It is inconceivable can not be foreseen. In the categories of investment logic of the price level of pre-exposed objects, of course, the expected high. But that is so ...

Well, that is to say ... Schwarzman - 192 thousand pounds (the upper estimeyt 60 thousand pounds). Вейсберг - 186 thousand pounds (6-fold excess of the ceiling estimeyta). Tselkov - 126 thousand pounds (4.6 pounds per square centimeter canvases ¹ ). Prior to limit strenuous emotional numbers. So, in U.S. Schwarzman and Вейсберг - under 400 thousand. In the five times higher than the market. More precisely, the market that existed before 15 February 2007. Before the auction Sotheby's «Contemporary Russian Art».

can not predict the unthinkable. In the categories of investment logic of the price level of pre-exposed objects, of course, the expected high. But what is so ... A month before the auction obvious masterpieces D set price «diagnosis» often double the maximum estimeyta. But the actual cost turned out to be three times, four times higher. Ironically, more precisely, we «guessing» where a reasonable prediction, it was difficult to make. On creativity Timur Novikov no statistics, but the final cost of its «White Nights» (36 thousand pounds) sold out to forecast only a thousand.

A picture collected the highest price, D, to confess, not noted in the number of «haylaytov». Eugene I. Chubarov, 1934 birth. Trehmetrovaya vertical abstraction untitled period 1992-1995. 288 thousand pounds - more than half a million dollars. The correct place for such things - in a modern exhibition hall with a five-ceilings. She will not even «elitku», and if the crew and the movers will be able to put it, it will eclipse everything. To understand this, just before 1 March in time for the exhibition «From icons to Fuck'd: Create your Museum» Gallery Gary Tatintsyan. On the right wall hangs a technically very similar trehmetrovaya abstraction Chubarova only noticeably better. Giant of the same in 1992. A month ago at the opening of Gary asked that his collection of liked most? I chose it, George Condo, and he is mysteriously drawn attention to its Chubarova. Like a presentiment of something, or knew?

investigate and who it is - Chubarov? In 1999, group exhibition, even the New York gallery Tatintsyan in 2004-m - «personalka» in the Russian Museum. Have met with critics comparing energy Chubarova and Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kuninga. Obviously, the comparisons too bold, on the verge of tension. On the other hand, say that the abstraction Chubarova «dutye» and uninteresting, too, can not. Yes, technically it is the work of jewelry, that is, of course, is in contradiction with the spirit of momentary fury of abstract expressionism. Nevertheless, energy picture does not seem «artificially», a thing - frankly commercial. This is a plus. But whether it is the result of the price?

This is difficult. You know how many paintings were sold Chubarova until February at Sotheby's auction? None. This nameless abstraction of 1992 - the first entry in the statistics of the artist at auction artprice.com . We know that such a style of his expressionist painter found only in the 1990's. Prior to that, his work often stay in the figurative genre, though, and were quite original. There is evidence that in 1970 in his studio came Mytishchi Kabakov was struck by the courage and vision the artist saw the Bashkir totem (the artist comes from there) and shamanistic mystic schedule. The monumental same thing, according to some sources, the artist began to form only in Berlin, where he worked since 1990. Perceive Chubarova Sixties as many seem to be difficult, and strange - not really hurt from that, he «magazines». He has long left the atmosphere of the sixties (which did not make the rest of the «other arts»). His artistic language has become too modern. Today the portfolio is not only Chubarova trehmetrovye canvases, but also video and acoustic installations that create an abstract multi-media environment. And there is still a red figure of 228 thousand pounds, which, despite all doubts, will remain a powerful argument gallery, the same as a million Krasnopevtseva.

Erik Bulatov. Revolution-Perestroika. 1988. Oil on canvas. 200 × 200. Estimeyt: 80-120 thousand pounds. Forecast D: 60 thousand pounds or not sold. Sale price: 198 thousand pounds. Sotheby's. 15.02.07. Lot number 76

bring to choose the main event of the February auction of Russian, the principal called the sensation would not Chubarova. And do not bulge-sotsart «Revolution-Perestroika» Erik Bulatov, somehow miraculously sold over 198 thousand pounds. Most remembered for sale - it Rukhin with «modest» by the standards of the rest of «haylaytov» 72 thousand pounds (about 140 thousand dollars). Given the maximum estimeyt, 18 thousand pounds, it was a breakthrough. It is not just about money, and finally, a fair result for the brightest objects bidding. Solely on the quality and at the same time clean devoid of decorative «pop», inherent in the works present the first names of the «other art». And it is not important whether the spirit of non-art? Perhaps, from this moment Petersburg artist can be deleted from our list of undervalued (it is still Vladimir Yankilevsky, Dmitry Plavinsky and Ernst Neizvestny). About the prices at the level of 15-30 thousand dollars now will have much to forget. No, of course, automatically 100 thousandth the level of all the «relief» Yevgenia Rukhin not be overcome. But come close to it, perhaps, with prices about 70 thousand dollars (about 35 thousand pounds).

What is the lesson prepodadut «Russian art auction»? Particularly dramatic effects of the market is not expecting. At five times the price across the whole spectrum does not rise exactly. As they say, the «people» do not have such money. Here is a scenario in which that cost 80 yesterday, tomorrow will cost 120, it is quite likely. Current recommendations as investors leaves D unchanged: clearly the work of acquiring undervalued artists of the first magnitude (Vladimir Yakovlev, more Yankilevsky, Plavinsky yet Rukhin and Ernst Neizvestny) and for reasonable money - the main work of artists «magazines»: Nemukhin, Rabin , Krasnopevtseva, Shvartsman, Tselkova, Вейсберга. Good investment potential, probably founded in the work of artists «Second Russian foreign», for example in the works of Yuri Cooper (Kupermana) Vagricha Bahchanyana and some others. «Russian boom» is not yet reached smaller regional auctions in France, Germany, USA and Israel, where the work of the sixties can be found on much more modest prices than at Sotheby's. For them, and is worth paying particular attention to.

Let me repeat that in the short term you can expect a substantial increase in the price of creativity, perhaps the most progressive of the Sixties - Vladimir Yankylevsky. In spring this year, his exhibition will be held in the fund «Catherine» in Moscow, and in summer a large retrospective will open at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Noted that such events usually draw attention to the artist of the new collectors, and contribute to higher prices. For Yankylevsky, according to D, the next success would be expected and deserved.

In general, such a rapid rise in the prices of post-war and contemporary art market experts are concerned. After all, selling expensive, not only unqualified masterpieces, but also secondary effects. This shows the lack of a strong market - a small sentence on the quality of things. And this is an alarming sign. In such circumstances, the new generation of potential collectors Russians could switch to the acquisition of Western art. If you buy ieratury Shvartsman technically harder than the work of Picasso, the new generation of collectors could make a choice and in favor of Picasso. And with such a «poster» return to pochvennichestvu expect difficult. And on health, only for the Russian art market that money will be lost.

Source: www.sothebys.com www.artprice.com

 

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¹ More about this strange mechanism of pricing, see Bogdanov. Contemporary Russian art at Sotheby's. //Direktor-Info. 2006. Number 2 (233). S. 42-48.