Auction "Russian enamel" on August 3. A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   10 августа 2017

Catalogue of paintings, drawings and objects of decorative-прикладного art sold out to third. Total revenue amounted to almost 4 million rubles

August 3, in the "literary Fund" was selling paintings, graphics, icons and decorative-прикладное art. Started as a pure book auction house "Antiquarium" in recent years has been actively expanding its activities — in particular, it has steadily and regularly (though not often) offers a very decent collection of art and applied art.

auction Catalogue August 3, despite the iconic names of the artists of the first row, generously scattered through its pages (enough to call Yuon, Makovsky, Bogaevsky, Gudiashvili, etc.), became one of the most democratic in the level of starting prices among the "scenic" collections of this season: about 20 % of the lots started in the range from 1 to 10 thousand rubles, and starts within the borders of 50 thousand roubles it was possible to compete in more than 70 % of the lots. But as practice shows, in contrast to the booksellers, which neither summer nor heat nor traffic jams can't stop the buyers of art are more conservative in selecting sites and in the summer for the most part prefer to relax from the auction. Perhaps this partly explains the results, though stable, but quality is still not comparable with sales figures in the second-hand segment.

so, in less than two hours of the auction time, the hammer went exactly 100 of the 299 lots totaling 3.8 million rubles, or 21.3% of the mean estimate of the directory. 40 lots went to the Internet, where in real time in the auction was attended by over 20 players, 7 lots were purchased by the efforts of a dozen people present in the room personally, 18 lots won the phone, and 35 times out of 49 proved to be the winning absentee bid.

the Greatest success of buyers used, surprisingly, not painting, and graphics. Five of the ten highest results have shown the sale of watercolors and drawings in pencil and charcoal. In addition to graphics, in the top ten most high care was a place of work, executed in mixed media, icon, silver snuff box and two lots of painting.

Most expensive purchase of the evening was the collage to Sergei Parajanov "images of Women" from the collection of each artist Yuri Barabadze (lot 279). Over 260 thousand rubles picture in the decorated frame the author's party got on the phone, killing the starting rate of the Internet.

Record Internet shopping, however, from the phone, behind only by a little. Another female image — drawing pencil and charcoal on paper "Model in the chair" the hands of Sergei Chekhonin gone into new hands for a starting price of 240 thousand rubles.

the Third among the highest numbers of care the organizers of the auction are obliged to absentee players. Moreover, the "bronze" in our virtual top-три divided two lots. Watercolor genre scene "Bread and salt" Wilhelm Baer (lot 58), and three small, picturesque landscape sketch from the "Middle band" Alexey Kravchenko (lot 93) was sold without haggling, start,for 150 thousand rubles per lot.

the Most expensive purchase of the hall was lot 42 — watercolor portrait of St. George cross 1840-50-х years, the work of an unknown artist. With 42 thousand rubles, the start of the work was played between a couple of participants in the room and Internet. The winner of the bout a portrait of a cost of 90 thousand rubles.

deserve special mention backupassist very successful, a small collection of works by artists-шестидесятников. Judge for yourself: draw string and original graphics by Ernst Neizvestny (lots 222-227) differed by almost 100% 5 out of 6 lots collection found new owners, among correspondence and online-участников and players in the hall. Total revenues Thong amounted to 134 thousand rubles, and the most expensive of the drawings Unknown — "Hand" felt-tip pen on paper (lot 222) —, while the estimate of 10-11 thousand rubles was sold for 75 thousand rubles.

the new owners had left both the picture Eugene Chubarova (lots 242 and 243) and the same Vladimir Yakovlev (lots 277 and 278). Drawings by Anatoly Zverev finished trading slightly worse, but much more expensive: two sold (lots 208 and 209) of five of his drawings (lots 206-210) yielded a total of 115 thousand rubles.

Price list of decorative segment-прикладного art topped table snuff box in the Russian style, created by masters of the Moscow firm I. Khlebnikov in the years 1908-1917 (lot 89). Elegant silver ware, decorated with colored enamels on filigree and gilding, found a new owner among the telephone participants: lot was sold at a starting price of 120 thousand rubles.

and Finally tell you about the most unusual, perhaps, for the "literary Fund" category items. 7 lots was the string of icons and Church items: it included the works of the Moscow craftsmen of the late eighteenth — beginning of the XX century at the price from 20 to 60 thousand rubles. Despite the rather start is available, sold only two lots. But from the market. So, the image of "St. Sergius of Radonezh the Wonderworker" 1900-х years to fight multiple online-игроков and participants in the hall went up twice and got the winner in the Internet for 80 thousand rubles from the start to 40 thousand.

that didn't make it, we have said, however, let's note the obvious positive outcome of the auction. Yes, the summer factor played a role. It is even possible that not all collectors are accustomed to buy PDI and icons in other auction houses, drew attention to the collection "literary Fund". However, the growing popularity of the "literary Fund" and in these, quite new directions are obvious: traded (not very many and not in the highest amounts) and for fine art, and decorative-прикладное, and icons. Whether to continue development, it will be clear already in the autumn, when the major players and buyers will return to the capital after summer vacations.

the Next auction The "literary Fund" of fine and decorative-прикладным art is planned for the beginning of October 2017. The results we will, of course, let.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI