In the UK antiques has risen in price despite crisis
 

For three months of 2009 in the UK have risen prices of decorative art, namely, the jewelry and silverware. This conclusion is contained in the report of the Royal Institute of Valuers (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Rics). The newspaper The Guardian, Citing the report, noted that the highest prices for antiques seen at auction in lots of low-cost sector - a thousand pounds or less (ie up to one thousand five hundred dollars).
From Rics report shows that investors are seeking safe investments purchased antiques. A similar phenomenon is observed by experts, to monitor the work of the largest antiques fair TEFAF in Maastricht in March 2009. Commentators noted that affluent buyers willingly invested in the "old masters", which seem to them more reliable modern art.
The prices of contemporary art to fall still not finished. In early April 2009, Mikhail Kamensky, general director of "Sotheby's Russia - CIS, predicted that the work of contemporary artists have become cheaper by 45-50 percent from their highs.

    In sanity it can not refuse! ;)

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       Everything is logical.

  Tjutchev, in Russia safer to buy paintings 1930-1950gg.
"Old Masters" Unfortunately no, the Bolsheviks looted ..

        Eugene, well, the Bolsheviks did not need all the blame. The Bolsheviks were different. And how many pieces of art from Russia are still in the U.S. and Europe? And do not count! ... Everything is much more complicated. The October Revolution (and subsequent events behind it) - a controversial phenomenon in Russian history. Those labels, which are mounted now, as biased as those who were hung in the Soviet times. As always, the truth is somewhere in between.

So I'm writing about this, the Bolsheviks there cars paintings from the Hermitage sold ..
Complicated nothing, looted, and then from 1925 to 70gg sold.
But we moved away from the topic again.

      Great Patriotic forgotten ...

There was something interesting?

    What are you interested in?

Yes, I do not know, you remember .. Bolsheviks damage cultural heritage of Russia attacked hundreds of times more than the Germans.

     Eugene, the Bolsheviks - it's too amorphous, there have always been a specific person, situation. Time was not prstoe, dramatic. Were the Bolsheviks who were selling, but there were those who, for that to counteract this, in the camps were dying.