Collected Works Martiros Saryan redeemed prior to the auction
ARTinvestment.RU   12 июня 2008

History repeats itself. Do not have time otshumet passion about doauktsionnyh shopping Faberge eggs and a collection of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, in the same manner as purchased collection of works Martiros Sarian

London auction house MacDougall's sold unnamed collector assembly of the seven works of Armenian artists Martiros Saryan for 1.2 million dollars (600 thousand pounds sterling). Paintings and graphics wizard should have been put up for auction on 12 and 13 June 2008, but the transaction took place on the eve of the auction.

The most expensive of the proposed house MacDougall's picture - «Aragats. Summer »- exhibited in estimeytom 440-600 thousand dollars (220-300 thousand pounds); landscape« Ashtarak overcast day »- with estimeytom 80-120 thousand dollars (40-60 thousand pounds). The buyer bought these and the remaining work on the maximum assessed value.

It is important that the assembly has a good provenansom: the MacDougall's catalog stated that all of the previously belonged to the relatives of Sarian.

house Bonhams, which is par with MacDougall's and the two largest auction companies, Christie's and Sotheby's hold in the second decade of June «Russian auction in London», sold June 9, Saryan still life in 1916 for 72 thousand dollars (36 thousand pounds).

Source: www.rian.ru