As they left the masterpieces: the results of the auction "Russian enamel" on October 27
ARTinvestment.RU   01 ноября 2018

Top-лотом was the archive of the civil wife "the demon of the Russian revolution" Alexander Parvus, sold for 5 million rubles

But only for the auction, held Saturday evening in hotel "national", sold 17.7 million rubles. Sold 56 % of the catalog (lot 241 of 425), 50 % of the average total estimate. From the audience I watched and was attended by about 25 people, up to 90 buyers bid online, and about a dozen collectors prefer the good old telephone bidding. A lot of this time, absentee rates, including on top-лоты.

most of the sales in quantitative terms, it was Internet and absentee rates, but the elected top-лоты buying customers by phone. In particular, it is a phone buyer has acquired over 5 million documents, objects and photographs from the archives of the civil wife of Alexander Parvus. The lower estimate was set at 4.5 million rubles, but the real bargaining started from the Internet from 4.8 million rubles. Alexander Lvovich Parvus (real name Israel Lazarevich Gelfand) — "demon of the Russian revolution", played by Fyodor Bondarchuk in the series 2017, in real life was close to not Sofya Rudneva (whose role in the same series played Paulina Andreeva), and with his Secretary (according to another version, housekeeper) Mary Schillinger. The couple never married, had two children. Mary ended her days in Cape town of South Africa a certain unnamed Russian scientist brought in the early 1990-х rare evidence of the life of Parvus: a few photos, passport, cheque book, letters to Mary, and even the American order of the Purple heart, which was given to the son of Mary, Schillinger and Parvus — Hans Schillinger. This entire archive was put up for auction "Russian enamel" on October 27. I must say that the time was chosen very well in light of the recent celebrations of 100-летия revolution and increased in connection with the release of the series of interest to the personality of Parvus. Now in possession of the unknown buyer turned out to be a genuine historical materials can shed new light on some aspects of the life of this mysterious person (materials on Purpose cover mainly the period from 1914 to 1920).

in Addition to the archive of Parvus, top-лотов also includes the archive of the Leningrad underground poet Oleg Evgenievich Grigoriev (1943-1992). More than 500 units of materials — photographs, manuscripts, typing and notebooks of poems, pictures of Grigorieva and more — were offered with an estimate of 380-400 thousand rubles., but the actual bargaining started with half a million rubles. Traded Internet, phone and zaochku. But online-претендент soon retreated, and the bargaining went between the phone buyer and the part-time rate. To kill the last was only at around 875 thousand. It was the second value of the lot of the "literary Fund".

the Third selection,split into several lots (lots 418-425), consisted of notes, lectures, notebooks, and first separate edition of the poem "Moscow — end of the line" with the author's corrections of Venedikt Erofeev. For materials from the archive of the writer paid a total of over 1.3 million (165% of estimate Thong). The above-mentioned first separate publication of the poem "Moscow — end of the line" autographed and author's corrections, which led the text almost to the final version, was sold for 320 thousand rubles, three times the above estimate 95-100 thousand RUB Over the lot arguing in the main room and the phone, and the last one was stronger. One of the notebooks, in 1986, went for 480 thousand RUB online when rating from 250 thousand rubles., and the other (Notebook June No. 5, 1986) — for 320 thousand rubles (estimate 250-270 thousand RUB).

One of the busiest was bargaining for a book by V. S. Zikeev "Table chromatics" from the library of artist-авангардиста V. N. Muller (Moscow: ogiz-ИЗОГИЗ, 1936). A manual for students, largely supplementing the book on colour theory of Mikhail Matiushin was estimated to 25-27 thousand RUB Struggled room, Internet, telephone, zaochku. After a long bargain and the other competitors are still stepped in front of the too high part-time rate: the hammer price amounted to 420 thousand. — is almost 17 times higher than the start!

And another lot, many times exceeding the estimate, became rare collection of the six issues of the magazine "Modern woman" ("The Modern Woman"), produced for the Russian emigrants in Shanghai before world war II. At the stated estimate 18-20 thousand RUB from bidding started with 130 thousand rubles (pre-Internet-ставки did the trick), and after a few steps of the auction lots went to one of the online-игроков for 160 thousand rubles (the lower estimate was exceeded in 8.8 times).

Among other important sales of the auction "the Collection of masterpieces of national importance" to mention care of the album "Picturesque Caucasus" (Paris: Typ. brothers Plon, 1847) from the collection of the Archduke of the Austrian 500 thousand руб.; sale maps of the black sea region and Russia of the end of the XVI century (sale price — on 400 thousand roubles each, while the starting rating from 100 thousand rbl.); selling rare photo of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan, among the men of 300 thousand rubles (estimate of 280-300 thousand rubles); sale at the same price of 300 thousand RUB two sheets of cartoons of Alexander Blok for teachers of mathematics in the gymnasium, where he studied the poet (score of 280-300 thousand rubles.).

by Maria Onuchina, AI