Passport of Viktor Tsoi was sold for 9 million rubles
ARTinvestment.RU   28 сентября 2018

In addition to this sensational deal, at auction September 26, timed to 3-летию "literary Fund", sold another 256 lots totaling over 28.5 million roubles

To the beginning of the auction, organized no less in the hall "Moscow" hotel "national", has gathered about fifty people. A good half of them were not collectors, not the deliverers and not even the dealers, and the press. Line of cameras stretches along the last row of chairs, microphones Central television, wrote sound from the first row, the elegant correspondent was planirovali between buffet and auction rooms. Everyone was waiting for trades for the passport of Viktor Tsoi, phonebook musician and autograph of the song "I Want change". And I had to wait a long time. At the start of the auction at 7 p.m., prior to the sale of things of Viktor Tsoi it came in only 11-м hour. But the journalists were completely rewarded for your patience: it's not every day a passport cult musician goes under the hammer for 9 million rubles.

History the sudden appearance of the passport of Viktor Tsoi at auction rather vague, all the details and versions fully covered in the press, to delve we will not. But what I would really like to note is a strange, sudden failure of the equipment to demonstrate all of the lots for the two lots before the advent of the long awaited passport (previously all worked fine). Technical (or, as it is called in the hall, "mystical") hitch, however, was quickly overcome, and a lot still played all the auction to the canons between the dealer in the hall and a client on the phone whose rate was announced by Sergei Burmistrov. Was and dramatic pauses, and steps for half a million rubles, and the applause at the end of the auction. Lots went to telephone to the player. To it left and a notebook of Viktor Tsoy (result, 3 million rubles at the start with 500 thousand), and the manuscript of the song "I Want change" with some ambiguity regarding the final version of the text (the result of 3.6 million rubles). The dealer hall phone buyer has lost only the fourth and last lot zuevskogo Thong — draft manuscripts of three songs, including two unknown.

But what remained in the shadow of Viktor Tsoi? And in the shade were very good, dynamic auction, which sold was 67 % of the lots catalog. Less zuevskogo Thong, the proceeds of the auction amounted to 21.4 mln (90.7 per cent of the total appraised value of the lots). Actively traded by phone and online. Online watching the auction about one hundred (!) (although there is not excluded the factor of Tsoi).

absolute top-лотом among the antique editions of the XVIII–XIX centuries was the "Letter to a friend jitelstva in Tobolsk" Alexander Radishchev (1790), published a special brochure in the author printing. Today we know that there is only 6-7 proofs "Letters". For bibliographic rarity argued three phone player and came to 3 million rubles at the start from 700 thousand rubles

For 1.8 million rubles, while the estimate of 120-130 thousand rubles. was sold for an autograph of a poem by Afanasy FET "the Dream / the Awakening / Melts mist" and signed by the poet for a month and a half to death open letter.

a Rare edition of the Russian avant-garde — "Ostrat Easter" Ilya Zdanevich with the author's autograph — in the fight phone player and participant in the hall rose in price from 700 thousand rubles to 1.15 million RUB Lot won full-time buyer. The same player got a rare original photo of Vladimir Mayakovsky as Ivan Nova in the movie "Not for money born". The hammer price amounted to 650 thousand rubles at the start with 30 thousand rubles (estimate was exceeded21 times).

Finally, for 2 million rubles was bought by "Suprematist tale about two square" El Lisitsky (Berlin: Skify, 1922). This, perhaps, will complete our story about the anniversary auction for 3-летию "literary Fund". We congratulate the organizers of the auction with such high-profile sales. Let's wait for new interesting collections.

Maria Onuchina, AI