Who said that they were small?
 

Today's program XVII century Dutch still-life - the work of Willem Klaas, Klaas Gedy, Willem Kalf, and many others, which are called "small Dutch. Look at how many of them harmony, but in their "quiet life" (all decent people call this zhenr exactly Stillleben, Still life, and only the scoundrels French dubbed it a "dead nature", and Russian, of course, sobezyannichali!) Finally, how much greatness in them.
These still lifes, sometimes written on the blackboard, often appear on the market.
With regard to their investment potential - can not say anything, but for the price, tell a story like this: once one Rublevsky dealer, I saw quite a wonderful still life - on a dark background, with silver, crystal, etc., is stylistically very similar to Guesde, the whole evening could not depart from it. And then found out that he sold it for $ 100000 - because it is a gift!

In short, litsezreyte and admire:)

LCR, I remember as a child, I tore color reproductions of the magazine Ogonyok and putting them on kvartire.Takim way it was my first universities on the painting.
So I met Gedoy, Klas, Chardin, and others.

Please pay special attention to the work of Adrian Kurt (10 and 20), he "discovered" recently. Stylistically, it differs from the others, right? His work is less formal, more graceful and in my opinion, absolutely irresistible.

The Germans then later made by the Dutch ... Maybe one of those picture was? Although now and those Germans are decent.
Rather, in Prague was a large group of germanoyazychnyh artists who were engaged in stylization, and sometimes just an imitation of works by Flemish and Dutch painters of the turn of 16-17 centuries.
What many now call "the second Prague Mannerism.

I think I realized why the French so-called this style of work.
Because basically all still lifes reflect the impact of good booze and snacks.
When they drank and ate - all items (food and wine) were "alive", it was fun, well.
Morning - looked, all scattered, overturned, drunk, eaten, dead somehow.
All things look "dead." Hence the name. :): p: D

No, she was absolutely correct. And in general they are inexpensive, Frosik recently found one in the catalog of some of the auction, can confirm.

Here please: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/l...6-a7ef4614fe74

But lift up, I'm moving this topic to the exhibition of the Dutch:)

Yes, not expensive, $ 266.500.:)
As such things "builds up" cost is an issue of extraordinary depth.
However, sometimes, looking at photographs of the same, in kind differentiate as heaven and earth.
Witnessed such a scene in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg.
There hangs a madman Heda Still Life, approximately 120 x 100 cm guide describes the group of tourists see how everything is real and alive, which emanates from the heat of silver. Type the maid had just been there and ran for the next course. Pause ... People looking for work. Then guide says, and the maid could have returned, and watches over you. And then the people, as if on cue, began to turn heads, turn around, like really, if anyone is watching ......

When I walk in the Hermitage on the "low Dutch" still life as a quick pass, but the "portrait of a young man's hand Frans Hals adore ...- love about him to stand ...