Sotheby's Russian and Photo

[Tamila]

Today was the auction photos "Changing Focus - A Collection of Russian and Eastern European Contemporary Photography". Conflicting results: sold only 34 of the 155 photos. Not a very good indicator, although for the first auction of contemporary Russian photography, probably a good idea.

Unfortunately, not bought any photos of Igor Mukhin, although work has been just great. We wish him good luck in the future!

In the first place - Boris Mikhailov, lot 831. A series of 23 photographs bought for 46,000 pounds, with the premium auction - is 57500. Bought almost all the work Mikhailova, so that it can be called the star of these trades:
824 - 13,750
825 - 20,000
826 - 6,875
828 - 10,000
829 - 3,500
831 - 57,500

In second place - Komar and Melamid. Photos taken by a monkey, bought for 50,000 pounds (at a premium).

Gone 3 photos by Sergey Borisov (1500-2000 pounds)
Sutkus and other members of the Lithuanian school (7.4 million pounds)
Photo from the boy at the piano (lot 818) sold for Mokhoreva 5 thousand pounds.
Bought two photos Chezhina: Lot 864 - 12500 and 871 - 5000.

I watched the auction online at Sotheby's, and for two photos of Boris Smelova was a long struggle: for Lot 892 photos from the St. Petersburg series was 10 steps from the start in 5000 to 8 and a half, at a premium price of 10,625 pounds. And Lot 893 of 6,875 pounds. Surprisingly, it did not buy his famous still life - Lot 891.

Photos Slusarev apparently found no interest among buyers. Just bought a series of 3 pictures - Lot 904 of 3,000 pounds.

A series of photos Kupriyanov with portraits of women, and the signatures of the poems of Pushkin, too, for some reason did not find a buyer. But the rest of his works were selling like hot cakes: 911 for the lot struggled for a long time, until the upper estimate of 12,000.
911 - 15,000
912 - 10,000
913 -11.875

Another bought almost all photos Titarenko with blurred figures against the background of the city streets, shot at slow shutter speeds, from 6 to 11,000.

[Aka Petr]

Originally Posted by Tamila

Unfortunately, not bought any photos of Igor Mukhin , although the work was just great

gladly would have bought , but at a reasonable price < ! - ~ 1 ~ -> works very well , but is not clear why they were priced at 2-3 times more expensive than the same Smelov

It would also be required to buy it. And with Smelov wonderful happened. and the individual artists in Peter asked about the same for post-mortem fingerprints <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

[Tamila]

Originally Posted by Aka Petr

gladly would have bought, but at a reasonable price

 
That would be something to think about the organizers.