"Russian auction» Bonhams on December 1. Summing up
Top lot was the painting by Robert Falk, sold for 120,000 pounds
in London yesterday was « Russian auction "arranged by the house Bonhams . According to an eyewitness , buying activity this time was very high , much higher than the held the day before Sotheby's . a general result of Bonhams auction totaled 3.38 million pounds . The highest price was reached in a segment of decorative art: a mosaic table from the Winter Palace went for a fantastic £ 916,000 (estimate - 150-200).
With regard to the fine arts, then Here the top lot was a calm "Landscape with a barge and a crane» Robert Falk . Painting master "Jack of Diamonds" bought for 120,000 pounds (preliminary assessment - 100-150 thousand).
graces the cover of the catalog, "King Solomon» Svyatoslav Roerich failed to sell. Work is expected to gain a 300-400 thousand pounds. AI expect more substantial sum - about 600 thousand in the end, the work is very decorative, and the author of collectors like to have been in his auction "career" and seven-digit results.
graphic work Nicholas Vechtomova «Night horizon" that AI identified as the most liked, too, found no buyer. Sorry: the estimate (3.5 kips) was very tempting. AI expected care in the area of four thousand. Of his contemporaries was the biggest surprise mysterious artist Alexander Ivanov (born 1962), whose abstract work titled "The Beginning of the End" (1993) yielded 60,000 pounds, and this despite the fact that bidding began with 2,5 thousand.
AI also remember the picture of Russian symbolist Paul Mac under the titled "Mourning Mother" (estimate 3-5 thousand), which ultimately remained unsold (estimate - 6,000 pounds). Apparently, the piercing look depicted in the portrait of a woman was too scary for prospective buyers. The same fate befell the ghostly "Portrait of the wife» Simcha Simhovich , put up for auction with an estimate of 8-12 thousand pounds, despite the fact that less than six months ago, work was sold in 7000.
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