Painting Magpies - to buy?
 

Dear forum users: Please advise if there plan to buy so this picture. Cardboard or hardboard (oil on board), oil, 51 x 40, photo back side of no. I was interested. I'll go watch a few days. Price not yet determined definitively, and would like to know how far you can bargain (if any, examples of auction or gallery-price). What do you think, if true, and what she has for the moment the investment potential? Thank you very much.

Did you specify what Magpies?

Arkady, b. 1921
I saw the name in the database Artinvestment, but the pictures and the prices can not see, because I am not a subscriber.

Arkady Soroka, 25.07.1921, Vinnitsa. He graduated from Odessa Art School (D. Krainev, L. Muchnik). In 1945-46 he worked as an artist in Moscow's Commissariat of Communications. Honored Artist of USSR (1980). A beautiful artist and person, the master of the portrait. Today it is not the one eye and work, of course, other ...
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about pricing will not say, but good job ... even a

And that hand is not "is drawn, it does not bother you?

PS: Does anyone know where the layman can look at the results of the auction at Soroka, to estimate at least a price range? Thanks

Are you sure that this picture Arkady Vasilevich? For some imitation Renoir.

I absolutely have no guarantee that this Soroka, and therefore asked not to lopuhnutsya. Thanks to huge what prompted about Renoir. I propose to put the two works side by side and move to the forgery.

I'm sure with the work of A. Magpies are not very familiar, but why so categorically? Perhaps he was interested in works of Renoir, for example.

Well, you're right, a fake - it's too, the signature still not Renoir. Naming a copy?

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Add information that is now just I will not buy: the picture will be auctioned, with the description of an artist named Arkady Soroti. How do you think this is an innocent typographical error or intentionally done, then to avoid any claims for the auction, which gives a picture of the true Soroka ?:cool::cool:<!-- ~ 10 ->