The results of the auction on January 24 at the Auction house "Russian enamel»
ARTinvestment.RU   30 января 2018

The first auction of 2018 gathered a full room and in a light, positive mood was a good start to the new season sales

Signature auction "Russian enamel" number 92, devoted to rare books, manuscripts, autographs, photographs, posters and postcards, January 24, opened the series of trades has barely begun. At this time, bargaining is very indicative was held in the new hall, located in the building of the Auction house on the first floor. Host, welcomed all present and congratulated all with the beginning.

a Selection of 441 lots were represented by a single session, without a break, although logically divided into items must be not younger than the nineteenth century, under which was assigned to the first half of the trading, and of the XX century, who got second.

the Traditional predominance of the Internet-игроков this time somewhat weakened: despite the fact that the auction was watched by more than sixty people, the auction raised almost a full house, which is quite vigorously and joyfully reacted to everything that happened.

Of the 441 lots went under the hammer more than half — 246 (55.7 per cent), of which 47.6 per cent (more than 117) were purchased by participants from the Internet. The players on the phone ahead of the participants in the room with a small gap (24.4 per cent, compared with 19.1 %) and absentee rates was purchased 8.9 percent of the lots. It is worth noting that most purchases top-10 were committed dial-in participants. The total revenue amounted to 12.4 million rubles., that is 60.7 per cent of the average total estimate of the catalogue: a very decent result given the fact that the most expensive items and have not found new owners.

Top sales rightfully crowned the first edition of the third book of Alexander Pushkin "the fountain of Bakhchisarai" from the collection of Konstantin Nikolaevich Bestuzhev-Рюмина, which after a struggle with Internet and absentee bids were won by the party on the phone for 1 million rubles. if you start at 600 thousand.

After that, it should be noted personal copy of the book Joseph Brodsky's "In England", which was presented to Dmitry Tarasenkov. Bargaining for this edition, marked with the autographs, started with 600 thousand. and ended with the sale of over 750 thousand rubles to the player on the phone. This is the second cost item of the evening and the first among the publications of the twentieth century.

Third place overall is the four-volume edition by Alexander Benois "History of art of all times and peoples" category in the years 1912-1916. A wonderful publication, the implementation of which began in 250 thousand roubles was as a result sold for 500 thousand rubles.

Among the other lots, has attracted special attention of the public, was a book containing the collected Leo Tolstoy"Thoughts of wise people every day" 1905 bound in the Studio of Edward Ro. Accompanying commentary "Thoughts of the wise, bound for the elite," the publication became a subject of serious struggle, which began with the absentee bid, and as a result got the player on the phone for 200 thousand rubles (estimate 15-16 thousand rubles).

In thongs pictures, we note two lots. The autographed Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky in 1928 and was purchased in the hall for 390 thousand rubles (estimate: 200-220 thousand rubles), and is prohibited by the Office of the Empress photo Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, talking with a wounded officer in the hospital in Tsarskoe Selo, the party on the phone won 24 thousand rubles (estimate 17-18 thousand rubles).

Frankly delighted the participants with a lovely selection of lots with books of fairy tales. The most expensive it was the works of Hans Christian Andersen in 4 volumes 1894-1895, gone in for 170 thousand rubles (estimate 25-26 thousand rubles).

the Rest of the "fabulous" items with illustrations of Boris Zworykin (lot 236), Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (lots 138, 148, 174) and Ernest Ernestovich of Lissner (lots 146 and 147), although not shown the same spectacular growth rates relative to the estimate, but all together they represent a compilation that was sold at auction in the fullest part.

the Auction was quite long, but despite some fatigue and a gradual increase in the number of players in the Network, bargaining was active until the last lot. The first auction of 2018 was a good start to the auction season began.

Alexander manojlovich, AI