Help with the assessment, please!
 

Dear forum users! Always look down at your forum, very much professional expertise and humane attitude to the newcomers. Thank you!

So I have this need to seek help.
I buy. I like to madness. The artist is known, the assessment is. Properly assessing the amount I can pull, but the picture has suffered (according to seller) of the fragments during the war. Need serious restoration. Size large (approximately 50 to 85) that, in my understanding, too much for the ultimate cost of restoration. Very need your score to the list of required works and their estimated price in St. Petersburg. Photos, unfortunately, only one. I understand that this is not enough for a serious evaluation, but I need at least the order of digits. Once heard the view that the restoration is 2 times more expensive than the cost of the work. In this case, I do not make sense to buy. I just never be able to restore it.

you just scared, but when the restoration work is more expensive than the work itself, but in your case it is not. The more you do it in a good state of preservation, and restoration does not require special. I think $ 500 is the maximum you will be able to qualitatively restore it.

So name the author, the assessment ozvuchte.

This is someone probed, I think, cheated, or just something you do not understand.
This picture, as I see, requires very little restoration.

Added after 1 minutes 30 minutes
Your request is not very clear.

Thank you very much. Your views to me more than enough! Most did not understand the price of restoration, I was very afraid of making a mistake. Words: "Painting in good condition" sufficient to make the decision (to participate in the bidding or not). Now this question does not bother me. Thanks again.

In correspondence bidding, as I understood.
In one photo of risk to buy?
You, as is clear from your message, not very experienced in these matters. In my opinion, you run the risk explicitly.

Cyril, thank you very much, that drew my attention to the behavior of the seller and offered their assessment of the picture. You were quite right. Preassigned day of the meeting, the seller has once again gone for a week. Your advice helped me to calm down. Inexperienced in these matters, women are very prone to emotional purchases :) "If you sell something in the same spirit, let me know, please. Well, the plot is very like-ah-ah-ah-ah :shy:

And what you'll like that?
"Roots". :o

and the buyer, as I understood, the crook-tossed.:D