houses, where the main buyers are shopping in person. This time hall got almost 46 % sold — 117 of 256 lots, 94 lots found new owners on the Internet, 18 were purchased on the phone 27 times (out of 45) played distance rate.

the Tone of trading was asked draw the first section — "Rare books", which has sold 87 % (27 of 31) lots. The total amount of revenue amounted to almost 1.4 million rubles — 123 % of the mean estimate section and 16 % of total revenue of the day. Despite the small number of lots from all nine strings, a section of rare books has become a leader in the percentage of lots and ranked third in total revenue, behind only the g-string "St. Petersburg collection" and "the award of Andrei Bely. Manuscripts, autographs, graphics, photos". Each of them deserves a separate description, which, however, one can easily detect a couple of paragraphs below. Returning to the "Rare books", we note that the benchmark in 100 thousand roubles have overcome 4 of the 27 lots sold. Higher prices — 280 thousand rubles — in the section of rare books made up from two lots. In particular, one of the first major purchases of the day was the first translation into Russian language of essays "Life and acts of the twelve first Roman lead" Gaius Suetonius Tranquilla 1794 (lot 4). From 120 thousand rubles starting price, this book, now a century do not lose relevance in the struggle of multiple participants in online and the buyer on the phone has risen in price more than twice and got a new owner for 280 thousand rubles.

Exactly the same absentee buyer, killing the bet online-участника, paid for another topical book — the first edition (1833) of the Comedy "Woe from wit" by A. Griboyedov (lot 10).

String "Books on art" (lots 32-69) showed the average scale of the auction result in new hands took 20 of the 38 exhibited it lots (52,6 %), while total revenues amounted to almost 600 thousand rubles — 49% of the average estimate of lots section. The maximum numbers of treatments there are, however, quite match the rest of the statistics: most expensive purchase in Thong has become the reference in the Russianthe fine art of the XVII century "the Tsar's icon painters and painters of the XVII century" A. I. Uspensky, published in the Moscow printing house Snegirev in 1913 (lot 38) and gone to the Internet to start at 50 thousand rubles.

the Second number of lots section, "Soviet literature in the autographs and photographs", despite its promising title, was in last place on the total amount sold: sold 30 of the 54 lots section brought to the organizers almost exactly 200 thousand rubles — 41.8% of the mean estimate. The price of the most expensive autograph — of the book "Mercy of fate" with a dedicatory inscription of Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Written on the title page (lot 119) — amounted to 18 thousand rubles.

at the very beginning of the drawing section of the "St. Petersburg collection" (lots 124-170), it became clear that the previous several strings were, so to speak, the opening act before the real contractions: participants began to show more activity and the number online-игроков grew to three dozen. In General, the increased attention to Thong was quite expected and understandable: the auction house specialists managed to collect in this collection of truly unique items — autographs associated with the circle of Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilev, manuscripts of works by M. V. Lomonosov and F. N. Glinka, rare photos, first editions of books, etc.

as a result, in addition to one of the highest percentages of sales (sold 33 lots of 47), this string was the leader in total revenue — more than 2.7 million rubles. Moreover, it was recorded and the highest hammer price of the day: in the course of the raffle, 132 — autograph Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova Lydia Yakovlevna Ginzburg on the title page of the book "Poems/ Anna Akhmatova" 1958 edition. The autograph includes several author's corrections and two poems, written in the book hand of Anna Akhmatova. For the unique lot of collectible (even museums), the value of which is difficult to overestimate, with the launch of 700 thousand rubles to several tens of steps (often — by a half-step) fought a phone and two participants in the room. In the end the lot went to one of the full-time buyers for 1.1 million rubles.

