National Bank of Ukraine has frozen bank deposits for six months ..
 

National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) since 13 October forbade banks to issue advance deposits. Resolution of the NBU is intended to keep the country's banking system from collapse after a week Ukrainians withdrew deposits to $ 3 billion. About this newspaper Kommersant - Ukraina ".
http://kommersant.ua/doc.html?docId=1040306
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Dear Ukrainians, investment in art very safe investment ..

What it is to be expected ... It is strange that this did not happen sooner. And America nothing to do with: if the parliament is going on, and the president with the prime minister six months does not talk, then no banking system can not withstand.

Allena, we always help the Ukrainians, our banks work ... For art dealers in Ukraine paradise begins.

Why? Paintings on the cheap will buy?

And by the way the crisis. Last week on a weekday drive past the casino - car sea. Not that park - it is difficult to pass by.

We have the banks themselves could barely squeak ... here it is not to help ...

Constantine must study the history of the antique business, crises, war, death, divorce, coming into the inheritance (to pay the tax that you have to sell), etc. is the foundation of art dealers.
For our case, the notary, the first one ...

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Since Ukraine does not compare ..

Against the background of crisis in the autumn auctions are very sour. Do not sell enough good things. But dealers, who have a flow of working capital from their own sales - virtually none. Therefore it will be well not to dealers and collectors who are not afraid now to buy good things, with the possibility of serious bargaining for a fall.
Until last new year I personally bought the good things often deliberately above the market with the calculation on the continued growth and the uniqueness of a thing. Mistaken a bit in terms of growth. Now so will not do. I would put pressure on price.

Altim, In Russia, a collector and dealer in almost the same thing ..
It is reasonable ..

Look here, gentlemen!
Here are just a small crisis
http://www.vz.ru/economy/2008/10/13/218447.html
And. One major buyer said, simple! What he is now at inflated prices does not buy, but will buy at the time of the full height of the crisis.
When the market will be a lot of offers good products and will play for a fall.

disagree. Collector buys for herself, to enjoy and receive moral and aesthetic pleasure from the works of art, but the dealer is interested only as a rapid-buy-sell work, not much caring for her artistic components.
Collectors, of course, also bought and sold things, but they do so to enhance the artistic and conceptual significance of his collection ...

Art dealer is a man who buys and sells art.

Eugene, let's not pull up words from the contest.
Art dealer buys and sells things to to make a profit and live on it.
Collector buys and sells things only from my own taste and desire to build a good Collection. Questions profit from resale do not stand in his first term, because is not his primary, in contrast to the art dealer's income.

All absolutely true, but I think Yevgeny it was a matter that these two concepts are often combined "two in one", ie have a primary income from the sale /purchase and collect /nurture his collection, which is not parted for any money, except in the case of Kotormo you said above.

Everything has its price ... The joy of ownership - alas, not forever, and eventually dies down: (

In my opinion, given the fact that many buyers of art buy things as investment assets, that is, a priori, imply the sale, the boundaries of the concept of "collecting" blurred. So I understand people by dealers who make a turnover of others things. People who purchase the items and keep them or work with them to increase prices (make promotional exhibitions, publish somewhere and so, even if not themselves, but with the help of prof. Participants in those segments of the market) is likely to be known art investors. Clean collectors, for whom things have a self-worth, I have never met.
So clear and precise.
PS: I have a dozen or two things in the collection, which I would like you never want to sell. Asked myself the simple question now - as if surprised the price? Answer - selling. :-)