Yesterday in New York was held « Russian bid »Sotheby's . The most expensive work of art has become a predictable pattern Ivan Ivan Aivazovsky «Departure of Columbus from Palos». Before the predicted ARTinvestment.RU 2,5 million dollars, it's true, not dotyanula but estimeyt (1-1,5 million) did exceeded. Price of work was 1.6 million dollars.

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unexpectedly high price paid for the picture by Boris Grigoriev, Boris «Cooking pancakes». Sotheby's specialists praised her in the 500-700 thousand dollars, as much as it had 1.26 million, taking a second line in the list of the most expensive lots. Another picture Grigor'eva, «Portrait of girl with toys», the buyer is not found.

In third place - drawing sanguine Alexander Yakovlev under the title «Samurai». During this struggle flared grave: when estimeyte 85-125 thousand dollars, she was sold for 602.5 thousand.

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Job Nicholas Nicholas Roerich «Martyr Mercury Smolensky» (estimeyt 500-700 thousand dollars) decorate the cover of the auction catalog, was not sold. But other paintings by the artist went very well: mystical composition «Secrets walls» had 530.5 thousand dollars estimeyte at 150-200 thousand, and the landscape «Monhegan Island, Maine» was sold for 434.5 thousand, with a preliminary assessment of 250-350 thousand . Interestingly, the «Tibetan» and «Himalayas» landscapes Rerikh enjoyed great popularity, though they are far away and not so rare as «Mercury Smolensky». For example, the painting «Tibet. Buddha on the road »left over 170.5 thousand dollars when estimeyte 18-20 thousand. The same amount has canvas «new moon», estimated at 30-40 thousand.

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success enjoyed painting and son Nikolai Konstantinovich, . Work «Three Bodhisattva», created in the 1920's, estimated at 60-80 thousand, and left to 266.5 thousand. Canvas «Lama» the same period yielded 146.5 thousand, with thousands of estimeyte 40-60. A canvas «Female Portrait» was sold for 170.5 thousand, while Sotheby's experts had hoped for much more modest amount - 25-35 thousand.

April 22, include not only the «day Roerichs», but «day Burliuk ». All three paintings of this «father of Russian Futurism» , which ARTinvestment.RU named among the top lots of yesterday's auction were sold quite well. Rare picture «Blue Rider» had 302.5 thousand in the entire estimeyte 100-150 thousand (forecast AI - 150 thousand). One of the advantages of work - an excellent provenans: «Blue Rider» more than 40 years in the collections of the Museum Hirshhorna in Washington. The futuristic «witch» left over 182,5 thousand dollars - in estimeyta (150-200 thousand). AI predicted the price of the work in 170 thousand. Another creature Burliuk, primitivistskaya picture «Women who put potato», has 21 thousand in the 15-20 thousand estimeyte (forecast AI - 27 thousand).

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«Dress Firebird» surrealist Paul Chelischeva was sold for 146.5 thousand during the preliminary assessment of 40-60 thousand (forecast AI - 100 thousand). This is one of the most outstanding works by the artist that appeared at auction in recent years. Another piece Chelischeva, «Still Life with Flowers», lasted for 182.5 thousand, with thousands of estimeyte 50-70. A canvas depicting a naked man, estimated at 70-90 thousand dollars, had 134.5 thousand. In short, the sellers of Chelischeva yesterday, complaining it was not for that.

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«Sketch scenery» miriskusnika Sudeikin (estimeyt 25-35 thousand forecast AI - 35 thousand) had been sold. The same fate befell a realistic landscape «riverside» brush Peredvizhniki Kisseleva , estimated at 30-40 thousand. ARTinvestment.RU doubted that sell work - too bad history with the currently associated with the name of the artist. His works appeared in the infamous case antique Preobrazhensky: fraudsters selling Western landscape painters the second row, «turned» by Kisseleva.

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From the works of artists, nonconformists had the highest total metaphysical still life «clutter on the shelf» Vladimir Vladimir ÷ÅÊÓÂÅÒÇÁ . The painting was estimated at 60-80 thousand dollars (forecast AI - the lower estimeytu) and left for 101,5 thousand. Similar still life in shades of white, «Composition with fish» brush Edward Steinberg , has 74.5 thousand dollars, slightly higher than preliminary assessment of 50-70 thousand. As in the case of ÷ÅÊÓÂÅÒÇÏÍ, ARTinvestment.RU showed restraint predicted work withdrawal of 45 thousand dollars.

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nice to end trading in uncharacteristic work Plavinsky and Dmitry Krasnopevtseva . Unnamed architectural orgalit Plavinsky went for 43.7 thousand, and early still life Krasnopevtseva called «Burzhuyka» has 46.8 thousand. Both works have been estimated at 35-45 thousand dollars, and ARTinvestment.RU predicted care for lower estimeytu.

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Portfolio nonconformists Tselkova , Vladimir Nemukhin and Yevgenia Rukhin , which ARTinvestment . RU mentioned in his review, found no buyers. There have also been sold to a very interesting works of contemporary artists Kopystyanskoy and Arsen Savadov . But the picture «Meeting of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt with the Shah of Iran Mohammed Pahlavi Rezoy» brush Soviet academician Alexandra Gerasimova exceeded the upper estimeyt almost twice. Work has 74,5 thousand dollars, with preliminary estimates of 30-40 thousand. The result is unexpected: ARTinvestment.RU believed that if the painting and sell, then at a price not exceeding the lower limit estimeyta.

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Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: sothebys.com , artinvestment.ru