Форум по искусству и инвестициям в искусство

A bored rainy autumn day early, hungry for my 90th I received an invitation from Michel Brochet.

The owner was polite, gave seemed to me extraordinarily tasty strudel, fine wine, the quality of which is clearly beyond the scope of my credit.

Then an elegant laptop, he presented a rather intricate web site of its collection. For me, who had no computer at that time, it was the first tangible illustration of the concept of the Internet. A site dedicated to his recently deceased wife, Lily, was created by Canadian husband, a specialist in this field. Michelle opened the notebook and showed how many visits his virtual collection on days it was the last month. In addition, he reported that daily receives proposals for the sale of paintings from the collection, although the main page posted an ad that no one piece is not for sale.

Then followed a demonstration with a detailed story about each piece of that part of the collection, which was located in his vast apartment. Retentive memory of the former inventor has kept a lot of details about the acquisition of each item.

- This is a nude Lily bought from the artist in New York. Our friend gave me the address of the "Russian prodigy. With some difficulty, having found in the slums of his apartment, kept knocking on the door. It was four o'clock. After some time on the threshold elderly, but strong man and ... completely naked! Moreover, it is not troubled by the presence of my wife. Upon learning the purpose of our visit, he waved his arms and started shouting that he had nothing, nothing for sale. Still, he let us into his very close, foul-smelling room and invited here this picture, adding: "The next time warn me beforehand, I'll cook something else." We quickly paid, and more have never seen it. Therefore, in the collection of only one painting by Vasily Sitnikov.

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