An attempt to answer the common question prandial :
Why some pictures are fabulous money ? " Trade air" or all of the case ?

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Most expensive actual artists for the year : http://artinvestment.ru/invest/analytics/20121108_10_top . html .... Name of the last non-Chinese artist in the list is not one of the well-known . Yet . Meet Mark Grotyan (Mark Grotjahn, 1968). His two-meter abstract " Yellow Butterfly ", which was on display at the Gagosian Gallery , went to New York for 1.38 million euros, excluding commissions and fees. Strange? Not at all. Geometric "butterfly " - one of the key themes in the artist. The right...

Ostozhenka 16 - the first solo exhibition in Moscow, Marc Quinn - YBA, a generation with Tracey Emin and Damian Hirst . Along with painting and sculpture , he has brought to Moscow a frozen version of the famous self-portrait of the head . They are five . First (Self) was made from frozen blood of the artist. Five liters, which he collected annually. This is the Saatchi Gallery in London . And in Moscow, brought a new version , made of frozen wine. Also partly autobiographical, recalls Quinn struggle...