25 Oct house "SOVKOM" held its anniversary, 150-й auction of Russian and Soviet art of the XIX — XX centuries.

the Hall was full. About 40 participants and observers came to see with their own eyes. The exact number of participants on the phones and absentee bids, we do not know.

In the catalogue of the 154 lots, the organizers collected works of Russian painting, graphics, sculpture and porcelain.

the nineteenth century has presented works of artists and masters of genre scenes: V. Makovsky, S. Voroshilova, N. Gritsenko, A. guinet, Y. Clover, G. bashinjaghian, A. Meschersky, G. Kondratenko and others.

the Majority of put on sale of the lots consisted of works of Soviet art Work G. of Nyssa, V. Perelman, I. Radoman, A. Gerasimova et al. have presented the first half and middle of the XX century Paintings of D. Nalbandian and N. Karahan, B. Shcherbakov, Y. Kugach, O. Ponomarenko and other famous Soviet authors — in the second half. Some works of Mikhail Roginsky, D. Krasnopevtsev, N. Nesterova, etc. made of string other art.

Painting 2000-х were in the minority: it took no more than three lots.

took Five lots of Russian and Soviet sculpture. The directory complements the decorative-прикладного art and porcelain, as well as Soviet poster, graphics and photography.

the Results are summarized as follows: of the 138 lots remaining in the directory after the 16 lots were removed from sale before the auction, sold 59, or 42.7 per cent. More than half sold (34 lots) was won by the participants in the room, absentee rates pulled down 21 lot, and only 4 positions were able to play the members on the phone.

Leaders of trades was painting "Steamer "Russia"," City of Nyssa "Winter landscape" Yu Clover-старшего. They were sold at about the same price with a small margin. "The ship..." went for $75 million by absentee rate, and "Winter landscape" yielded only 2 thousand and was sold for $73 thousand in the party room.

Second place was taken by the monumental sculpture "Gymnast", for which the buyer paid $30 thousand (the name of the sculptor is not given but is available examination A. Gilodo).

the Third place was divided between K. Korovin and A. Salakhova. The work of artists was bought for $20 thousand each absentee rate. Sketch of the decorative panels of the Russian impressionist cost was the equivalent of black Belgian marble "Without words" Aidan Salakhova.

The hottest of the lot was the picture N. A. Ponomareva "In the office". Traded for it for a long time. In the end, the owner of peaceful scenes of Soviet everyday life was a party in the hall, who offered a bet of $8.8 thousand, in two and a half times more than the lower estimate.

Anastasia Zaretskaya, AI