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At Christie's Russian sales could not find a buyer for the most expensive lots
Week of Russian auctions in New York concluded the trading house Christie's. Total trading volume was $ 5 million have been sold Faberge and Ernst Unknown, the founder of Russian Futurism Burliuk. But while the most expensive lots and have not found a buyer.
In the traditional spring auction was billed about 250 objects, including a collection of cloisonne and about 60 of the workshop of Carl Faberge. As a result, one of the most expensive lots was painting "The visit of Lama" Alexander Yakovlev. The canvas was written in Paris in 1933, his estimeyt - 150-250 thousand dollars As a result, an unknown collector bought it for 170.5 thousand dollars the same amount paid for desktop clock of gilded silver with a decorative finish, created by Faberge workshop in about 1890.
Sold as seven out of eight auctioned works Burliuk, in particular painting, "Japan. Yui "and" The Washington market. Tribeca (respectively 56.5 per thousand and 52.5 thousand dollars). Buyers have found and Ernst's paintings of the Unknown "The Giants are becoming more" (43 thousand dollars), "The Centaur and the Cross" (16 thousand dollars) and the sculpture "The New Statue of Liberty" (20 thousand dollars).
But while the most expensive lots have not found a buyer. The huge porcelain vase with portraits of the Prussian King Frederic William III (father of the Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas I) and Frederick William IV brushes court painter Franz Krüger was established in 1843 at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg. Christie's estimated the lot at 700-900 thousand dollars his way, no one bought. As well as painting "The Return of a walk" Konstantin Makovsky, also one of the top lots of trades. Portrait of a young lady with a bouquet of roses painted by famous Russian romance was evaluated by experts of the Firm in the 400-600 thousand dollars has not been sold as a silver dish, a gift of noblemen's Smolensk Emperor Alexander III and his wife Maria Feodorovna, on the occasion of the coronation of the emperor. The dish was made by Paul Sazikov, one of the regular suppliers of the Royal Court. This dish - a historical relic, it was found on the antiques market in France in 1930.
Trading House declined to comment on these failures. A total volume of trading amounted to almost $ 5 million
MARIA Lytvyn
04/30/2010
http://weekend.rbcdaily.ru/2010/04/30/style/475756