Results Russians bidding at auctions Hampel (Munich)
ARTinvestment.RU   13 июля 2008

July 4 in Munich have been bidding the auction house Hampel, which was presented to Russian art of XIX - XX centuries

July 4, German auction house Hampel-auctions, held a series of trades a vast subject, which was presented, in particular, and the section devoted to Russian art.

At the auction was put up all 77 lots, including paintings of XIX - XX centuries, silver utensils and dishware, household items, sculptures and antique books. At this time a collection of Russian art has been quite modest, the main emphasis was placed on the paintings.

At the end of the auction most expensive lot was the painting Natalia Goncharova «Eagle» with the expertise of a creative artist Anthony partons and information technology expertise of the Institute of Laboratory Egers. When estimeyte at 180-200 thousand euros Goncharova's work, this time was sold for 170 thousand euros. In general, auction Hampel is a very common practice care of lots less than the stated lower limit estimeyta.

While most of the lots (44 of 77) were sold, the most interesting and at the same time, controversial works, whose authorship is ascribed «First Name», went at very low prices or even remained unsold. Do not buy a graphics Lyubov Popova and etyudnye work Sergei Gerasimov , very cheap (for 6 thousand euros) were purchased paintings Alexander Drevin .

«Composition» Konstantin Korovin have been sold for 75 thousand euro, «Type Petersburg» Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin - for 36 thousand euro, the picture emigrant Georges Lapshina - for 18 thousand euro.

surprise was the highest price paid for the work of contemporary artist Olga Bulgakova «Two Girls» 1994: the picture went to a record amount of 88 thousand euro.

According to experts, in recent years of Russian art, exhibited at the German bid auction houses are in demand mainly from Russian buyers, but unlike the Russians trades leading auction houses such as Sotheby's, Christie ' s, Macdougall's, here as the quality of the works, and the price level leaves much to be desired.

Indicators of investment risk for some works presented at auction on 4 July, you can look at site ARTinvestment.RU .

Anna Savitskaya

Source : www.hampel-auctions.com , artinvestment.ru