Auction "Russian enamel" on may 12. A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   18 мая 2017

Sold by 36% by lots and 45% for the money. Total revenues amounted to about 1.3 million rubles.

may 12 Auction "Antiquarian books, photographs, postcards and posters" was as it is now called, "dealer", and the smart dealers on Friday evening are used to buying on the Internet. In the end, there had three customers, online — thirty-three (or a little less does not matter). It is obvious that the majority of the lots (about a hundred) were purchased via the Internet. A few regular customers used to bet on the phone, they accounted yet twenty lots — thirty. The share of part-time and full-time rates in this case are very minor. In total, the two sessions were sold 148 of 413 lots (approximately 36 %) to 1.33 million RUB (44,6% of the average total estimate). The first session was somewhat more successful than the second: in the first session of the sold lots, 82 of 220 (37 %) almost 1 mln (52% of the estimate).

Among the top-лотов first session — writer Nikolai Danilevsky, "the Caucasus and its mountain residents, in their current position" (Moscow: University typ., 1846): lot 5 went in for 95 thousand rubles (estimate 75-80 thousand rubles). Soon after lady a novel by English writer Rhoda Broughton, presumably, from the collection of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (as indicated by the bookplate embossed in gold on the spine) increased in price from 15 to 55 thousand rubles (lot 13).

Challenged the players in the room, online and by phone for "Jubilee collection of the Mikhailovsky Voronezh Cadet corps. 1845-1895", issued in Voronezh in 1898 (lot 22): telephone buyer was the most persistent and purchased the lot for 55 thousand rubles without regard to fee (estimated 9-10 thousand rubles).

Apart from the usual books, postcards and posters is lot 218 — is a reproduction of a painting by Kazimir Malevich "Female torso" (1928-1929). For high-quality reproduction Italian production started 2000-х from a limited (100 copies) edition suddenly started to argue a participant in the room and the player on the Internet. Malevich with 12 thousand rubles rose to 44 thousand rubles, and went to the Internet.

the Most expensive lot of the auction on may 12 was lot 80-й, consisting of photo album companies "Gallipoli" (one of the first emigrant societies formed soon after the evacuation of the Volunteer Army from the Crimea to Constantinople) and the medal "For excellent riding". It is possible that b LSI interest for locking in the auction against parties represented, not a photo album. The starting rating for whole set of 10 thousand RUB seemed applicants a mere trifle, and they easily exceeded this estimate by 15 times! For 150 thousand rbl. the lot was bought by one of the online-игроков.

It was the brightest of the auction bout of the evening. In General lots for the most part quietly dispersed collections of participants, at prices not much higher than the estimate. A good working auction with the respective result. But for the sensationalism and intrigue — welcome to auction "Russian enamel" on may 18, where we are waiting for letter Boris Pasternak, a copy of the nearly completely burned by the censorship Committee of the copies of the book "Amaterski" by Ivan Wielkopolska and other antiquarian rarities.

by Maria Onuchina, AI