Russian auction Christie's and Sotheby's on June 3. Summary results
At Christie's top lot was a still life Mashkov for 4.76 million pounds. Total revenue for the 211 lots was 12.4 million pounds. At Sotheby's portrait Feshina sold for 1.5 million, and the total result of 30 lots - 8.7 million pounds
«Russian art." Christie's. June 3, 2013
Russian art auction results Christie's, which was held on June 3 and the Russian opened the week trading amounted to 12.4 million pounds (18.9 million dollars). In the course of the auction, consisting of two sessions (Russian art and Russian decorative and applied arts), has sold 211 lots from 284 offered (74%). In monetary terms, revenues reached 85%. Compared with similar auctions a year ago (8.3 million pounds) revenue increased by 49%.
favorite trades became a masterpiece brush Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (1881-1944) «Still Life with Fruit", which was sold for a record sum for the works of the artist 4.76 million pounds (7.25 million dollars) . This is a new record price for the works of Russian artists, sold through international auction of Russian art. The previous record price for the specialized Russian bid belonged to the canvas brush Ilya E. Repin «Paris Cafe" sold in 2011 for 4.52 million pounds.
«Still Life with Fruit" - one of 20 works Mashkov included in the first exhibition of "Jack of Diamonds", which was held from December 1910 to January 1911. By about 1920, "Still Life with Fruit" was in the collection of William Beffi (1880-1950). Many of the works in this collection are kept today in the collections of leading museums, including the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of the City of Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Top lots in the Russian section paintings also became: the painting "Sanctuaries and Citadels» , written in northern India in 1925 (482 thousands of pounds /733,000 dollars), "Portrait of Katie" brush Nikolai Fechin , dated 1926 year (386,000 lbs /587,000 dollars), the painting "Oak» Robert Falk , exhibited at the artist's personal exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery in 1924 (326,000 lbs /495,000 dollars).
String works from the collection of the heirs Mary Yakunchikova has been completely sold out for 172,000 pounds (262,000 dollars), twice as much as the lower estimate. Of particular note is made on the sketch artist patchwork wall, has participated in the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, which went under the hammer for 98,000 pounds (149,000 dollars).
| Stash purpurins, Two tone gold Christie's. 03/06/2013. Lot 221 Estimate: 100-150 thousand pounds Result: 482,000 pounds Source: christies.com |  State Products Porcelain Factory in Petrograd. 1919-1922 Christie's. 03/06/2013. Lots 320-331 The total estimate: 87-127 thousand pounds Scoring: 367,000 pounds Source: christies.com |
In section Russian arts and crafts undisputed top lot was a rare purpurinovaya box with inserts of two-color gold, Lady Paget acquired in the London office of Faberge in 1915. Stash-largest product of purpurin Faberge from appearing on the market in the last thirty years - was sold for 482,000 pounds (733,000 dollars). First offered for sale a selection of 12 items purchased socialist Tallis Augustus Avis at the beginning of the 1920s, to the highest bidder, the purpose of which was to raise funds for the starving Russian, was sold for 367,000 pounds (558,000 dollars). Clips include rare items made based on sketches popular among collectors Natalia Danko and Sergei Chekhonina .
Top 10 lots of the auction Christie's. "Russian art." June 3, 2013, London
| № lot | Description | Estimate, pounds | result, pounds | Buyer |
| 66 | Ilya Mashkov Still life with fruit. 1910 world auction record for the artist's works | 1 000 000-1 500 000 | 4765875 | International private buyer |
| 75 | Nicholas Roerich Sanctuaries and Citadels. 1925 | 000-700 500 000 | 481 875 | International private buyer |
| 221 | Purpurinovaya box with the elements of the two-color gold. Faberge workshop Henrik Vigstrema, St. Petersburg. 1913 | 000-150 100 000 | 481 875 | private buyer of Russia |
| 91 | Nicolai Fechin Portrait of Katy. 1926 | 000-350 250 000 | 385 875 | Russian art dealer |
| 63 | ROBERT FALK Oak. 1923 | 000-200 150 000 | 325 875 | private buyer of Russia |
| 76 | Saryan View of Mount Ararat from Yerevan | 000-300 200 000 | 265 875 | private buyer of Russia |
| 57 | Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky Open Window in the garden | 000-200 150 000 | 217 875 | Russian art dealer |
| 11 | Mikhail Vrubel Spring | 000-200 150 000 | 205 875 | International Art Dealer |
| 80 | Robert Falk House on the waterfront. 1929 | 000-200 150 000 | 181 875 | International private buyer |
| 30 | Ivan Shishkin River on the edge of the forest | 80 000-120 000 | 169 875 | International Consultant |
«Russian art." Sotheby's. June 3, 2013
at a Sotheby's auction on June 3 offered only paintings and graphic works of Russian artists. Russian arts and crafts in a separate auction Sotheby's, which will be held today, so now you can only sum up the sales of fine art.
 NICHOLAS FESHIN Portrait of the artist's wife and daughter. 1925 Sotheby's. 03/06/2013. Lot 22 Estimate: 500-700 thousand pounds Result: 1.48 million pounds Source: sothebys.com |  Lado Gudiashvili Temptation. 1921 Sotheby's. 03/06/2013. Lot 27 Estimate: 400-600 thousand pounds Result: 782,500 pounds Source: sothebys.com |
Of the 44 exposed artworks sold 30 (68.2%). The overall result was 8.7 million pounds, which is 85.5%of the mean estimate. The top lot was the "Portrait of the artist's wife and daughter," Nikolai Fechin. While the estimate 500-700 thousand pounds of work has got a new owner for 1.48 million pounds (2.26 million dollars). This is the latest in a series of famous feshinskih double portraits of his wife and daughter. His works are in private collections for decades and exhibited very rarely, perhaps only once.
Work Lado Gudiashvili « Temptation "exceeded the estimate 400-600 thousand pounds and sold for 782,500 pounds. The painting, donated by the famous Parisian beauty Nino Nikoladze not exhibited since 1925. The last time the job changed hands 60 years ago.
third most expensive work of the auction was the picture Natalia Goncharova « Cubist woman. " The work is not exhibited since 1969, was sold for 662.5 thousand pounds - in the estimate of 600-800 thousand pounds.
addition to the above work, good results have been achieved: landscape Peter Vereshchagin «View of the Palace Square in St. Petersburg" (Lot 5, estimate 300-500 thousand pounds , the result is 506.5 thousand pounds), the picture of "Children of the piano» Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky ( Lot 34, estimate 250-300 thousand pounds, the result is 422.5 thousand pounds), and the marina "Fishermen at sunset in Naples" (lot 34, estimate 200-300 thousand pounds, the result is 374.5 thousand pounds). However, other work Aivazovsky - "Night Ukrainian landscape" with an estimate of 300-500 thousand pounds - was left without a buyer, and it has once again confirmed that the market gives preference to the sea, not steppe landscape artist.
Top 10 lots of the auction Sotheby's. "Russian art." June 3, 2013, London
| № lot | Description | Estimate, pounds | result, pounds |
| 22 | Nicolai Fechin Portrait of the artist's wife and daughter. 1925 | 000-700 500 000 | 1482500 |
| 27 | Lado Gudiashvili temptation. 1921 | 000-600 400 000 | 782 500 |
| 18 | Natalia Goncharova Cubist woman. Around 1920 | 000-800 600 000 | 662 500 |
| 5 | PETER VERESHCHAGIN View of the Palace Square in St. -Peterubrge | 000-500 300 000 | 506 500 |
| 34 | Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky Children for piano | 000-300 250 000 | 422 500 |
| 2 | Ivan Aivazovsky Fishermen at sunset, Naples. 1843 | 000-300 200 000 | 374 500 |
| 26 | Nicholas Roerich Sanctuaries and Citadels. 1925 | 000-500 300 000 | 362 500 |
| 20 | Alexander Yakovlev Portrait of Irene von Radloff | 000-500 300 000 | 350 500 |
| 42 | Vladimir Lebedev Portrait Red Navy seaman. 1937 | 000-500 300 000 | 326 500 |
| 6 | Alexey Bogolyubov Steamboat on the Don | 000-350 250 000 | 314 500 |
Russian auction will continue today and tomorrow. More about upcoming auctions read here .
Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI
Sources : christies.com , sothebys.com , artinvestment.ru
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