- Invest in paintings by contemporary authors - a very big risk. Should ideally understand the painting or use the services of high level experts. Finding your way around, who is who, is problematic. On the other hand, if there is a sense - you can take a chance. Prices for works by contemporary composers can increase several times.

Is it possible to reduce the risks of buying only the authors represented in the galleries?

- Of course not. Just as the roll out voiceless singer, you can move any artist - an exhibition, to arrange a wide PR-campaign. As a result, it will appear in the galleries. But time will put everything into place.

How do we determine the real value of art and prospects of their author?

- By investing in art should be approached as seriously as any business. Art - the centuries-old business with its rules, is not always fair. And to penetrate it is not so simple. Should be well acquainted with the market: to his analysis in terms of expert services, shops, find out who you can trust and who - no. That is, casting a net as widely as possible. Seek advice from the gallery with a good reputation. Famous gallery owners carefully monitor prospective authors and can give good advice.

What are the criteria to select the gallery-adviser?

- How long does it work and how often organizes exhibitions. A good gallery should have at least five years and have at least one share in two months.

How to cheat novice collectors?

- Sometimes buying the entire collection of the artist and began his PR artificially screwing prices. Shoved a copy instead of the original. Buy this job, make a copy of it, and expert opinion. If a person is illiterate in such matters, then he will take a photocopy of the full opinion of the expert.

How much are copies of paintings?

- Advanced copy costs from $ 100 to $ 1 thousand They create art students, restorers and artists.

artists repaint their pictures?

- No, each other. The notion of the author's copy does not exist, there is the concept of copyright repetition. As the creator nor the wish to reiterate my picture - one in one does not work, it contradicts the very essence of the artist. Unless, of course, he is a true artist, not the copyist. Formerly there were professional copyists who knew the market situation, who and how to copy. Aivazovsky, Shishkin, Levitan and copied during his lifetime. Now, 100 years later, those copies can cost quite expensive. For example, a copy of Ivan Shishkin paintings in the performance Tolkachevskogo - $ 8-10 thousand

What was the amount it makes sense to start investing in the picture?

- You can start and from $ 100.

But for that money can buy except that now with hands on Andriyivsky ...

- Even Andriyivsky can find a good thing.

Yes, but whether it will be good in terms of future income?

- How lucky. For up to $ 2 thousand to buy works by unknown artists 80-90-ies and the authors of recent years. Paintings by famous artists, for example, Leonid Gorobets or Vera Tsvetkova, cost on average $ 5-8 thousand most untwisted wizard, which gave up 70-ies, such as cones or Sergei Nicholas Glushchenko, will cost $ 20-25 thousand work. In this picture Szyszko five years ago you could buy for $ 100-200. You just need to have a good nose.

You call only Ukrainian artists - Russian and foreign in Ukraine are hard to find?

- We have a very bad buy foreign art. The exception is perhaps that the Russian masters, partly because of their high cost. For example, paintings by Aivazovsky and Shishkin sold in Ukraine at $ 500-700 thousand Abroad work of these artists are cheaper. And that's fine. In all countries better take pictures of their authors. Ukrainian authors in international auctions, too, bought mainly our countrymen.

Why is that?

- In human psychology and mentality of the nation. For example, many Japanese people collect paintings of European authors. They faithfully observe their traditions, but they need a flow of something else. Europeans tend to prefer their artists - they are simply more conservative. Slavs more conservative - do not want to make the house something alien, apparently, do not receive energy supply.

at foreign auctions and in the salons of Ukrainian artists still are?

- While very sparingly. However, our collectors have begun to draw the attention of managers of foreign auctions. I recently had talks with representatives of Christie's, who came specially to find out the needs of Ukrainian collectors. This suggests that the Ukrainians had already bought quite a lot. Russians, of course, more. But the money for their market revolves more.

What is the annual turnover of the Ukrainian market?

- I think we can safely say that our market's annual turnover exceeds $ 10 million average annual vytorg Ukrainian auctions (in Ukraine, five of them) - from $ 500 thousand to $ 3.5 million, but to objectively evaluate the market size is impossible. If someone would not name specific figures, the evaluation will be very subjective. For example, if a Ukrainian buys painting at Sotheby's or Christie's, Ukraine loses money or gets? After all, money remains abroad, but the picture is brought into our country, where he will grow in value.

How is the price of the painting?

Everything is built on a concrete fact: for how much this or that painting was sold by a specific author. But all is not so clear cut. Here is an example. At an auction the work of Vladimir Sidoruk was sold for almost $ 100 thousand, on the other - neither one of his paintings are not bought. The question arises: whether the cost of work was defined by this artist?

What factors influence the cost of painting?

- There are very many: the name of the author, the state of the painting, its size, technology implementation, creation time, etc. It is very important so-called degree of certainty. Works a high degree of certainty (paintings in good condition, made in the framework of this genre author whose authenticity is beyond doubt) in private hands is very small. Museums for a long time, all products were adsorbed on the territory of our country. But gradually the well-known works is more due to the large influx of paintings from the West.

In museums you can buy now?

- It is strictly forbidden and virtually impossible, because the sole responsibility for the collection, none of the staff of the museum there. Museums are working more on the Soviet accounting system that will not rush. Agree almost impossible - too big a chain of collective control.

Is it advantageous to the picture, bought in Ukraine, to sell abroad?

- No. The works of Ukrainian artists here are more expensive than abroad. The domestic market became more competitive. Contact the scheme better: you can buy Ukrainian author's and Sotheby's to sell more expensive here.

