Sales of Russian art at Sotheby's set six records in the prices
ARTinvestment.RU   10 июня 2008

Evening sale of works of Russian art that took place on 9 June at London's Sotheby auction

Evening sale of works of Russian art, held June 9 at the London auction Sotheby's, did not have sensations, but set record prices for works by six artists. The most fierce battle unfolded over pastel Zinaida Serebryakova «Polulezhaschaya naked», which eventually went under the hammer for 920 thousand pounds, with an estimated value of 150-200 thousand. Given the commission price for this work exceeded 1 million pounds.

The previous record price was beaten to the works of Konstantin Юона whose work «The Kremlin on the eve of the wedding the kingdom of Tsar Michael Fyodorovich» was sold for 820 thousand pounds. Updated the top mark for the work of Konstantin Korovin: canvas «View from the terrace, Gurzuf» was sold for 1.3 million pounds (nearly 1.5 million, taking into account the Commission), and now the house Sotheby's has a record price for the famous impressionist works.

updated records Roklin Faith (220 thousand pounds), Gregory Glyukmana (235 thousand pounds), and Leonid Pasternak (400 thousand pounds).

More than a quarter, 15 out of 56 exhibited at the auction of lots remained unsold. Most «top» lots barely reached the lower limit of estimeyta (appraised value).

The total assessed value of all lots of evening sessions in excess of the catalog of £ 22 million, while total receipts on the basis of bidding a little bit not reached 18 million pounds (based on the auction committee, this amount slightly exceeded 21 million pounds).

The most expensive lot of current «Russians bid» - Work «Still Life with Fruit» Natalia Goncharova sold for 2 million pounds sterling (estimeyt: 2-3 million pounds). Given the commission cost of this picture was nearly 2.3 million pounds.

Planck broke a million pounds, three more images: canvas «Pushkin and Countess Raevskaya on the seashore near Gurzuf and Partenita» brush Ivan Aivazovsky sold for 1.6 million pounds in the evaluation of 1,2-1,8 million have already been mentioned work Korovina «View from the terrace, Gurzuf» (sold for 1.3 million pounds when estimeyte 600-800 thousand) and «Still life with peaches and red» Goncharova, converted to a new owner for 1 million pounds (estimeyt: 1-1,5 million).

«We are very happy with the results of today's evening auction, which demonstrated that the market continues to ripen», - said at the end of the trading head of Sotheby's Russian department Joanna Vickery, adding that customers are seeking high quality works of Russian artists, which figuratively can be called «blue chips» the market - for example, or impressionist seascape Aivazovsky Korovina, for work which was a hot fight.

On the evening auction was billed five Aivazovsky paintings and four works Korovina.

Today, June 10, Sotheby's holds the major auction of works of Russian painting, and June 12 in the auction house will be selling jewelry.

Total at this year's summer «Russian auction» auction house Sotheby's offered 670 lots.

Source: www.rian.ru ; artinvestment.ru