Christie's sale of Russian Paintings & Works of Art today totaled $19,265,160 Christie's sale of Russian Paintings & Works of Art today totaled $19,265,160, surpassing its pre-sale high estimate and exceeding the results achieved in New York at this time last year
News-Antique.com - Apr 18,2007 - Christie's sale of Russian Paintings & Works of Art today totaled $19,265,160, surpassing its pre-sale high estimate and exceeding the results achieved in New York at this time last year in our inaugural dedicated sale of Russian Pictures & Works of Art by $10 million.
Leading the day was Vasilii Vereshchagin’s Solomon’s Wall which realized an extraordinary $3,624,000 and set a record for the artist at auction. The selection of Fabergé drew strong prices, with the rare carved carnelian figure of a gnome mounted as scent flask selling for $1,384,000 – $1 million over its pre-sale high estimate.
Sold: $19,265,160 £9,632,580 €14,165,559 Sale No: 1821
Lots Sold: 268 Lots Offered: 331 Sold by Lot: 81% Sold by $: 94%
$: £2.00 $: €1.36
Lot Price Estimate Buyer
76 $3,624,000 £1,812,000 €2,664,706 $3,000,000-$5,000,000 Russian Private Vasilii Vasilievich Vereshchagin (1842-1904), Solomon’s Wall, oil on canvas
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
336 $1,384,000 £692,000 €1,017,647 $250,000-$350,000 Anonymous
A rare and highly important carved carnelian figure of a gnome mounted as scent flask, marked Fabergé
333 $992,000 £496,000 €729,412 $150,000-$250,000 Russian Private
An important jeweled gold and guilloche enamel covered box, marked Fabergé
313 $456,000 £228,000 €620,160 $150,000-$250,000 Anonymous
A rare silver-gilt mounted bowenite table clock, marked Fabergé, circa 1900
83 $420,000 £210,000 €308,824 $300,000-$400,000 American Trade
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (1874-1947), Grand Canyon, Arizona, tempera on canvas
35 $384,000 £192,000 €282,353 $300,000-$400,000 Russian Private
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (1874-1947), Gilgit Road, oil on canvas
62 $384,000 £192,000 €282,353 $170,000-$250,000 Russian Private
Boris Dmitrievich Grigor’ev (1886-1939), Une Francaise, Portrait of Mrs. Adeline Harold Pynchon, oil on canvas
57 $384,000 £192,000 €282,353 $100,000-$150,000 Anonymous
Boris Izrailevich Anisfel’d (1878-1973), Flowers, oil on canvas
86 $360,000 £180,000 €264,706 $250,000-$350,000 UK Trade
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (1874-1947), Sanctuaries and Citadels, tempera on canvas laid on board
70 $360,000 £180,000 €264,706 $300,000-$500,000 UK Trade
Boris Dmitrievich Grigor’ev (1886-1939), Russian Peasant Woman, gouache and watercolor on board
“We are thrilled with the results of today’s sale of Russian Paintings & Works of Arti, which at $19.2 million surpasses the pre-sale high estimate and exceeds the results achieved in New York last April in our inaugural dedicated sale of Russian Pictures & Works of Art by $10 million. Leading the day was Vasilii Vereshchagin’s Solomon’s Wall which realized an extraordinary $3,624,000 and set a record for the artist at auction. From the very start we have been extremely pleased by the incredible interest this work has generated both privately and publicly during its international tour to Tel Aviv and Moscow, particularly the amazing response surrounding its exhibition at The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in March, an exhibition that marked the first time the work had been on view in Russia. We are also extremely pleased with the results achieved by the selection of Fabergé – especially the rare carved carnelian figure of a gnome mounted as scent flask which realized $1,384,000 – $1 million over its pre-sale high estimate.
The results of today’s sale continue the momentum generated by our extremely successful
