Russian art at Sotheby's. Stock Performance
Record prices for works by Yuri Pimenov and Alexei Kravchenko
Nov. 4 auction house Sotheby's held in New York regular trading works by Russian artists . The result - 10.6 million dollars. As predicted ARTinvestment.RU, the top lot of the auction was the canvas socialist realists Yuri Pimenov (1903-1977) . However, even we expected the price to $ 1 million (Estimé 400-600 thousand) was found for this gigantic work is too modest: the buyer laid out for the canvas already 1.54 million. Incidentally, the new record.
«Indian fairy tale" romance Alexei Kravchenko (1889-1940) , estimated at 1-1,5 million dollars, too, did not disappoint: the amount of sales totaled 1.48 million (forecast AI - 900 000). This pattern is undoubtedly the best of the few works by the artist that came to the auction market.
success and now waiting for "Trinity-Sergius Lavra in the winter» Viktor Popkov (1932-1974) «Family. July "also exceeded the estimate by more than half: 842,5 thousand dollars in the evaluation of 200-300 thousand (our forecast - 400000).
Among the top lots was also included in the popular sanguine Collectors Alexander Yakovlev « With Lamas, pushed for 782.5 thousand (estimate 500-700 thousand). But the interesting work of the "Russian Germans» Nicholas Zagrekov (1897-1992) «Two naked" (a score of 80 -120000, forecast AI 110 000), buyers are not found.
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