Spring auction "Sovkome". The results of the auctions of Russian art
ARTinvestment.RU   31 марта 2017

Yesterday, March 30, in Moscow there took place one of the main (and expected) event of the antique market. And it's not about another Antique salon — auction held one of the last auctions of the "old school" — "Scoop"

Three-quarters of the catalog represented the scenic quality of the works of the masters of Russian realistic art. Among the top authors-лотов it was nice to see a rare in recent times in the domestic market and on the-настоящему Museum names like Franz Rubo, Julius Klever, Alexander Gerasimov, Georgy Savitsky, Evsei Moiseenko and many others.

and it is Natural that the final figures past of trading is to acknowledge the definition of yesterday's auction as the events of the season.

in just Over an hour to hammer away 47 of 98 exhibited lots (5 lots were sold prior to the auction). The total amount sold in the hall amounted to more than 620 thousand dollars, or about 35 million roubles at the current exchange rate (of which half @320 mdas thousand dollars — brought to the Treasury of the organizers selling the three most expensive lots). While this is the impressive result for the auction of fine art this year.

Of course, by the way, it is necessary to tell separately. The directory was compiled and the price of the lots was approved a few months before the auction and at a very different rate. So the starting prices on some items were increased, which could not affect the sales results. Of 18 lots with a high start (almost 20% of all lots) new owners found only one — wonderful genre works of Tkachev brothers "Zimka" (lot 93), gone to the gym to start in 23 thousand dollars, if you know that you start at 20 thousand dollars.

Hall pleasing to the eye a rare quantity of people and activity. From more than four dozen people gathered in "Sovkome" to the beginning of the auction active bidding took half a dozen. In total, buyers in the room got 33 lots — more than 70 % of the total sold. Telephone participants spent 8 lots and 6 were sold at the absentee rates.

the Highest score of the evening showed a large (110 × 93 cm) the battle-painting "Eastern troops in the campaign" painted by Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud (lot 9) — thing of the Museum, written in a Mature, "Munich" period of the artist. Two participants in the room began to haggle with the launch of 150 thousand dollars, the work was awarded to the winner for 170 thousand dollars (more than 9,5 million roubles).

surprisingly, the second highest hammer price of the auction was also achieved as a result of very hard bargaining. For still life "Dahlia" in 1947 work George Savitsky (lot 41) from the start to 80 thousand dollars fought several participants in the hall. In the end, the impressive size (80 × 101 cm) flower setting with impeccable provenance (the work comes from the collection of the artist's family) went to new hands for 100 thousand dollars (5.5 million rubles).

a Variety of landscapes, as usual, accounted for about half of the entire auction collection (scenery, as we know, generally one of the most popular genres), but the most expensive of them are located only on the third place among the highest scores of the day. They becameacademic atmospheric "Winter landscape with the road" (lot 7) work Emilia Clover, niece of the founder of the famous artistic dynasty Julius Klever-старшего. Work was sold into the hall to start at 50 thousand dollars (about 2.8 million).

note that the landscape of the Julius Klever-старшего "Sunset on the marshes" left in the same hands just a little bit cheaper for 40 thousand dollars.

however the psychologically significant boundary of 17.8 thousand dollars (one million rubles) during the bidding crossed the 8 lots. All — painting.

the Most expensive graphic work yesterday was pastel Vasily Sitnikov "Nine measurements" (lot 99), sold for 10 thousand dollars, start by absentee rate.

For comparison, the most expensive purchase by phone has become a small landscape "banks of the Seine" of Nicholas Krichevsky (lot 73), with four thousand dollars of start by absentee rate gone phone player, perekopivka rates of two participants in the hall, over 6 thousand dollars.

And finally, about innovation "Sovkoma" for the first time in his catalog, the organizers posted a string of porcelain figurines of the seven lots (lots 10-16). We can say that the experiment was a success: in new hands took 5 of the 7 lots, some significantly higher starts. So, the most expensive of porcelain figurines — biscuit figure of "the Jew with umbrella", produced by the Gardner factory in 1870-80-х years — was played between a phone buyer and multiple participants in the room. In the end, the statuette went to the winner in hall 4 for 100 dollars with 2 million dollars of start.

Congratulations auction house with a well-deserved high score and waiting for the next one already autumn auction, scheduled for the end of October 2017.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI