Maastricht 2011
 

Hello from Maastricht , where will tomorrow 's biggest art fair of the year. Today was a so-called " preview " , preview , which people on the street is not allowed - by invitation only fair participants. I ride here the last ten years , but one second-hand market has never happened before . As wrote the Ascension : " a cluster of people was only in the movie Bondarchuk's War and Peace . " Indeed , the impression that all rushed to the super - sale.
Very beautiful design event : the walls are covered with scarlet carnations , and walkways - pink tulips ( pictures will come later ) .
Today, only managed to see the section "modern art", the first impression : all rushed to invest in art , for example , a small Fera 80 and 75 thousand euros , a small gouache paintings of Miro - 290000 , so-so de Stael - 1600000 , pencil Modigliani Caryatid - 1200000 , baby - gouache paintings of Chagall - 280000 , watercolors Delaunay - already 55000 , pencil Lempicka size of a pack of cigarettes - 14000 , and a little butter - 325000 , good Lansky - 195,000 , and so on , will continue tomorrow .

The success of this fair measures the private jets :)

You can ask you to look at the price of Hackney?

You know , for many years that I have come here , fair disappoint . Very few new things , there is little masterpieces , what was known Maaastriht . I can point out different Cranach the Elder ( sold about 3 million ), two quite good Bosch (350 and 250 thousand , it seems very expensive , but have not yet delved into the essence of what was the restoration ), there are very, very good for the wretched Renoir 5 5 million and outstanding Chagall in 1937 , which the Koreans sell for 6 million euros . All you have nothing more to allocate .
In general , a trend : good things are washed away from the market , replaced by modern art . Oh , and some price targets : meditation von Jawlensky - 195 000 (!!!), photos nobody Rudolph Koppittsa at two stands were sold for 145,000 , 345,000 Basquiat graphics , pencil by Matisse 145000 , Picasso , 69 years from 2 to 4 million Miro 37h30 - 1000000 , Botero -Art 550,000 Oil - 600 - 900 . In general , first impressions: the quality of things smaller and smaller, respectively, prices for them all the more , the contemporary art coming , but was unsuccessful , the percentage of its sales compared with antiques is very small.
Fross, Hockney met so far only one - the lithograph is 7500 euro .

Thank you.
A Nolde watercolors can be asked to learn, they are also there for sure?
And whose stands liked any galleries?
Someone new has appeared?

Nolde was, as always with Thomas, the price I did not ask, do not want to shine :)
In another gallery, too, were 2 Nolde watercolors, very beautiful blue landscape of 500000 (I do not remember what it seems, the euro), and flowers - not the best - over 240,000.

Generally I agree with the distinguished ytsuken'om, aesthetic impact was very, very little. I have to mention a remarkable portrait of a young man Clouet, very beautiful Bonnard, Vuillard wonderful, not very expensive (from memory 240,000), luxury Khalsa (14000000), Munch's good (I think 1.8 million), Makkah, and Feininger.
Two de Stael, already present in the last year - and last year's price (it deserves a separate upominnaniya, because most are not sold in the last year of work in some miraculous way the price has risen) - White flowers over 1.8 million and 2.2 million for the landscape.
Most liked the booth with a selection of medieval manuscripts, most of Book of Hours, French, Flemish and German, the incredible beauty and sophistication. I will try to scan a directory (but it's pretty meager) and hang out at least a few images.
I think that the more I go to Maastricht will not.

Putting a few plays that are scanned from the catalog and brochures from the galleries , with works manuscripts .
Unfortunately , the catalog is almost no work that I liked most :(

1. de Stael , Flowers ( I posted it in the story about the artist )
2. Hendrik Berkman , Portrait of a Boy ( da-da! ) with the Dog , 1667
3. 4 miniature XIX-XV centuries . with lambs , dogs and wonderful zapelenatym baby - Jesus
4. Especially for Isis - "Beautiful Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Lancelot and Queen Ginevra , such a blue

Today, talking to an eyewitness . And what experiences he shared :
1 . Antiquarian smaller, more modern , and contemporary become involved in the same gallery . The reason - difitsit antiques .
2 . People had a lot on the first day and not the next .
3 . Prices twice last year (he of antiques ) . For example Nolde watercolors , (I'm looking all sales in 2010 to 150 tons $ )
Maastricht were to 280 m. Euros and more .

Generally erstwhile arrogance in relation to contemporary art recalls the pride of the captains of the real economy in relation to the Internet in early 1990 . Now in force include generation of brokers , under the new flavors will have to adjust the sentence .

I think that there is no shortage of antiques there, but first-class works by the market becomes smaller.

I do not share your analysis: first, if the arrogance and was then most of the world so sovriska, staring with disdain at everything that was not included in this category. This situation is well reflected price: Hals and Cranach - cheaper than some herstovni. Can not say that the situation is completely inverted. But now, in my view, contemporary art, at least for some time has passed the position in favor of the old masters and modernism.
Do not forget that people who bought the actual artists promoted shortly before the crisis, will have to wait and wait for their work reached the price they paid the price - if it ever happens.
Investors clearly prefer to invest in the less speculative and the proven part of the art market.

Somehow I think that Vladimir is not too far from the truth , see what kind of sales at Phillips . And judging by the interviews of this auction , and their collectors belong to those who are aesthetically closer Lofts , hi-tech well , and everything else is appropriate to the interior :) " And judging by the fact that movies , magazines and Other means of influence offered as a standard of " beautiful life " , this is a large-format paintings or black and white photographs. Venture to suggest that if we are talking about 40 year olds , it will likely style of American movies and magazines 80 - 90s , a kind of " fulfillment of desires . "