With great success, over 165 thousand rubles to 20 thousand start, in the same hands is gone and another autograph — manuscript of unpublished poems of Lev Gumilev (son of N. Gumilev and A. Akhmatova) "to My friend. 3.1.1946" (lot 131).

is Another large-scale battle broke out for the last lot section — typewritten letter of Sergei Dovlatov Olga Lauer autographed by the author (lot 170). At a fairly modest preliminary assessment (30-60 thousand rubles), bargaining for lot started immediately with 200 thousand rubles by correspondence rate and ended only when the hammer price more than doubled, to 420 thousand rubles. The lot was on part-time rate.

the Following factsheet entitled "Winners of the award of Andrey Bely. Manuscripts, autographs, graphics, photographs," not only became the biggest — 67 lots, but also the most profitable. 82 % (55 of 67) of the lots sold brought a total of more than 1.9 million rubles, or 167% of the average total estimate section. Justiceit should be noted that half of this entire sum was raised in just one lot. But what! A sensation turned out, the draw of lot 201 — author's handwritten collection of poems by poet Vladimir Erl 1960-70-х years. With the launch of 15 thousand rubles in the struggle for the possession of the family nabrasyvanii double sheets of manuscript entered Internet-участник and two people in the room. After a few dozen steps and more than ten very tense minutes — moves in half-step, hesitation and telephone conversations, the lot grew in price in the unthinkable 56,6 (!!!) once and was bought into the hall for 850 thousand rubles. We congratulate the buyer with a victory, and the auction house — with such remarkable success!

Section "Poets and artists" (lots 238-275) sold more than 84% and brought in total 919,8 thousand — 107,2 % of the mean estimate. This is the fourth result on the total amount sold and the second — on the percentage of lots. The most expensive lot of the section was, surprisingly, the painting — oil on hardboard "Cowboy on the Prairie" 1985 brush of the leader of group "Aquarium" Boris Grebenshchikov (lot 266). With 60 thousand rubles of the start of the lot went to one of the bidders on the Internet for 100 thousand rubles. In second place — sold for 95 thousand rubles to 30 thousand rubles start lithographed portrait of Konstantin Kuzminsky work of Valery Mishin (lot 252).

Of the 38 lots of samizdat in new hands were more than 70 % — 27 publications. Total revenue amounted to 383,5 thousand — 98% of the average estimate of lots section. The highest hammer price here were 30 thousand rubles, given with the launch of 10 thousand one of the online-участников, perekopivka bid from the audience for the manuscript of Boris Constrictor "Epitaph" 1989 (lot 289). The rest of the sold lots went for prices ranging from 3 to 26 thousand rubles, bargaining with on average 4-6 steps.

String tamizdat bidders met the, admittedly, pretty cool. With the hammer went 12 of 33 lots, and total revenues amounted to only 260 thousand rubles — slightly more than a third of the average estimate of lots. Particularly popular here were the publications associated with the name of Eduard Limonov: the new hands took all 4 lots of his autographs, and the most expensive section was lot 326 — the first and second editions of the novel by E. Limonov "It's me — Eddie", who went into the hall for 70 thousand rubles from the start to 20 thousand rubles.

Completes the auction section of fine arts "From the Academy to the avant-garde. Engraving. Lithography. Graphics" of the 47 lots were sold 42.5% for the total amount of 620 thousand rubles. Among the most expensive sold was lot that contains a picture and catalog of works by Peter Galadzheva — artist, Director and actor of the Soviet theatre and cinema: lot was sold at a starting absentee rate for 200 thousand rubles.

In the second place — one of the most surprising results of the day. Etching of Elizaveta Kruglikova 1927 "Smolny" (lot 364) atthe estimate of 8-15 thousand rubles, in the fight several phones and the Internet, has suddenly risen in price to 100 000 roubles (i.e. rose 12.5 times relative to start) for which it was sold. Much cheaper, but also much higher than the starting 8 thousand rubles left in the same hands on the phone and the second etching Kruglikova — sheet "the Admiralty. Leningrad" in 1934 (lot 365).

Congratulations to the "Antiquarium" with a decent beginning full-time season of 2017 and wish them new auction records at the new location. As it became known, since March, 2017, the auction house is working on a new street Garden-Кудринская, house 25, 2-м floor of the "Antique center".

Maria Kuznetsova, AI