the auction house Sotheby `s had the crucial role the first Russian to hold auctions in crisis in 2009. Overall, Sotheby `s not disappoint - not withheld money to the market pre-auction exhibition in Moscow (brought in bulk not only top lots in New York and London-based Russian trading, but the modernists with contemporary artists). Not all the lots themselves justified, nevertheless a grand total of $ 13.8 million (for the painting and decorative arts) at home, experts recognized the "strong".
Last year a similar auction brought $ 36.1 million, however, the directory was thicker, but the crisis has not smelled. Nowadays lots of hundreds of paintings sold two-thirds, the lowest demand to modern art. And most - paintings of Nicholas Roerich and his son Svyatoslav. Nearly all of Roerich older than the one that was made on the cover ( "Saint Mercurius of Smolensk" with estimate: $ 500-700 thousand), sold with a significant, sometimes three to five times, exceeding the preliminary estimates. "New Moon" from the Himalaya series went over the $ 170.5 thousand at Estimé $ 30-40 thousand, "Tibet. Buddha on the road" - for $ 170.5 thousand at Estimé $ 170,5 thousand more severe type of "Islands Monegan "(off the coast of Maine, the same one where he wrote his landscapes Rockwell Kent) sold for $ 434,5 thousand," Secrets of the walls "(from the fairy tale-thriller Maeterlinck's" Princess Mallein ") - for $ 530.5 thousand
Not in any way denying the genius of Roerich, the painter, I want to see that his paintings - quite a special category in the art market. Mystic Himalayan species, silent under the transparent top of the eternal sky, the lonely ruins of Buddhist monasteries, for that matter, and the types of the Russian North, are perceived by the followers of his philosophical doctrines, aspired to join a religion, science and art, as a testament of the Teacher. Collectors of works by Nicholas Roerich will buy them in all circumstances, the adequacy of the price for this, of course, is important but not decisive. This season, the market is practically the first time her son got work Roerich - Sviatoslav (they will sell more and Christie `s). Svetoslav worked in the same tempera technique and at the same Buddhist theme, but did not write landscapes, like his father, and people. His "Three Bodhisattva" 1920 sold for $ 266,5 thousand (at Estimé 60-80 thousand), setting a record for the artist and the remaining fabric is also very grown up in price.
The most expensive lot in the recent auction was a large painting by Ivan Aivazovsky's "Departure of Columbus from Palos ships" - $ 1.59 million, thus, expensive to buy an ancient tradition of the great Russian seascape saved. When Estimé $ 500-700 thousand a $ 1.3 million left diptych Boris Grigoriev's "Cooking pancakes" - perhaps it does not add anything sensational creativity creator of "Faces of Russia", but is interesting from the scene and compositional point of view. At the insistence of the owner of the painting depicted in the New York restaurant, Giovanni artist cut the picture into two parts, but no matter what other concessions did not go - and, despite the objections of a restaurateur, on canvas a number of bottles of Chianti, which is in the preparation of crepes suzette is not involved. "Portrait of a Girl with toys" Boris Grigoriev to estimate: in the $ 700-900 thousand remained unsold.
Russian auctions will continue in New York today - at Christie `s will be on display one other piece of work father and the son of the Roerich paintings kubofuturisticheskie David Burlyuk and a portrait of Paul Chelishchev. The outcome of the auction please read the next issues of "Y".
T. Markin
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