Artwork from the collection Brochet

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A bored rainy autumn day early, hungry for my 90th I received an invitation from Michel Brochet.

The owner was polite, gave seemed to me extraordinarily tasty strudel, fine wine, the quality of which is clearly beyond the scope of my credit.

Then an elegant laptop, he presented a rather intricate web site of its collection. For me, who had no computer at that time, it was the first tangible illustration of the concept of the Internet. A site dedicated to his recently deceased wife, Lily, was created by Canadian husband, a specialist in this field. Michelle opened the notebook and showed how many visits his virtual collection on days it was the last month. In addition, he reported that daily receives proposals for the sale of paintings from the collection, although the main page posted an ad that no one piece is not for sale.

Then followed a demonstration with a detailed story about each piece of that part of the collection, which was located in his vast apartment. Retentive memory of the former inventor has kept a lot of details about the acquisition of each item.

- This is a nude Lily bought from the artist in New York. Our friend gave me the address of the "Russian prodigy. With some difficulty, having found in the slums of his apartment, kept knocking on the door. It was four o'clock. After some time on the threshold elderly, but strong man and ... completely naked! Moreover, it is not troubled by the presence of my wife. Upon learning the purpose of our visit, he waved his arms and started shouting that he had nothing, nothing for sale. Still, he let us into his very close, foul-smelling room and invited here this picture, adding: "The next time warn me beforehand, I'll cook something else." We quickly paid, and more have never seen it. Therefore, in the collection of only one painting by Vasily Sitnikov.

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One look at the gray-Syze armless creature edged tasteless aluminum frame, it was enough to understand that in this picture Vasily Yakovlevich belongs, probably only the canvas and maybe blue. Confirmation of this I saw on the back of the painting. As a stretcher hand Vasily Yakovlevich was written that this opus lesson of some pupils.

- Michelle, sorry, but I must disappoint you. This is not the product of nude Vasily Sitnikov, and an academic exercise one of his pupils. That's a handwritten testimonial about this on a stretcher.

- Oh yeah? I did not pay attention to this inscription. Well, not terrible, not terrible - he muttered. We paid a little money, very small.

Paying little money, or rather little, very little needy artists for works of art was the principle, the implicit motto of this collection.

One day he asked me to make his portraits in the background of the collection and photos of Lily. Photographed printed a few pictures, brought.

 - Not bad, not bad. This one, with Lily - even very well. How much do I owe you?
 - 500 francs.
 - Well, what are you saying! - He exclaimed with indignant reproach. What are the real price.
- Michelle, I could not sell their work cheaper, but if you do it is expensive, then I give you these pictures.

Heavy eternally drooping eyelids at his motionless face joyfully lifted.

- Another piece of shtryudelya? And wine, of course!

Slightly trembling old man's hand, he poured himself a glass of heavy antique crystal superb Burgundy Harvest 1986 to 1500 francs, the price per bottle.


A naked with limb defects in a home exhibition of his collection in the follow-up visits were no longer.

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The site McDougal information about the exhibition of this collection, but in the auction catalog is not all work. Others will be sold later, or they have already been sold, or?
And the site has since been changed? http://www.brochetain.ca/Brochetain/permanent.html

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The site McDougal information about the exhibition of this collection, but in the auction catalog is not all work. Others will be sold later, or they have already been sold, or?
And the site has since been changed? http://www.brochetain.ca/Brochetain/permanent.html

Kocheyshvili there have Brochet good.
A Roginskii at MacDougall, e, I understood from his collections:
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