Millions Voloshin, other autographs and not only. Results second-hand auction "Cabinet" on February 25
ARTinvestment.RU   09 марта 2017

Sold 55.5% of the lots catalog, totaling 20.9 million rubles

on the last Saturday of February, in the midst of a long February weekend in the walls of the auction house "Russian enamel" was another antiquarian auction "Rare books, autographs, photographs and postcards", 45-е in the history of the auction house.

Despite the holidays, rainy weather and other circumstances, to seven p.m., on the assigned start of the auction, in the hall of the "Cabinet" there were about three dozen people, and nearly fifty stakeholders was watching the progress of bidding in real time via the Internet.

For two-and-a-half-hour auction time, went under the hammer 202 of 364 (55.5 percent) put up for auction. The total amount sold was more than 20.9 million rubles, or almost 77,5 % of the mean estimate of the directory — do not record the result for the "literary Fund", but one of the best for all the auction in Moscow for the last few months. More than half of the entire amount — 12.3 million RUB — auction earned on the sale of all seven lots, each of which went to new owners for a million rubles and above. For littondale tradition, most (74 lots) that evening I bought a-участники, 66 lots went into the hall, 35 — on the phone, and 27 of 64 again proved to be the winning absentee bid.

the Beginning of the auctions did not differ high activity of buyers: the top ten lots, where were collected the middle of the XVI edition of — beginning of the XIX century, in new hands left only one — "military regulations about the posts of generals-фельдмаршалов, and all the generals, and protchaya ranks..." 1737 (lot 6) purchased, with a little bargaining, for 65 thousand rubles. And yet the record hammer price has been achieved already in the drawing the first part of the catalog.

the highest price of the evening was the price of one of the top-лотов auction — books "biographies of the staff and Ober-офицеров, count Arakcheev Grenadier regiment laid down his life defending the Emperor and the Fatherland in the battles of 1812, 1813 and 1814" (1816) with the autograph of the count A. A. Arakcheev, presented to them in a private Georgian family estate in 1817 to the deputies of the Moscow coachmen (lot 14). Rare, not meant, in all likelihood, the for sale book released besides the limited edition (as it is known, all its publications Arakcheev was printed in very few copies and even public libraries did not send anything), came to the auction with a starting price of 100 thousand rubles, in the fight two telephone players has risen to 30 (!!!) times and gone into new hands of 3 million rubles.

This hammer price seemed right-таки provoke many potential buyers. The next big deal was made in a couple of lots, when over 800 thousand rubles, at the start, went to the gym illustrated edition of the fables of Ivan Krylov, issued by the printing house of A. Smirdin in 1834.

Following a lot-миллионником was a very rare edition of "60 etchings of Professor of IV. IV. Shishkin," in the complete set the publishing folder(lot 66), sold on the phone at a starting price of 2 million.

Very well, for 200 thousand rubles. to 50 thousand rbl. of the start, went to the gym, to the player, to break the resistance of the Internet and absentee bidder, the lot associated with the name of another outstanding figure of Russian art — instance of music "Songs for singing Rachmaninoff. An excerpt from Musset", with a dedicatory inscription by Sergei Rachmaninov performer of romances Xenia Darginskoy: "Sincerely thank Xenia Georgievna / for a great implementation of this romance / Rachmaninov / 20 Jan 1911 / Kyiv".

And several lots associated with well-known figures of Russian art, sold out with good price growth. In particular, with the launch of 25 thousand. retrospective album of works by Kandinsky "Kandinsky. 1901-1913" in German (lot 132) rose to 110 thousand rubles, which went to the buyer phone. Just a few minutes, the only published issue of the fourth volume "history of Russian art" by I. E. Grabar (lot 136), previously estimated at 20-22 thousand rubles, went on sale with a starting price of 50 thousand rubles by correspondence rate was sold for the same 110 thousand RUB from another phone player.

Next — more. With the launch of 950 thousand rubles. in the hall for 1.25 million rubles. went a rare edition of — the first (and printed) the book of poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky with the drawings of Basil and Leo Chekriguina Regina (Schechtel), released in an edition of 300 copies in Moscow lithography S. M. Muharsky in 1913.

four times higher than the start, for 2 million RUB. phone party, perekopivka rates and the Internet, and the hall, and part of the player, got early autographs of Maximilian Voloshin — manuscripts of the poems "February 19" and "thoughts unclear...", written in one day, June 25, 1898, 12 years before the publication of the first book Voloshin (lot 150).

Nearly 10 times higher than the start left in the same hands for 550 thousand rubles. and a handwritten letter from Maximilian Voloshin 27 October 1927 (lot 151), addressed to "Lina" —, Valentina Paid Vyazma, the author of books of memoirs about the poet. Other lots associated with the name Voloshin: a letter to Viazemsky sisters 1932 (lot 152), eleven letters of members of the family Voloshin, written Vyazemsky (lot 153) and three watercolor landscapes (items 154-156), also enjoyed continued success and was sold out to the hall and call for 30-280 thousand rubles., on average, 2-3 times higher than the start. In total seven sold "voloshinski" lots (lots 150-156) brought the organizers of the auction of more than 3.5 million rubles.

If the millions Voloshin was in some sense unexpected, imaginista the book of Sergei Yesenin "Triratna" (lot 183) went on sale with an estimate of 1-1,1 million rbl. the 1921 Edition with the author's autograph addressed to the bride of the poet Alexander Shiryaeva: "Margot S. Esenin 1921 may 25 Tashkent" on the title page, with 1.1 mln RUB. of the starting prices played betweenonly the participants in the room, one of which offered the winning bid of 1.5 million rubles.

the Following result million was recorded exactly 50 lots. In 1929, Boris Pasternak was sent to the editor, Alexander G. Gabrichevsky, who at the time lived in Koktebel Maximilian Voloshin, his first book of translations — "Secrets" of Goethe and the great letter asking where gabrichevskogo to write him "all that mark and think, not hiding". The book with numerous notes and corrections Pasternak and writing as a single lot (lot 233) was put up for auction with a starting price of 800 thousand rubles., but several participants in the hall and one of the Internet-игроков joint effort raised it by almost half. In the end, lot went to the hall for 1.55 million rubles.

Surprisingly, in the list of most popular names last bid company Voloshin, Mayakovsky and Yesenin, was Lilya Brik, and (probably influenced by the proximity of many revolutionary dates) Lenin. Photos, cartoons and documents associated with these two names, though not among the most expensive, but went with an active market and are often significantly higher starting price.

And the last major purchase of the auction was a one autograph — book "the River tavern" Ivan Bunin in publishing the cover of the works of M. Dobuzhinsky, 1945 edition with the author's corrections and a dedication to the actress Valentina Serova on the free list: "Valentina Vasilyevna cardio. IV. Bunin. 25.VII.46. Paris" (lot 270). The book is non-negotiable at a starting price of 1 million rubles. took one of the buyers in the room. With what it and congratulations.

In General, the "Cabinet" showed a familiar confident results and just reference the manner of organizing and conducting the auction. I hope that the next rare book auction, scheduled for March 16, will be at least as good.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI