ARTinvestment.RU final tally of the charity auction 20-23 April 2010

Immediately after the terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway on March 29 forum ARTinvestment.RU voiced the idea to hold a charity auction to help victims of the attacks. That proposal received a massive response to the forum, and as visitors to the site and forum are people closely associated with the art business, the decision to collect pictures as lots for the auction was quite logical and, most importantly, quickly implementable. In order not to delay the process and involve the maximum number of participants, the auction was held in the online mode on the forum AI.

solving organizational issues and alert the media about the upcoming auction of a lot of time not taken, then in our office began to call, write, and come the authors, collectors, gallery owners, the heirs have already gone artists. They took paintings, graphics, photos. In total, the auction was granted 121 work 89 authors, including the schedule YP Annenkov , AP G. Bronfina, GS Vereisky , BI Volkov , AV Zykov, EI Unknown , ZKTsereteli , painting O. Amosova-Bunak , AF Buha , MA Roginsky , VF Stozharau , etc. The range of starting prices - from 1 thousand to 470 thousand rubles rubles.

paintings at a charity auction brought in and sent from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Maikop, Sochi, mail, and friends of friends drove them from the Ukraine, Israel, France and even of Georgia. Since Georgia was a different story: because at the time the message it was not any, activists forum organized delivery of pictures over Sochi. Pictures were floating on the sea, ride a donkey along mountain trails, and at the end of their path was carrying DHL.

Online auction held at the forum ARTinvestment.RU 20-23 April 2010. Post-auction sales went up May 15, 2010.

As a result, were sold 48 paintings totaling 1,027,800 rubles.

First half trading was quiet, lots were sold in a price range of 1 000-5 000. The main trade unfolded in the past half hour before the auction closes. As a result, during the online auction sold 33 paintings worth about 250 000 rubles. Then, when seemingly all over, it is actually just begun. They began to call and people come and buy the unsold lots. The process took a very intense, some pictures turned out for two or three people willing to buy. For example, the price of the painting Aron Buch rose from 60 000 to 180 000. During the post-auction were sold for another 15 paintings worth more than 700 000 rubles, and the result of a charity auction exceeded one million. The owners of paintings have become citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and Belgium.

general impression from the past - very positive. All participants - sellers and buyers - glad that the money will go to a good thing. Not a single voiced lament that, they say, should help the state, not us. On the contrary, all have taken a proactive stance and it is clear that it wanted to personally assist and helped people in trouble.

We signed a contract with the Department of Social Welfare in Moscow and not without difficulty, but still achieved the inclusion of a paragraph, which obliges the Department to use the proceeds for their intended purpose - to help citizens affected by terrorist attacks in the subway (29 March 2010), "- and give us a report on their use.

All funds received - 100000027000 eight hundred rubles - deposited in the Department of Social Welfare in Moscow.

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We thank all who responded, gave the work, helped in organizing the auction and received in it.

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