Russian week in London. November - 2011.
 

Hello from London. Just looked at Christie . Some remarks to potential buyers. Withdrawn from sale of watches ( 202) and the main auction shame Lentulov (Lot 73). Careful studies have shown that in the miniature Tolstoy ( 8) shows the gooseberry, currant and not , as stated in the catalog. Pokhitonov (19) affixed to the cardboard , not wood , but 20 is just a tree, rather than on paper. Dobuzhinsky 55 painted on cardboard, rather than on paper , as stated in the catalog. Benoit 56 in Madrid, was not present , but , like, was exhibited in 1998 in Lugano. Grishchenko 117 is on board, and not on the board, and pictures 130 and 131 are mixed up . Actually , quite a few curious , some preliminary estimates have changed 180 degrees. Now I go to the reception Christie will be that interesting - let you know .

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Interest was not enough : fed little , not watered so . Although I never participate in the free distribution of kharcho , especially in the temple of culture, but in the subject line : people actively grieve at a low level of degree- calorie , they say in the past been overwhelmingly better. And people were - the darkness , and just amazed at the number of new faces . I ride here a long time, the whole core of fighters I know , but here - hundreds of new faces , mostly do not speak in our language, and more investment , not about art , well, basurmane that take ... And even better reviewed Vereshchagin : grandiose work , a masterpiece , too bad it will not appear in the Tretyakov Gallery , where he was the right place - the Tretyakov now little ...

I'm sorry, of course .... for the art - more or less clear, but there hoteloch clarify - there is no longer just appreciate " our brother "? What was given to drink , a snack ? If this is the case , then ... (three variants come immediately to mind, but I would like to clarify .) Vodka is poured chtol ? :(>

So , well, that's had studies Bonems and Sotheby's. By Sotheby's nothing much to say : a lot of things , but nothing much to buy , it's very average quality , a masterpiece has found only one that I will not say exactly , because to try to buy it. :)>
At Bonemse found differences from catalog data . Withdrawn from sale of Sommer (Lot 40) and Burliuk ( 95) , while for some reason left a terrible Lentulov made ​​not otherwise than in opium kurilne .
Levitan ( 8) is written on the board , not cardboard. Aivazovsky ( 10) confirmed a certain Mr Caffiero ( do not know who it is because they do not buy this artist ).
Korovin (63 ) is made with oil rather than gouache. Oh , and the icon (295) has a size of 25.2 x 20 , 7, and not, as stated in the catalog.
Mihalich answer later, and now run away to the reception Sotheby's.

Just lot number 95 can be left for originality. Most likely it was the picture of Nicholas Burliuk. And here is what to remove from Burliuks - so it's lots 106 and 107. Frankly impudent forgery. Lot 106 is a compilation of previously sold works Burliuk "Live Lobsters at Joe's" from the auction Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers in May 2006. Below is a photo for comparison.

Photo 1 Bonemsa (Lot 106)
Photo 2 - original with Shennonsa
Photo 3 - fake unfinished poddelschika

Yesterday was unable to continue because he returned too late. After a mediocre champagne and martinis, which regaled at Christie's , Sotheby's has been on a bread- and never vinoobilno . Such a variety of food and drinks were not on my mind , it seems , tried to convince us that the crisis was just behind, and , therefore, - forward. And, indeed, in conversations , I learned that for those things that I have planned , will fight several people .
At the end of the reception most of the party moved to the new-fashioned restaurant Novikov for washing the newly published book, Joe Vickery of contemporary Russian art. By the way, Joe said that she liked how this book written on this site ARTinvestment.ru and she was sent this book as a gift site.

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End of the first auction , snapped up quite quickly to 9 million -plus . From experience : like a battle of two phones for lithography Orlovsky ( Lot 7 , with a half thousand pounds caught starting to 48,000 ). Very nice Pohitonova (21) caught up with 50,000 to 340,000, Yakunchikova that five years ago, nobody wanted to take over 150 000 now grabbed over 580 000 . But for the stunning Vereshchagin gave only a half million , though in my opinion it can be just any money , but it had to find two men who have a common taste and palaces, as in the smaller room of 12 square meters of Vereshchagin's simply not enter .
And most of all laugh disgusting attempt to sell the auction for 240 000 Kabakov (Incidentally, it is unclear from the catalog : Lot 145 is a classic landscape painting without a frame is to the artist on the floor, leaning against her two-piece kartonv , and at the top, as on the fence , hang heavily worn panties. That's it.

I'm sitting in the hall Sotheby's, what strange things for sale!
Just bought a famous artist Timm for 90 thousand pounds!!

And here it is, this thing Kabakov - part of the installation of " mad, stripped and ran naked ":

A pomoymu quite decent thing , Orientalism , now goes to the mountain .. especially in England.

With regard to foreign persons , I have quite a different impression - that Christie's , Sotheby's that , yesterday was one of our few exceptions .

Better let's discuss Yakunchikova for 700 000 pounds of wood .. This is where the surprise is . I do think this thing was at an antique showroom in Moscow last year?

Here's and Sotheby's was ... The first part of either shaky or rolls, which, in fact , it was clear at once , on the basis of a gray level of the offered goods. But the second part - the schedule of Alexandre Benois - was just broken, with considerable excess of estimate were purchased Lot 124 from 127, after which the people understood what was happening, demanded that the remaining unsold 3 lots back again in the sale, and they were instantly bought ! Thus, the auction was sold at 100%, and Lord Poltimore spent the auction , were given white gloves - it turns out , there is a tradition . Russian bid for this has never happened before , as they say in the last 30 years this has happened only once , such as at night trading on the Impressionists.

About how.
And in a show in Moscow absolutely nothing in sight.
Why such a fuss?