Sotheby's sold Russian art £ 20 million

The success at Christie's Russian week on we have unsubscribed, now it is time to sum up Sotheby's, which turned out to be the undisputed leader this year. Sotheby's total revenue exceeded 20 million pounds - a quarter higher than competing platforms. The main sensation of yesterday was the sale of Andrei Tarkovsky archive of £ 1 497 million. He bought the government of the Ivanovo region, one of the poorest provinces of Russia to transfer to the house-museum director in town Yuryevets. "We are shocked by the amount for which sold archive - admitted head of books and manuscripts Sotheby's Steven Rowe. - This is a historic deal for the history of cinema. Trades were long and fierce, and it shows the historical value that represents the archive ". Archive auctioned Olga Sokurov's film critic and student of Tarkovsky. Estimate Lot was 80-100 thousand. Pounds. One of the contenders for the collection of documents of the great Russian director was the Dane Lars von Trier, but he could not resist the price of the race. The first "millionaire» Sotheby's this season was the early work of Valentin Serov "Portrait of Praskovya Anatolevny Mammoth" (1887). In assessing the 300-500 thousand. Pounds of work left for 1, 2 million to one of the three fiercely fought for the right to possession of it customers from the CIS. Another surprise was a pencil drawing of Yuri Annenkov's "Portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold," who went to 35 times more expensive than the estimate of £ 1 05 million. Four more work just short of the coveted seven-digit figures: paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin "Transporting the wounded» (£ 937 thousand. ), Lado Gudiashvili "The black creek» (£ 937 thousand.), Ivan Shishkin, "Pine Forest» (£ 881 thousand.), by Ivan Aivazovsky "Galata Tower in the moonlight» (£ 825 thousand). New records established Martiros Saryan ( Landscape "The Poet. On the slopes of Aragats» - £ 623, 7 thousand.), Sergei Sudeikin ("Carnival» - £ 601, 3 thous.), Alexander Samohvalov ("Workers of A. Fedorov and Alexander Yegorov» - £ 361, 3 thous.) and Dmitry Nalbandian ("Daisies» - £ 175, 3 thousand.) In the decorative arts the attention of bidders attracted a unique decorative pattern Faberge "cornflowers and a stalk of oats" (around 1910), made of rock crystal and silver gilt and enamel, decorated with diamonds. Miniature "Cornflowers" went for 433 thousand. Estimé 180-250 thousand. Cigarette master Karl Blank, decorated with enamel and diamonds, with Estima 40-60 thousand. Was sold for a record 253 thousand. Private buyers from the United States attracted provenance - the cigarette case Empress Alexandra Feodorovna presented her husband, Nicholas II, a month after the wedding.