The first auction of works of art - "Russian auction house"
 

24/11/2010
PETERSBURG, Nov. 24. /Spets.korr. ITAR-TASS March Ageeva. Aivazovsky's painting "Calm" and the works of the Faberge workshop will be the top lots of the first auction of Russian auction house, established under the auspices of the Savings Bank of Russia. Bidding will take place in St. Petersburg on December 9, but as of today in the Russian Museum opens pre-auction exhibition where you can see all the items that will soon take their seats in private collections. continued article
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In our country, clever does not cost anything to spoil everything. If this auction does not examine the experiences of other auctions and then make a conclusion that we have nothing to sell or no one to buy. I said that the gallery could not hold the auction, but if the auction will carry them as a gallery it is also impossible. The auction takes a large number of lots and availability. We shall see.

[QUOTE="Pavel; 1405051]can not hold an auction[/QUOTE]

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And here is the clever :)

Cyril Syzransky, looked like catalog of the auction, so it became even ashamed of them.

Weak, somehow!
No match for Muscovites!

Moscow auctions is a separate issue, but if I compare the auction with the recently conducted an auction of "Russian Seasons," is immediately noticeable that the difference in the selection of lots and the approach to the auction, quite the opposite.
"Russian auction house" immediately presented himself Petrograd Gelos with the wording that does not bear any responsibility after the sale of the lot. You buy what you see and nothing to complain after buying a frank falshaka. Which position, and a selection. And weak, and sometimes dubious.

All the matter in the selection of lots. Someone thinks that is good and impose their views. This causes irritation. The public has a right to herself to choose? Auction business does not pick up the lots and to sell, offer for sale. Auction, in principle, is the premises and administration, and everything else, it provides the Commissioner-winners or sellers, and all. For this auction has%with each lot. There have been lots previously sold for record prices and all. Auctioneers may sell or her collection. The origin of things must be traced. Exhibit their collections can and galleries. That's it.

Where the state - there is rather lean:

Principle Caveat Empton hold auctions all over the world.

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All you started ...

Reserve a seat, sit comfortably! :D

But the price - be healthy! Europe is "resting" ... ;)

Prices for "Russian Seasons" were quite adequate, and many lots have gone from excess of estimate by several times, indicating that the struggle for the lots. I participated in the bidding on the picture Zaretsky, so she left with excess of the estimate is four times! Well, for most Russian auctions now dominate sales at the lower estimate, as in a store at a fixed price.
Prices at the auction by the Russian Auction House at some lots just unreal!

SergeiSK, This is because the Lebedev-professional, and it is unclear who is doing it.

And in the eyes of the only numbers with lots of zeros.

In fact, prices should not ustanavlivatsya auction and the auction as a result of sales.
:)

Not clear title of the painting: Lot 20 Alexander Benois CI STETTO
(1896-1979) «Asiatic Lilies» . 1949.
Its author came up with? The question arises - why? The painting shows a flowering cactus epifillum hybrid, which can be with white flowers, as in this photo
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This picture is carried on the cover of the catalog. Does anybody not even a question that is drawn, and why this name?

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I was also very interested in what kind of place depicted in the painting by Aivazovsky: Lot 12 Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900). "Calm." 1887
Can predpolazhit that this Bay of Naples, view of the island of Ischia and Mezensky cape, but not 100%sure. In Aivazovsky is a picture of a Ischia, where the island is visible in the distance. It is possible that this picture is from the same cycle.

I was surprised to read in the directory:
Oleg Manyukov - Soviet painter
and schedule. Ideologue and one of the pioneers
Movement Nonconformist Art
in Leningrad. "

In principle, I have nothing against the artist (just do not know it), but his name is not even mentioned in the dictionary "Artists of the Leningrad underground" (St. Petersburg, 2007), but here - "the ideology, the ancestor."
Apparently it's some other non-conformism, somewhere on Mars. :)