Just before the New Year, December 23rd and 24th, the SOVCOM Art Gallery held two auctions at once within the framework of 50th Anniversary to Soviet Art trade fair in the Central House of Artist.
The first auction mostly offered top artists, the collection had been gathered during several months and included works of 12 galleries - the Sovcom colleagues. 122 out of 157 lots were sold. S. Chuykov’s “Daughter of Soviet Kyrghizia” (48 x 32, 1940-ies) taking a quintuple price jump and totaling US$ 85.000 against its US$ 16.000-20.000 estimate became not the most expensive, but the most successful and almost sensational sale. Next day the auction was held without reserved prices for cost offered by the visitors.
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