Yesterday, 10 June, in London, the auction MacDougall's «Russian classical and contemporary art, which brought 7.56 million pounds. Bidding section of classical art have been the most performance benefit - their total was 6.82 million pounds. As for the section of contemporary art, then for her organizers managed to rescue the thousands of 743.8 pounds.

Top-lot auction was painting Pirosmani «Arsenal mountain at night" which took the hammer for 1.07 million pounds in Estima in 0,9-1,2 million. In second place was landscape Nicholas Roerich «Black Gobi, which could exceed the upper estimeyt (500-700 thousand pounds) and brought 790,000. The last in the top three auction Adultery with the work of "boat on the river", the price of which amounted to 618,000 pounds ( estimeyt 450-650 thousand). In the top five also included canvases "Wedding» Alexander Volkov with the result of 541,000 pounds and the Monastery of the Caves. A large bell » Sergei Vinogradov with the result of 309.9 thousand pounds.

In the section of contemporary art has become the most expensive painting Oleg Tselkov «Matador and bull", for which the buyer paid 120,000 pounds (estimate 100-150 thousand). The second and third places went to two of Vasily Sitnikov , «to freedom" and "Russian Winter", which brought 81.7 and 72 thousand pounds, respectively. Fourth was "The Sleeping Doll» Rabin with the result of 52,5 thousand pounds. A fifth line in the list of newly won sense of guilt. His painting "Man in the green hat", which was estimated at 18-30 thousand pounds, as a result gone under the hammer for 35.9 thousand.

material prepared Ekaterina Guseva, AI

Sources: macdougallauction.com , artinvestment.ru