Contemporary art in the "literary Fund" September 15. The fastest trades in the history of the auction house
ARTinvestment.RU   27 сентября 2017

In 24 minutes the hammer went 13 lots. Total revenue amounted to almost 1.2 million rubles

September 15, the auction house "Russian enamel" for the fourth time held auctions of contemporary art.

Among exactly one hundred lots in catalog "Contemporary art: painting, drawing, photography, objects, sculpture" was of works and not yet known to the market of young artists, working in different fields of contemporary art and recognized authors: K. Zvezdochetov, I. Makarevich, S. Shutov, S. Agroskin, and others.

Total number of participants in real-time and observers can be assessed approximately thirty people. Of these, six arrived in the auction room, while others prefer personal presence within the walls of the "literary Fund" the comfort of their own homes and joined the ranks of Internet-участников. And I was right! The last auction proved to be the fastest in the entire history of observations: to provide the public with all 100 of the lots catalog, perfect auctioneer, "the Cabinet" the Helen mountain took less than half an hour, which went under the hammer for 13% of catalogue collections for a total amount of 1 million 191 thousand rubles.

Three most expensive lot of the evening had found new owners on the Internet: "Portrait of Pinocchio in the costume of the Renaissance" Igor Makarevich (lot 27), the track "the Fall" Alexander Djikia (lot 5) and "Peas 3" by Sergei Shutov was sold at the start, non-negotiable, 300, 150, and 140 thousand, respectively.

Record the purchase of virtual participants was lot 83 — big oil "Bridge" from the "Poor visibility" brush Seeds Agroskin, also departed at a starting price of 120 thousand rubles.

the Hall this time has attracted just one lot — oil on masonite "the Three graces" Michael Bagladesh (lot 85), in which one of the bidders agreed to give the starting 85 thousand rubles.

Among the rest sold — work Golubev, G. Gavrilenkov, S. Mironenko, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, E. Zaika, V. Ganina, E. Sysoeva, the variance between the Internet, telephone and absentee participants at the starting price in the range 19 to 85 thousand rubles.

it is Commendable that, despite the General instability in the art market, particularly contemporary art, the auction house "Russian enamel" continues to adhere to a strictly defined range of artists, standing on the very edge of relevance and meets the high demands of the authors of the collection catalogue. I hope that over time, these efforts will assess and the public. Meantime, obviously, work in this direction remains very large. It will be interesting to observe the possible development of sales of the "literary Fund" in the segment of contemporary art. With impatience we will wait, what else from the modern will offer us a "Cabinet" next time.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI