TEFAF
 

In Maastricht, this week called the world's largest exhibition of art and antiques TEFAF.
You can look at:
http://www.tefaf.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=90

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I looked catalog, of course, there are wonderful things.
These I especially liked:

1. Spider by Louise Bourgeois
2. Some unusual and very, in my opinion, a beautiful Coro
3. It is irresistible Cranach
4. Charming Le Sidaner
5. Some Nolde, it seems to me that the best
6. A remarkable picture of Rembrandt
7. The great statue of Borneo (now that I would like to have a home:)) and another statue of the Congolese, but I'll put them in the "primitive art"

Of course, there are still a lot of miracles, in particular, anlyuminirovannye medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, maps, unearthly beauty and a lot of decorative arts, which, frankly, I looked through without due consideration.


In general, buyers, get from the pockets of their credit cards:)

Sky what!

Yeah, as told to Eugene, one hundred tons of classroom work :):):)

All greetings from Maastricht! I here I go many years, but such a concentration of people has never happened before: to get inside, I stood in line for twenty minutes! Organizers - handsome, have tried. Imagine: you walk into the room and find yourself in a corridor of approximately 50 to 100 m, whose walls are twenty feet high composed of cut heads, white and pink roses, the smell almost knocked the legs, and further in all directions of the road from the red and white terry tulips.
First impression: nothing has changed, the number of participants has grown, many years, there has traditionally been divided into four sections: the art of the twentieth century, old masters, and yuvelirka section, which includes ancient art, Egyptian affairs, Oceania, Africa, etc. In this year added a new section -- design. Total area of eye - about 20 of our antique shops, maybe less, but the level of exhibitors is so high that it simply takes to the skies.
Mood - the most optimistic, almost all have something to sell, talk about the crisis only in subjunctive mood. Prices - completely pre-crisis, perhaps even higher, at least, I do not recall that earlier for small-sized gouaches Rouault asked for 400 000 euros, a decent Lanskoy - 160 000, good Chagall gouache - 1 250 000. I tried to bargain for a couple of things - to fail, do not give discounts. Unfortunately, it is forbidden to photograph, so I can not make you happy with factual material, especially some examples of contemporary art, which is markedly increased.
I'll try tomorrow to get some pictures of Koi, although I do not know what will happen.

What a pity that you can not take pictures. And some vsetaki is a contradiction, in fact paved the catalog pictures. Hidden camera straight at least some to master. We look forward to continuing. Sixties we have?

Collectors like smokers, their crisis is not a hindrance.

We know the publications about the success of the Basques http://forum.artinvestment.ru /showthread.php? t=20985 . And who is more prominently represented from the modern? Even if the names with comments.

.... want to go there is because of only roses .......
qwerty, and this room of roses can take a picture?
  or a photo in paradise do not?

Some news from Maastricht. Lawrence Earl (jewelry company Graff) sold a 30 carat diamond for $ 5 million, and immediately bought for 4.5 million Basquiat painting on a nearby bench. I looked at this Basquiat, would be better if this did not even have rashotelos. And this graph on the stand may be a blue diamond of 20 carats for $ 25 million.
Dickinson Gallery for 10 million euros sold Degas pastel in 1894
German gallery Kicken sold photograph taken of Man Ray in 1926 for 600 thousand euros - the case of Surrealism is alive and well.
Among other proposals: a small guashka Lansky - 25000 euros, Survage 40x30 - 140 000 euros, graphics Dix - 58000, Kirchner - 124000, Matisse - 500000 (pencil), Schiele - 980000, tiny Kandinsky (watercolor 41 years) - 440000, Modigliani -- 1 200 000. Small oil Da Silva - 450 000 euros, Yavlensky (18h14 cm) 365 000, Poles - 850000, and, finally, a good, but not more, Modigliani - 13 million euros. Such crisis prices.