The auction "KABINET" on March 30. A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   04 апреля 2017

Sold by 56.6 % money: revenue of RUB 1.2 million most lots bought on the Internet

Thursday, March 30 auction house "KABINET" held auction "Antiquarian books, autographs, photographs, postcards and posters". It presents over 450 lots at very affordable prices (almost all the lots was estimated in the range of 10-15 thousand rubles). As a result, two and a half hours the dynamic of auctioneer Alexander had sold 158 lots from 457 (about 35 %) for a total of 1.24 million RUB, representing 56.6% of the average total rating directory. We should not be surprised that 125 of 158 lots sold (79 %) were implemented via the Internet: online players for almost the entire auction was about three dozen, while the hall was attended by no more than ten people, including employees of the auction house. Apparently, such is the nature of such work auctions: view in the room was not much, and need a lot in the Internet you can buy. Or by telephone: to telephone the players left 21 lot (13 %). Finally, absentee rates have played only 8 times, and collectors in the hall, accustomed to shop in person, got 4 lots.

editions of the classics of Russian literature, as always, in demand. One of the first was sold three volumes of the first posthumous edition of the collected works of A. S. Pushkin (St. Petersburg, 1838). Volumes 2, 6 and 7 were offered as separate lots, and each of them took from 20 to 26 thousand rubles. And a collection of poems of the poet Mikhail Dmitriev (1796-1866) was sold within estimates for 40 thousand. Poem N. Gogol's "Dead souls" (published in 1901) in a case of multiple online-участников reached a hammer price of 32 thousand rubles (estimate 15-16 thousand rubles). The poem of I. S. Turgenev "the Landlord", published in 1922 with illustrations by Vladimir Konashevich, was purchased online-игроком over 20 thousand. the same price was given for the Paris edition of the 1927 story "sunstroke" by Ivan Bunin (estimate 15-16 thousand.).

On the centenary celebration of the revolutionary events of 1917 recalled the rare collection of postcards dedicated to the abdication of Nicholas II (lots 110-112). For each of the postcards of 1917 (one of them — photo greeting with the use of photo montage) the competition between the participants, the Internet was serious: estimated at 1,8–2 thousand rubles, they were sold for 22, 22 and 28 thousand, respectively.

an Interesting collection of 16 photo greeting cards, 1931, from the magazine "USSR in construction" was sold out in exactly half. Particular attention is paid by collectors for rare cards with buildings in the constructivist style — from the first house-коммуны on Shabolovka (care twice and off for 2.8 thousand rubles) to the building of the crematorium in the territory of the Donskoy monastery (care for 2.6 thousand rubles). A subscription to the magazine "USSR in construction" in 1937, which is a constructivist brochure with attached 3 cards-абонементами in English, French and German, left 34 times more expensive start (estimate: 1-1,2 thousand rubles, the price of 34 thousand rubles).

Purchased was at the start, for 8 thousand roubles apiece all editions of the magazine "the white sea-Балтийский plant"(No. 2-8), published in the mid 1930-х years in the town of Medvezhyegorsk (until 1938 was called Bear mountain), in Karelia.

One of the most intense auction dispute has happened over the picturesque catalogue of the exhibition of 1923, which was attended by such Russian avant-garde artists like Drevin, Konchalovsky, Lentulov, Mashkov, Osmerkin, Udaltsova, Falk, etc. the eight-page catalogue was estimated to be only 500-600 rubles, but the result of the struggle of telephone customers and online-участника reached a hammer price of 34 thousand RUB History repeated itself when the auction catalogue of the exhibition "Paintings and drawings by artists of the first third of the XX century" (Novosibirsk, 1967): when you start from 500 rubles in the dispute several telephone and online-игроков the price has reached 34 thousand RUB Won the catalogue online-участник.

Online-участники were fans of not only art but also of football: from 15 to 32 thousand RUB traded them for the brochure "international football match. Farewell game of Lev Yashin" with the autograph of the famous goalkeeper.

has Found a buyer and one of the top-лотов auction, on the cover of the electronic catalog, — selection of almost all editions of the weekly literary-художественного journal "Chimes" (№ 1, 3-31, 33, 36, 42-43). The magazine was published in Riga from 1925 to 1929. Employees (including M. Dobuzhinsky, S. Vinogradov, and N. Bogdanov-Бельский) sought to revive the traditions of pre-revolutionary illustrated magazine. The lot was bought online-участником for 80 thousand rubles (estimate 75-80 thousand rubles).

Finally, to 46 thousand rubles, at the start of 8 thousand rubles, was sold to a third book of poems by the Soviet poet Vladimir lugovskogo "the sorrows of my friends" (lot 445):-участник again lost a lot to claim on it the phone player.

the Next auction "Russian enamel" held on the Day of cosmonautics 12 April, and the second of the two sessions of the auction will be dedicated to rare collector's items on the subject of aviation and cosmonautics.

by Maria Onuchina, AI