Branch of the auction house Phillips de Pury & Company will appear in Russia
 

According to Mercury general manager Alexander Reebok, a subsidiary of the auction house Phillips de Pury & Company will appear in Russia. "We see great potential for development of both the company and the auction segment in general - explains Mr. Reebok .- Auditorium Phillips de Pury is a loyal customer of Mercury". The amount of the transaction and the volume of investments declined to disclose Mr. Reebok, specifying only that the price paid was "exclusive".

"When buying a Phillips de Pury, with all its undoubted achievements and debts, I would suggest that $ 30 million - said Mikhail Kamensky, director of Sotheby's, the CIS '.- This transaction is a smart move. If such a powerful and analytically advanced companies like Mercury decided to invest in development of the auction house, it is obviously involves the orientation of the alliance on Russia's market. But the most important for an interested observer should be that this transaction takes place against the backdrop of a catastrophic collapse of stock markets. This means that Mercury and forbsovskaya clientele appreciates the potential of Russia's artistic market, is interested in him and wants to add to the already existing line of luxury goods is the luxury brand called "art".
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On the subject , Simon de Pury: on the art market are not cold brokers
  http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=6855

bad time for contemporary art, which in fact good)))

Good for purchases?
I wish it really opened up, at least one normal auction house will appear in Moscow.

And what Sovkom?

Two will be - it is the auction house. Excellent.

dustpan is a small antique shop, compared to Phillips de Pury & Company, but all will have their own niche .. At Phillips own klintura vazhno.Problema and this one - debility law on the removal of (bought) the cultural values of Russia, in the main brake antiques trade, but with such attendants (as Phillips), the problem to change the law a trifling matter.

Do you think that these western antikvarschiki will bribe our people's elected representatives and they all do, that those they are told?

And then the Western? Is already Russia's auction house, and he will live on Russia's laws (and do not give bribes, just take a job in the auction house, the relatives the right people). And the law itself has long needed to be changed .. recently had a big article Gusev (Russian Museum) to change the law and the deputy amended http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showth...775#post146775 including everything is already in the right direction.

Well, if so.
But you yourself recently skeptical about possible changes in the law.
I now give you your same passage:

".. Absolutely no sense, yet the basis of a paper on Stalin's cultural values and private ownership of art ignored completely irrelevant to sense changes will not give, empty hot air .."

I still think so, but remember we discussed recently, that we should remove all taxes on importation of cultural property because of abroad? And now the amendment probably will soon .. Everything is going in the right direction, now the main task (change), to normalize the export of antiques from Russia in 2009-2010 .. probably will change ..
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Here are a normal law "European Union: import and export of cultural property" http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=2605 we get there .. probably just need more time, not now.