Auction house "KABINET" on the 1st of July. A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   19 июля 2017

31-е head to auction "Antiquarium" became one of the most interesting antique and themed auctions this season

the Latitude presented to the public range can be assessed even on the cover of the catalogue entitled "Rare and valuable books. Literature and art of the Bronze age. Painting, drawing, photography".

Auction selection, which attracted more than 400 lots, pleasing to glance the names of cherished and collector of paintings and (especially theatrical) charts, and books: lifetime editions of Alexander Pushkin to Daniil Kharms, theatrical sketches A. N. Benoit, graphics Voloshin, M. Dobuzhinsky, A. Laktionova, V. Popkov, a large collection of works by artists-шестидесятников and other interesting items.

particularly noteworthy are three thematic strings directory under the General heading of "Bronze age": "age of Bronze. Literature", "the Bronze age. Poets and artists", "the Bronze age. Fine arts", which amounted to more than 40% of the catalogue (lot 181). On the idea of auction house specialists, the concept of "Bronze age" (the era of 1950-80-х years) entered by the poets Vladimir Ohapkina and Slava len, — was to find these three directory partitions its material component, to demonstrate the inextricable link between non-conformist fine art and literature. That, as it seems, the organizers of the auction was quite successful.

For drawing all the 405 lots catalog took a total of about three hours, during which the new owners have acquired more than 60 % — 256 lots. Total revenues exceeded 10 million rubles — a little less than 80% of the average total estimate of all lots. Good result, especially for July in Moscow.

has Not lost its relevance and one more feature of the auction "three centuries" — consistently high activity (desired) audience: at this time, nearly three dozen were present jointly acquired 98 lots, only slightly behind the Internet-игрокам, an asset which can record 104 victories. Absentee bids were winning 39 times, and 15 lots left in new hands on the phone.

the Tone of trading asked the draw the third lot of the catalogue – the eight-volume "Russian chronicle according to Nikonov list", published under "the supervision of the Imperial Academy of Sciences" from 1767 to 1792. With 300 thousand rubles, the launch edition is gone into new hands, on the Internet, exactly twice as expensive — for 600 thousand roubles became the most expensive of the 18 lots sold in the section "Rare books" (lots 1-32), open an auction. For lovers of statistics will note that in total 18 lots sold brought the organizers of the auction a little less than 1.5 million rubles — 78 % of the mean estimate lots of strings and one of the highest scores in the "bronzovoi" part of the catalog.

In the section "Engraving. Painting. Drawings XIX–XXI centuries" (lots 33-78) new owners have acquired 24 of 45 lots. Paintings and drawings sold in the range of from 5 to 90 thousand rubles per lot, and total revenue amounted to slightly more than 600 thousand rubles. The most expensive lot of the Thong was watercolor sixties Anatoly slepysheva "Procession. The river" (lot 77) inherited by the new owner for 90 thousand rubles to 60 thousand rubles, start.

Next string — "Russian theatre sketch" (lots 79-116) — were perceived by the public with great enthusiasm: with a hammer then took more than 75 % of the lots, totaling more than 1.2 million rubles. The greatest success among the theatre schedules expected enjoyed a collection of 10 sketches of theatrical costumes and scenery of the hands of Alexander Nikolayevich Benois (lots 79-88). Almost every leaf (with the exception of lot 82 — of costume design for the Opera "Sadko" by N.. Roman-Корсакова at La Scala in 1937, the remaining unsold) was fierce competition, and sold a total of 9 drawings Benoit brought more than 2/3 of the revenues of the string —841 thousand rubles. The most expensive of the theatrical works of Benoit was lot 88 — watercolor sketch scenery for the Opera "La Boheme" by Puccini. Puccini inherited a new owner for 190 thousand rubles.

