Well, if you trade in the auction rules are not arguments in favor of such expressions as "attributed as" something and believe that this will be true at 101%!
I'm not against it. Your you will stay.
While following these rules, the auction house as if wary of the buyer, they say is not all smooth, beware, you can plunge.
I am sure that in such houses as Sotebis and Christie's work is not the latest experts. And if they have no expert on this work, in this case is drawn from the expert who has a weight in the world of art.
And about 40 years ago ...
Sorry, but this is not an argument.
Demand creates supply. Think at the time of Soutine and began to gain popularity among buyers.
Sorry, but who is this Mr. Kovtun? What is the Institute of expertise it represents?

Kovtun - a brilliant connoisseur of Russian painting of the first half of the 20 century., Worked in the SRM.

Evgeny Kovtun (29 February 1928 - January 5, 1996) - art critic, famous scientist, a specialist in Russian avant-garde. In 1953 he graduated from the history department of the Leningrad State University with a degree in art history, in 1956, graduated from graduate school faculty of art history. From 1956 until the end of his life he worked in the State Russian Museum. By a series of exhibitions and catalogs devoted to the Russian avant-garde, is also the author of numerous research articles and books published in Russia and other countries. Books:

* Andrew Ushin. - Artist of the RSFSR, 1967.
* Vanguard, stopped on the run. - Aurora, 1989.
* "Russian pictorial sign and the avant-garde artists" (in collaboration with AV Povelihinoy). - Aurora, 1991.
* "Russian Avant-Garde 1920-1930-ies." - Aurora, 1996.
* Mikhail Larionov. 1881-1964.. " - Aurora, 1998.
* "Avant Garde Art in Russia (Schools and Movements)". - Parkstone Press Ltd, 1998.

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I'd add that as an expert on Russian avant-garde, he had a ravnyh.I why his conclusion (if it really gave Kovtun), deserves serious attention

For the attribution of such a complex thing, like this portrait of discussion, we must have a serious basis for comparison and, preferably, access to the archive of the artist.

Now you have with us.

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Why April 1st? Have not you heard, the government redistributes the stabilization fund. Invest in art, even a very noble cause.

Svetlana, propose that:
K. Malevich, Mayakovsky's poems - lithograph "Englishmen at Heligoland ..." 1917, 55.2 * 36.9
see the Russian Avant-Garde from the Collection of Rossiyskogo state-th archive literature and art
RGALI ICFED, M. 2004, p. 59
$ 5000

In Moscow there is EVERYTHING!
 

Vain laugh, colleagues! Remember, here recently Kandinsky per 1 million offered. Ostensibly 1-e hand, and in the personal data was a considerable age of Validating: 21 years: eek:
And to me before the new year, quite seriously, even by Raphael for 3 million

And Svetlane Malevich offer similar characters, do not worry;)
In our Mother Moscow you can find all, why go to France:)