Maastricht 2013
 

Hello from Maastricht , which opens tomorrow, the largest art fair of the world. Today - the so-called preview , the show only for customers of participating galleries fairs, from the street to become possible, tickets are not sold , only on personal invitations . People gathered - an incredible number , queue at the entrance to the pavilion was about 20 minutes , I first went to the bench , where I was very interested in a proposal. So, for the first half hour at this stand was sold 16 works ! But I was lucky and managed to seem to buy a rare thing. In the near future definitely will deal with it, and then, perhaps, to share emotions . Photos, trends and prices - later.

So , first impressions. Fair is not the same. Ten years ago , coming here , you get one big museum, which exhibited here Miro, Soutine, de Stael , Magritte ! Today, by and large only one masterpiece - a magnificent Delvaux for 2.8 million euros. The rest is , at best, are drawn to " good." The prices tend inexorably into space: a small watercolor Kampendonka - 95 thousand euro , little Matthew - 275 000, is not the best Lempicka - 3.25 million, flimsy Cranach Jr. - 1.65 million , a small wooden sculpture Zadkine - 400 thousand
A serious rise in graphics and mass production . Beardsley tiny couple of years ago you could buy for 20 000 euro , now asking for it 95, and for the mass-circulation Dürer engraving calmly called 175,000. So it goes.

On their website a little video overview, 1 minute, all segments.

Link to the video.

qwerty Hello!

Well, what you did not see a beautiful portrait of Soutine on a blue background in the Canadian gallery? (forgot her name) and the other a few things I've seen quite decent .

People was not enough, I agree, but this is possible because of the weather . As London and Paris , Eurostar canceled half because of snowfall. so some people just do not get there.
Others stood in traffic for 15 hours, who was driving the car.

In general, the trend in the stands, was not on schedevry + detail as before, but on a secondary thing , but in the mass of better quality.

On the other hand, is clearly not fair enough Russian, and Arabic kitayskiyh buyers .. One Europe in its juice , and even America .

Arab buyers with great difficulty at his own and that is not enough, with super intensive media processing , and only on like this, I doubt very much in the next couple of decades.

The fact of the matter is that a decent and quite decent work across, but much less than before , and there was virtually no masterpieces . Granted, the boy in the gallery Soutine Landau good , but still not one of the top Soutine , and the price more than 3 million bites.
Well , a little bit of pictures, which I have already said: enchanting Delvaux, watercolor Kampendonka , Cranach , Jr. for $ 1.65 million, Lempicka , great Matthew for 2 million , studio Wesselmann at 98,000 , was still a very Wesselmann, but for $ 1.1 million , a nice Zadkine for 400 000, is not familiar to me earlier Pine ( this oil on canvas) , a fun bench - also a work of art , and finally , a panel of heads of live roses at the entrance to the fair.