But Russian and foreign authors abroad to buy unprofitable. Shishkin, for example, the leading auction will cost from $ 1 million, we have - two times cheaper.

Fakes are sold at auctions?

- Auctions make every effort to ensure that tampering did not get to bid. But I think there are also fakes. Art forgery is behind the original half-step: as soon as a promising artist, he began to forge.

How can you distinguish the original from a fake?

- We must turn to the professionals. Examination - a complex, painstaking process. Difficult to prove otherwise. Not yet proven that it is not Shishkin - it Shishkin.

Professionals among experts in Ukraine much?

- Expert - a specialist opinion is trusted by specific people. If you do not trust - it means, not an expert. He can hang round with diplomas and medals, but the expert will not. We have such specialists on painting about ten people.

How much are their services?

- In Ukraine from $ 50 to $ 1 thousand, depending on the complexity of work. $ 1 thousand may cost a complicated examination of the involvement of several specialists, when using X-ray, carried out chemical analysis and so on. Compared with the cost of the works themselves - this is peanuts. In Moscow, the exact same examination will cost from $ 500 to $ 10 thousand

How is the examination?

- First picture is investigated under UV light. It identifies various types of inserts and additions, later intervention. Thus, for example, you can check on the authenticity of the signature.

Microscopic examination showed the signature of the underlying pigment layer. As far as the paint dried and the application time.

The most objective method - X-ray. It features a unique cut-off picture canvas. Splits a picture of the layers of paint. You can track the individual style of the artist and with a sufficient degree of probability to determine the authenticity of the paintings. After forger imitates the outer form. Recreating the internal structure of the letter is extremely difficult.

By the way, your museum figured in several scandals related to counterfeit paintings. Conflict resolved?

- Gayane appealed to the Supreme Court, after a previous trial court denied her the lawsuit. Forensic experts were unable to prove that the pictures were not Tatiana Yablonska. Court, we won.

That is, at the exhibition were exhibited paintings Yablonska?

- Tatiana Nilovna this exhibition is not seen. And she was the only person who could say - it is working or not. I studied painting. Posted by approximately 600 works, and I must confess, without thinking them all do not remember. And especially not recognized, not seeing them.

But the claim was addressed to us - this is steeper than that known to the public gallery.

- We examine this picture. His daughter, Galina Maksimenko, decided that the painting was sold a fake, because the work went to auction for a very low, in her view, the price ($ 4,6 thousand - Prim. Contracts). And, they say, the signature is made in blue ink, which her father never did. But we have raised the catalog of his paintings - for every third job is a blue sign.

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Y. B. Not to myself. There is a certain professional ethics. I would say this is akin to medical secrecy. As a rule, my advice use policies, business leaders, when they want to buy now.
A lot of collectors in Kiev?
V. No less than fifty people. Among them there are people with whom I do not take money for counseling. Most of the clients discharge people into being friends.
What is the examination?
V. In Kiev, prices range from $ 50 to $ 1000 per painting. My oral advice includes research work. He came here recently, a man brought the work allegedly Shishkin. I study it, proved it oleograph. A person paying a minuscule amount saved myself from spending tens of thousands of dollars - do not buy rubbish.
How is the process of examination?
V. The picture was brought to me or ask to go and see, including abroad. I'm taking a compact apparatus and inspecting the work. I have a specific set of tests, which includes research in infrared and ultraviolet rays. I take samples for chemical and radiocarbon analysis. The findings do upon arrival in Kiev, after processing the data in laboratories.
Brought to you by working with major foreign auctions?
V. Yes, it happens. And there are not always purchased paintings are authentic.
A Kiev auction house consulted?
If the auction is scheduled for October, preparation starts now. We already do review work and 40 percent of them are eliminated. I define only the artistic quality assessment by specialists auction. Pricing - not my element, and there is no sense to do it. I think better do so, in what you're competent. Why should I understand? My museum is not engaged in contemporary art.
Why traveled to Basel? What are your impressions?
V. Just wondering was. Went in, saw that for the fair. She left the impression of a large bubble of stainless steel. It's not even the financial pyramid, and the financial sphere. Absolutely the commercial market - market leading galleries in the world. They decide the fate of art. Candy there are made of anything. The main thing is that everything went according to the rules of this business.
Ukraine there is average. We have a strong art, but it does not have to heat, shock, which today is a success. I think collectors would buy paintings of our artists for 150-200 thousand euros. But now Pakistan is represented on the site, where prices range from 20 to 50 thousand.
V. No. We call it normal, and, thank God, he has no national features. Art must be cosmopolitan. Language arts is universal and not dependent on nationality. Worldwide folklore is perceived as funny as decorative gift products, and not as an object of art. Maria Prymachenko and other folk artists are not considered world-class artists. But Savadov, Kadyrov, Mach, Sidorenko, representing Ukraine in Basel, working in a cosmopolitan context.
you are an artist by training, why do not participate in major exhibitions?
V. To be honest, in 1999, I wrote a recent series of papers, and ten years after that did not draw. Display older works somehow illogical. I recently returned to painting, but now only beginning to unwind yourself as an artist. Participate in planning exhibitions. And one of London's auction made a proposal to put my work up for sale. I do not know whether the picture is sold, but the participation in the auction increases and the status of the artist and the value of his work.
Surveying activities bring significant income?
V. Previously income was decent. But even before the financial crisis began to fall in the market for these services. All of a sudden turned out to be intelligent and have themselves become a decision about buying paintings. Napokupali And, of course, anyone.
Why do not you do dealership?
V. I think this is unethical. Trading patterns director of the museum simply can not.

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