Painting, graphics and decorative-прикладного arts in the "Empire" on 7 October. The results of the auction
ARTinvestment.RU   23 октября 2017

Directory of three hundred and fifty lots sold, for a third and collected in the amount of slightly less than 7.5 million rubles

the auction house "Russian enamel" long and confidently crossed the bounds of specialized rare book auction and entered the ranks of the so-called "homes-универсалов", offering its clients a thematic catalogue and selection in different areas and gathering collectibles. And these directories, with the exception of some areas in which the quality of the items is not too conforms to the demand of the public not inferior to the level of "profile" lithodesmium bibliophilic collections.

is No exception to this General rule and the auction catalog October 7 —шестого auction in the segment of fine art for "Empire" this year.

At this time, the catalogue of 350 lots, despite the word "painting", given at the beginning of the title, consisted mainly of graphs: 209 lots of watercolors, gouaches, drawings in pencil, charcoal and ink to 80 paintings. The rest of the directory made up of works executed in mixed media, sculpture, icons, glass, and porcelain and other decorative-прикладного art.

Despite the impressive volume of the catalog, past auction has become one of the fastest on my mind: drawing all 350 lots took only an hour and a half. During this time, about twenty people in the room and about the same Internet-участников, supported by telephone and correspondence players, have jointly bought 107 (30,57 %) of the 350 lots. The total value of sold made up 7.46 million RUB — 18.8 per cent of the average total estimate.

This low result in terms of money (the average estimate of all lots of the catalogue at this time amounted to slightly less than 40 million RUB) is associated with the fact that none of the lot, which started with a million (and above) rubles, found a buyer. But the percentage of lots that overstepped the mark of 100 thousand rubles, accounted for nearly 20% of the total sold — 21 of 107 lots.

Unexpectedly, but the fact is that most lots won correspondence rate. Winning turned out to be 3/4 of all absentee bids: 33 out of 46. The participants in the room got a 31 lot 25 — went online and purchased 18 lots on the phone.

best (and it can be called a pleasant surprise), this time painting sold. In the new hands got 25 of 80 scenic lots totaling 2,028 million rubles. — just over 81 thousand rubles for each lot in the middle – very good, by the way, the result is!

Top-три picturesque lots was recognizable winter landscape "Sunset" Julius Klever-старшего and workshop (lot 120), which started with 450 thousand rubles and over 550 thousand RUB past party in the hall, killing the bet online-игрока, bright genre composition by Leon Zack "Three women" (lot 213), sold at a start of 280 thousand rubles to the buyer on the phone and etude "Summer landscape" painted by Sergei Gerasimov (lot 192), for 170 thousand rubles (start of 120 thousand rbl.) inherited absentee bidder, killing several bets from the audience.

Of the 209 lots of graphics (and a separate note: we are talking exclusively about the original graph) new owners have acquired 59 — is 28.8 %. A little less painting. But the money earned twice as much graphics — more than 4.4 million rubles.

the Most expensivegraphic work is a colorful gouache Nikolai Remizov "the Driver" (lot 128), sold at a starting absentee rate for 450 thousand rubles.

On the second place was created in 1887 ink on paper "portrait" hands of Vasily Polenov, who showed one of the most important Rostov hammer price relative start. Starting from 180 thousand RUB absentee start in the fight for the lot was entered by one of the Internet-игроков, party in the hall and a telephone. Struggled for quite a long time — a few dozen steps, as long as the price has not increased in almost two times — to 320 thousand rubles. The picture went to a buyer by telephone.

But third place, with a hammer price of 300 thousand. exactly divided three lots.

the First of the specified results achieved lot 26: starting from 150 thousand rubles by correspondence rate, the struggle between the two phones two times exactly increased price, the picture of mid-nineteenth-century "Street scene" hand Vasily Timm.

Then, almost an hour later (and with a much smaller increase relative to start) for the same money went into the Internet lot 314 — drawn in graphite and colored pencils "Friends" Lado Gudiashvili.

the Third "transattack" — pastel "Evening tram" Victor Bragin — and went to start. The lucky winner of this striking work was one of the participants on the phone.

For fans of statistics we note that the total amount of all the lots sold OUT-сегмента brought to the Treasury auctions 7,046 million roubles, or 94.4% of the total revenue of the day.

Of the 37 lots, reserved by the compilers of the directory on decorative-прикладного art and icons, the new owners have acquired exactly half — 18 lots for a total amount of 418 thousand.

More than half of this amount — 212 thousand RUB — collected 7 of the 16 sold lots of icons, but the most expensive lot, not related to the fine arts, was lot 135 — porcelain layer "RSFSR", painted in 1922, Sergei Chekhonin and served, most likely, sample-оригиналом for artists-исполнителей in the scenic shop of the State porcelain factory. With 50 thousand RUB. start by absentee rate, the lot was sold to the buyer on the phone for 75 thousand.

the Last auction undoubtedly can be beneficial to the auction house. "Grow up" it "for the money", how to change (and will change) the ratio of painting and drawing and, more broadly, — fine and decorative-прикладного art in the composition of the catalogue, will see very soon: the next "scenic" auction "Russian enamel" held on 16 November.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI