Sotheby's ended - Evening. Very cool, sold 60 per cent, no one, including oranizatorov, did not expect Sotheby's executives simply shone with happiness, and all present were happy with - live, however. Of surprises: lot 7 Polenov - 900 000 pounds (upper estimeyt - 350 000). I talked to people, no one could answer my question "Why is it Polenov" - yes, great, great job, but Polenova nothing like that has occurred, and yet - the result! Not able to sell Lot 8 - Aivazovsky, enormous size, no serious doubt, the commercial convulsions, and - after all, strange ... Lot 18 - Anisfeld - 400 000 pounds, with an upper estimeyte 250 000; strictly speaking, nothing special, Anisfeld, and Anisfeld, but then, someone stuck at the last cabin in the antiques were two Elysium Anisfeld an order of magnitude better and 4 times cheaper and, like, not bought ... Lot 20 - Roerich, well, here met 2 fighter - at the bottom estimeyte 250 000 and they ran to catch up with the result 950 000 (!!!), Respect. Gobbled dubious lots 29 and 30 (Bukhteev and Gudiashvili), still not all the people still reading this site, but in vain
. Again, the abnormality: two men fight for Lot 32 (Yakovlev, 600 000 pounds), in the absence of the struggle for a much more attractive Lot 33 of the same author (120 000 pounds). Absolutely no nudity Larionov goes for 1.2 million pounds, and, perhaps, the most thing masterpiece auction - Lot 46 Chupyatov (the authorship of a particular conversation) - collects only 210 000 pounds. Analysis time - ahead, but give up, it was the most successful auction in the week. Tomorrow - continued.