The results of the auction "KABINET" February 17
ARTinvestment.RU   20 февраля 2018

Successful February auction opened with the sale of a huge collection in one lot

On February 17, the auction house "KABINET" appointed not even two sessions of trading, and two full-fledged auction.

Auction Saturday the day started with the new-йоркского archive "Russian samovar". This collection of more than seven hundred subjects, fifty of which are associated with the name of Joseph Brodsky, and the rest — with Michael Belomlinsky, Mikhail Shemyakin, Ilya Kabakov and other iconic figures of his time. The collection was offered at auction in one lot as the auction received offers to buy the whole thing. This event of course has not gone unnoticed: only the hall was over two and a half dozen people, not to mention observers in the Network. The game started with absentee bid 300 thousand. E. and after a struggle absentee bids by phone and hall ended with the victory of the latter: the collection was sold for 320 thousand. E.

After a short break, opened the second auction. Catalogue of the auction of "Autographs, letters, manuscripts from private archives. The St. Petersburg collection. Bronze age" contained 248 lots, and, as its name implies, the collection was multifaceted. Lots associated with Joseph Brodsky, did not pass this auction and side by side with the works of the leading artists of the informal art, journals, manuscripts, as well as with a significant number of subjects who formed the "St. Petersburg collection".

as a result of the auction, which lasted two and a half hours with a technical break from 248 to play turned out to 172 lots, 69.3% of the catalog. Hall got 66,8% sold Internet won 26.2 percent, on absentee rates was won only 7 % of the lots, and the phone participants at this time was not simple. Total revenue was also pretty decent: 6,9 million rubles, or 50.4 percent of the total average estimate.

leadership in the records of the auction, not without a fight, managed to win "talking" to a diary writer Benedict Yerofeyev V., with which he communicated with the world in the last years of his life. A small notebook on the spring was initially estimated at 1-1,5 million rubles, but in the process of bidding this lot opened the "discount day": the starting price of RUB 1 million participants is not supported, therefore, with the submission of the organizers of the auction, the auctioneer gradually began to reduce the first bet and reached 550 thousand. This figure room and Internet-участники found it acceptable and began to bargain. During the struggle the hall and the Internet price of a notebook rose to 700 thousand rubles., for which lot and were won by players in the Network.

Second place went to lot, worthy the attention of all lovers of the fantasy genre and art: lot included thirty original illustrations by Mikhail Samuilovich Belomorskogo for the first Russian edition of the works of JRR Tolkien, "the Hobbit, or There and back again", accompanied by the author's layout of the future book. This relatively small selectiongraphics made with ink, different from many other illustrations: the main prototype for the image of the main character was an actor Yevgeny Leonov, making the publication among all the others like him, while remaining a favorite for many generations of readers. Presented to the public with an estimate of 300-400 thousand rubles., this lot is extremely well went to party in the hall for 480 thousand rubles., made it past the Internet-игроков and correspondence bet.

In third place was another selection related Venedikt Yerofeyev, namely paper personal correspondence: four letters to her Bow and seven letters in response, all dated 1976. His preliminary assessment was not very high (50-100 thousand rubles), especially in comparison with other subjects that are directly related to the life of the famous writer, but the sale was successful and no risk trade for expensive top-лоты with millions of the estimate, the participants plenty to fight over this car, raising its value up to 310 thousand.

Exactly the same approach was used by participants in respect of lot 121, which contained the diary entries of the same Venedikt Erofeev. Although handwritten draft records and are unable to get to the top-пять, the difference of the estimate and sale price were significant: lot, estimated at 35-50 thousand rubles, was sold for 180 thousand rubles. In General, of twelve lots with the labels "from the archive of Venedikt Erofeev", has sold seven, which certainly can be considered a good result.

a Separate unit on the auction of the informal artists of the "Bronze age". Of the forty-four lots of paintings and graphics to the new owners took a little less than half — nineteen, so you can easily imagine another top sales at this time for the fine arts.

First among equals was a sheet with a series of sketches in black ink the hands of Oscar Rabin won by a participant from the Network 140 thousand. — is twice lower estimeyta.

Second place went to silkscreen Komar and Melamid's "Our flag", numbered the sixth instance of the twelve. Slightly more modest than the work of Rabin, the lower estimate of 60 thousand rubles., theirthe work was reclaimed by the party in the hall for 100 thousand RUB from absentee bids and network players.

the third place was at the paintings by Konstantin A. Batynkov "Airplane". Poborovshis bit with the part-time rate, the player in the hall acquired a painting by one of the company copyright stories for 70 thousand.

Alexander manojlovich, AI