following the selection of lots entitled "St. Petersburg collection" (lots 117-159) also contained a lot of interesting. Sold gouache Dobuzhinsky (lots 118 and 119, departed to start at 250 and 100 thousand rubles respectively), watercolor Voloshin (lot 126 — sold at a start of 150 thousand rubles) figure Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov (lot 125 — 60 thousand rubles), but the most attention of bidders is undoubtedly more attracted to used books. So, record the result string (as well as the entire auction) was the price of lot 132 — autograph of one of the most famous poems of Joseph Brodsky's Leningrad period "being Able to dissociate itself from the people...", written by the author in 1966. Bidding for the manuscript, tentatively estimated at 200 to 400 thousand rubles, started with 260 thousand rubles — amounts, which stopped the participants of correspondence online-дуэли, and lasted between several players in the hall and the Internet to the winning bid from the audience of 850 thousand rubles. In all, 32 of the 42 lots sold Thong has brought to organizers more than 20 % of the proceeds of the day — almost 2.14 million rubles.

the Following three sections of the directory, despite the different thematic focus — literature, the poets and artists and fine arts, represented one epoch, namely the "Bronze age" of Russian art (replaced, according to the authors of this definition, the age of Silver). The topics of these thongs consisted of many interesting and rare items from the archives of the poets of Fame, Lena and Tatyana Shcherbina, the publications and documents related to the activities of transporantov and Mitkov, paintings and drawings from the collection of Henry Sapgir and many others.

Despite the fact that the directory the thongs were separated, we give General statistics on three parts of the "Bronze age". So, of the lot 181 collection (lots 160-341) with hammer away 60 % — 109 lots totaling more than 3.3 million or 67,8 % of the average estimate 181 lots.

the Most expensive of the lots of the "Bronze age" began gouache Viktor Pivovarov, 1998 from the series "Dedication" (lot 309). Previously estimated by expertsthe auction house in 70-100 thousand rubles, pattern, starting with 80 thousand rubles in absentia rate, attracted the attention of the party in the hall and several Internet-игроков. The drawing of this lot was one of the most venturesome and exciting battles of the day: contenders for the possession pattern is not inferior to each other a few dozen full steps, which work Pivovarova has risen 3.5 times and got a new owner in the 280 thousand rubles.

In second place ranking in the price of lots of the "Bronze age" was a representative of the section "Literature" — second copy of the book V. N. Nekrasov "the Last hero: Poems, lyrics, jokes, stories, drawings," published in Moscow publishing house V. Hoppe with a circulation of 12 copies (lot 199), signed by the publisher V. B. Hoppe Dulkin and two original portraits of Nekrasov work B. Kocheyshvili. With 30 thousand rubles absentee start lot was played between two participants in the room, stopping on the hammer price 170 thousand rubles.

the third is the record sales section "Poets and painters" — 10 of 15 copies of a series of 16 lithographs for the book of poems by T. Bukovskaya "Gikomero" the works of artist Valery Mishin (lot 277). Starting from 100 thousand rubles absentee bids, the lot was purchased by the participant on the Internet for 110 thousand rubles.

Following the "Bronze age" string "Tamizdat" of the 27 lots were sold at 60 %. And remember one of the most interesting draws of the auction. Thus, the record growth rates relative to the start showed a lot 354 — selection of the two Paris photos by Vladimir Nabokov 1960-х years: starting from 7 thousand rubles, several participants in the Internet, and the phone room raised the price of the photos more than 7 (!) time. A lot went into the hall for 50 thousand rubles.

the Final auction section "photographs and Postcards" sold by 82 % and brought to the organizers about 1.1 million rubles. Two times in the course of trading rose from several filokartisty auction lots — collection of seven postcards with the interior of the Soviet pavilion at the exhibition print "Press" in Cologne in 1928 (lot 373), the main artist-оформителем pavilion then was El Lissitzky. Starting from 100 thousand rubles, several participants in the Internet has raised its price to 220 thousand rubles, for which he had gone into new hands. The most expensive lots were two string works by contemporary artist Vlad King, executed in mixed media using photography, collage and mirrors (lots 404 and 405, each estimate: 100-120 thousand rubles). Both lots sold to the Internet for 240 and 260 thousand, respectively, and set a record for sales of the artist at a public auction.

Congratulations auction house "Antiquarium" a worthy end of the spring-летнего full-time auction season and we will wait for the next one, I hope, no less interesting auction this fall.

Deltiologists fans online-торгов while unable to participate in procatechesis online-аукционе "Empire" "Two capitals". The auction is already open, closing scheduled for 18 hours of the future Tuesday, July 25.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI