The prices on "Russian bid" Christie's. AI predictions came true
ARTinvestment.RU   01 декабря 2015

30 November at the auction of Russian art at Christie's in London raised about $8 million Top-лотами were the works by Abram Arkhipov, Alexander Bogomazov, Dmitry Plavinsky

Yesterday, 30 November, London hosted the "Russian trading" Christie's. Proceeds of the auction of Russian art totaled £5.3 million ($8 million). Top-лотом of the auction was the painting by Abram Arkhipov "Young peasant girl", who left for £398 500 ($601 735).

According to Christie's, the auction was attended by buyers from 40 countries that have bought 68 % of the catalogue (75 % in monetary terms).

Alex Tiesenhausen, Director of the international Department of Russian art Christie's: "the results of the auction suggests that in the painting section of the sale increased by more than 20% in comparison with June of 2015. Top-лотами of the auction began the painting by Abram Arkhipov "Young peasant girl", sold for £398 500 at an estimated price of £120 000–£150 000, and decorated with cloisonné enamel icon Ovchinnikov, pushed under the hammer for £206 500 (estimate £25 000–£35 000). Individual paintings and works of decorative-прикладного art, which first appeared on the market, but with outstanding provenance and rich exhibition history, also enjoyed great success regardless of the price categories. <...> the Art of nonconformity were also in demand, sold for £140 500 Dmitry Plavinsky "Vivaldi Music on the Grand-каналом" has set a new record price of the artist".

this Is the official post-релиз auction house. And we will be adding the results for those lots that are forecasted (see: "the London "Russian auction" for the first time without as copy. Get the directories to mice?"). Our assumptions for the most part proved to be correct-guessed almost everything.

Two Marina Alexey Bogolyubov were sold for $311 815 with the Commission of the auction house. Our forecast was $300 000. Lot became the second by value at Christie's. In favor of this pair of works played a comfortable size (74 × 44 each) and adequate estimate. The last time these two Marina went through an auction three years ago and then their price was $330 000.

Following our prediction concerned the large and impressive canvas Vasily Sitnikov "self-Portrait with crows on the background of the Kremlin", dated 1970. Work with all branded Sitnikov motifs (cupolas, snow, birch and spruce, and even a self-portrait in the bargain), has found a new owner for $166 855. We anticipated a little poskromnichal, assuming the care of $110 000. Although minus the fee of the BP then that is what happens.

a Pleasant surprise was the sale of "Portrait of Wanda's Monastery-Богомазовой (C. 1890-1980)"brush Alexander Bogomazov for $275 575 in the evaluation of lot $121 000–$181 000. Our forecast was at the level of the lower estimate and, to the joy of the deliverer, it was exceeded twice. The work of Bogomazov was fourth in the list of top-лотов, behind the already mentioned work of Arkhipov, Bogolyubov and decorated with enamel icon Ovchinnikov (Bogolyubov and Marina Ovchinnikova the icon has reached the same prices $311 815).

Two fairly accurate forecast have been given us regarding the work Oleg Tselkov "The new adventures of Superman" in 1978 and canvas "untitled" Lydia Masterkova. The picture Tsalkova makes a good comfortable size, valuable time, a good theme, publications. It came and reached the upper estimate and went for $75 500 (our forecast $80 000). As for the works by Lidia Masterkova, the interest of which has increased after a joint exhibition with Vladimir Nemuhina in the Museum, she went above estimate for $56 625 (forecast $60 000).

come True our assumption that the work of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov "Under the snow No. 18" of 2005, which bore a solid estimate of $273 000–$380 000, not find a buyer at auction. It seems that in the case of this work the gigantic size (to 172.8 × 404) played in minus. As for erotic drawings by Sergei Eisenstein, on the contrary, here the lot was not enough that has been done, and exceeded the estimate several times (the price of the lot $90 600 when evaluating $15 100–$22 650). We predicted the sale of this series of drawings for 15 thousand dollars.

much To the surprise, top-лотом trading Christie's was in General typical for the plot and execution of the painting by Abram Arkhipov. However, the specificity and recognition,-видимому, and was the trump card. Lot eventually three times exceeded the preliminary estimate — miracles.

a New personal record of distinguished Dmitry Plavinsky. Round his landscape "the Music of Vivaldi over the Grand-каналом", made in an interesting technique (collage from fragments of musical scores), exceeded the preliminary estimate at least 4 times and got a new owner for $212 155 (estimate $ 37 750–$52 850).

Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: christies.com, artinvestment.ru