"Gelos", antique-auction house
 

Well, friends, grasp the valerian, here's a topic about Antique, Auction House Gelos " (" Gelos "Antiques and Auction House), I personally, unlike most of the antique business leaders, charming and likable, if only because that due to "Gelos" can not personally meet most of the local antiquarians, well, of course, on average, give 15%of the amount of the transaction well, okay for the sake of such cases.
There are of course at the doorsteps of "Gelos", for example, not a very good copy of the portrait "A peasant from Muscel" painter Nicolae Grigorescu is declared as:
Compare the attached copy and the original ... but still, "Gelos-force", clearly. And what he does not like figures of the market is unclear.

gorelov, Oh let it not the first they can not, but probably not the last.

Well, it is understandable that many would say about the dubious authenticity of the works are sometimes encountered on "Gelos", but again, what kind of information known businessman Herman L. Sterligov informed about the features of evaluation of works of art at major auction:
Interestingly, the director of the Russian office of Sotheby's, Sotheby's Russia "does not deny the fact of his acquaintance with Sterligov and remembers him as follows:
By the way, drew attention to the phrase "Malevich - this is our faith, and it should be Russia, which just will not think that would sell ishing, we all know that the creed of most antique dealers are a dollar sign ($), but not with the squares of Malevich or whatever. In this sense, community is not behind Russian designers who even Putin and the CBR got acquainted with his faith - the sign of the ruble.

Not going to talk about the similarities or differences, my attitude to the copies (counterfeits) uniquely, but the purely visual to me more like the girl depicted in the work of Gelos. I think that her face is more Slavic in contrast to the original, which I see the features of the eastern type. I do not know why, but the eye to look nicer on the first portrait. That such an opinion.

Yes nicer.:)

I say that spending thousands of dollars on every Sotheby's, a good job for three thousand of "Gelos":) Even better than the original.

But it already is not a copy, once and signature "copy".

Strangely, I too,
if not for the signature, as well - disgusting.

Hence the conclusion of the note thereby "kopeistam": p:
 
by making copies of paintings by renowned artists, do not copy their signature, and put her (such and such, a copy of such and such) --
  value and liquidity of your work will be higher!

I am still pleased with the "Gelos" at least for the fact that they are how you magically know how to sell the work, even calling for a strong restoration. Well, for example, I would never in life could not restore this работку my father, and "Gelos" both found a man who bought it at auction or even three times the amount claimed.
So to say a portrait of the Russian soldier pacifist.

And why is it you are labeled a pacifist? Try to unearth the "full profile" sapper shovel - not only have footcloths dry.
And why did it "restore." Professionally tighten on a frame, to consolidate the paint layer - the minimum that is needed and that should have been done long ago.

Well, you probably know better than me the status of work, but he was not a stretcher, while the workshop was not to drag it to the same subframe.