??????? （倫敦訊）索斯比宣布今晚俄國藝術(shù)拍賣全面超過預期的估價￡159～235萬英鎊，達5,731,100英鎊（$53,137,295美元）。一幅非常引人矚目的三聯(lián)作品被拍賣，俄國著名風景畫家亞利山大?基塞里沃（Konstantin Makovsky，1838-1911）的沙俄特權(quán)貴族每日生活由一位電話購買者以2,036,500英鎊買走，超過預先估價700,000英鎊，創(chuàng)造了該畫家拍賣的最高紀錄。

??????? 本次俄國藝術(shù)品拍賣有12個畫家的記錄被打破，有18件作品拍賣價超過了100萬美元，幾乎70％的作品拍賣超過了預先估價。最高拍賣的作品是由 Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova 所作的一幅先鋒派作品《野風信子》，為3,044,500英鎊。

Sotheby's First Ever Evening Sale of Russian Art Realizes $53.1 Million

LONDON.- Sotheby’s inaugural Evening Sale of Russian Art tonight exceeded all expectations and realised a total of ￡25,731,100 ($53,137,295), ￡2 million more than the pre-sale high estimate (pre-sale estimate ￡15.9-23.5). The auction got off to a remarkable start with the first three lots – triptych icons – all selling for well above their pre-sale high estimates, and the fourth lot offered, Konstantin Makovsky’s From the Everyday Life of the Boyars, set a new record for the artist at auction when it sold to a telephone bidder for ￡2,036,500, ￡1.3 million over its high estimate of ￡700,000. The sale also saw 12 new records achieved for Russian artists, 18 works sell for over $1 million and almost 70% of works sell in excess of their high estimates. The top selling work was the avant-garde masterpiece Bluebells by Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, from the Schreiber Family Collection, which commanded ￡3,044,500.