Results of Russian Christie's auction on 18 April in New York
ARTinvestment.RU   22 апреля 2008

«Results of Russian art auctions far exceeded the pre-assessment experts of the Firm, which was within 8,9-11,1 million dollars», - told RIA «News» representative of Christie's Sarah Fox

«Russian performance art is much more than a preliminary assessment of experts of the Firm, which was within 8,9-11,1 million dollars», - told RIA «News» representative of Christie's Sarah Fox. The spring auction sales brought home 17.6 million dollars, customers were offered nearly 300 works created in the XVIII-XX centuries.

The most expensive lot of trades in New York became the canvas by Ivan Shishkin «Lesnaya Polyana» sold for 3.2 million dollars, with more than twofold excess estimeyta. «Just as Leo Tolstoy was able to describe, Shishkin his palette was able to transmit heart and soul of Russian nature», - stated in the Christie's annotations to the Lot.

Projected «top lot of season», canvas native of St. Petersburg Alexander Yakovlev «Box Theater in Beijing», written in 1918 during the artist's first trip to China, did not find a buyer. Expert evaluation of the painting was 2.5 million dollars.

Others canvases not overcome the turn of a million dollars. The closest it came to the result of Nicholas Roerich's paintings «Zhar land», sold for 769 thousand dollars.

Of the works now live classics were represented by three works of Ilya Glazunov: most expensive landscape turned to a new owner for 25 thousand dollars.

traditionally has been high interest in silver: set to punch factory Ovchinnikova, made for the imperial house, was sold for 959.4 thousand dollars, four times higher than the estimates of experts.

Quite unexpectedly, this time, Christie's asked not only to the traditional Russian antiques, as icons or silver, but put up for auction campaign porcelain. Vase of the Lomonosov porcelain factory with the inscription «Red Army - Soviet protectress working class» (1927) with estimeytom to 350 thousand dollars was left unsold, possibly due to exaggerated price. But «serpastye-molotkastye» dining plates scattered at a price of about three thousand dollars apiece.

Source: www.rian.ru