The first auction "the Auction house Egorov". A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   29 июня 2017

The debut auction brought most of the new Moscow auction houses more than 9 million rubles

June this year came to be extremely rich in the auction of Russian art: in addition to the collections of the leaders of the global auction market, in the beginning of the month, spent the traditional "Russian week", the paintings and graphics of Russian artists can be found in more than 200 catalogs of auction houses of Europe and America.

the First month of summer vacation was not embarrassed and Moscow auctioneers in Moscow in June, it's been about a dozen auctions of fine art, and on the 20th opened its doors to the public another auction house — "auction house Egorov".

the First catalog of a new home was also on art and is accordingly called "Paintings and drawings". To the public presented to 172 lots — works by Russian composers created in the period from 1840-х years to 2017, for a starting price of 3.5 thousand to 3.3 million. It's really art for every taste and wallet!

in Addition to the usual first "Museum" of names of Russian authors of the XX century, like E. Lanceray, K. Gorbatov, S. Gerasimov and others, in a catalogue of the collection was to be found, and somewhat unusual for Moscow auction of the authors. For example, special attention deserves the string of five (2016-2017) work known to our contemporary Andriaka.

the Auction will be remembered not only directory but also rare in these times event — sold out in the auction room. To personally watch the debut trading of a new member of the Metropolitan art-рынка come well-known dealers, collectors and representatives of other homes — a significant indication that "house of Egorov" is perceived as a serious player of the Moscow auction in the world. In total, forty people gathered in the hall, and the auction began.

For an hour with a small net auction time, with flawless execution of the auction the auctioneer Tatiana Pronicheva, went under the hammer for almost 45 % of the lots catalog — 76 of 170. Total revenue came to just under 9.1 million, or 30.2 % of the mean estimate of the directory. The most active buyers were made by the participants on the phones, taking 40.7 per cent of all purchased —-31 lot, 18 times out of 27 proved to be the winning absentee bids, 15 lots bought online and 12 — went to the participants in the room.

Despite the fact that the greatest success with the audience enjoyed lots of midrange, a hammer price of more than 100 thousand rubles made up from 11 works, and ten of the most expensive of them together brought the organizers of 78.5 % of total revenue — almost 7,2 million roubles, that is on average more than 700 thousand rubles for the lot.

the Maximum hammer price of the auction — 3.3 million was achieved in the early trading, when playing 3-го lot of the auction. It is this amount paid for one of the Internet-участников for the work "Horse and dog" one of the most famous artists-анималистов the mid-nineteenth century Alexander p. Schwab.

in the second place in the list of the mostexpensive works of the evening were two paintings: the academic "Mountain landscape" by the German painter Paul von Frenkel (lot 9) and scenic sketch "To Bork" by Vasily Polenov (lot 20). Both of the landscape found their new owners among online-игроков and was sold for a starting price of 900 thousand rubles each.

But it's all painting. The most expensive graphic works of the last bid (and the third in our virtual top-три) was watercolor "Sailboat" founded in 1897 by Lev Lagorio (lot 8): also non-negotiable at a starting rate of 420 thousand rubles, the work went to the Internet.

in General, for a starting price broke the absolute majority of lots sold — 75 %. It is possible, of course, affected the novelty factor, perhaps, many decided to try to participate, but not to bargain seriously, but what-либо trades were recorded only in the drawing, 21 of the 76 lots sold.

the Greatest increase in prices in the course of trade, showed lot 119 — post-war landscape of Dmitry Nalbandian "academic dacha". The painting was raffled among several players in the Internet and with the launch of 48 thousand rubles went into new hands 4.5 times more expensive — for 220 thousand rubles.

the Attentive reader certainly noticed that all these expensive things, bargaining with or without left online-игрокам. Telephone, hall and absentee bidder fought and bought this time in a slightly different "weight categories". So, the most expensive purchase of the hall were two species work of the teacher of the school Andriaka, the contemporary artist Alexei Kravchenko "In the present: the Crimean bridge and the present: Ipatyevsky monastery" (lots 166 and 167). Both works left start in one hand 80 thousand rubles each.

a Record winning bid phone become 100 thousand rubles, which paid one of the members for the work of Kondrat Maksimova "still life with field flowers" (lot 158). The greatest among the winning absentee bids of steel 420 thousand rubles for that in the new hands left lot 111 — wonderful portrait of a woman "Valya. At the Academic dacha named after I. E. Repin" brush Vladimir Stozharova.

Well, congratulations auction house Egorov with a nice debut, and we are with you with the fact that the list of the Moscow auction houses replenished with new interesting and serious player.

the Next auction fine art pre-announced at the beginning of autumn this year, and hope that they will be no worse and even better than the first auction.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI