Dear dealers! Sorry for having asked a harsh tone, giving this very reason some opponents do not appear in the gentlemen's form, and simply, to be rude to a stranger, who personally had not applied. Fact that it is the evaluation of the creative heritage of a particular artist's plucked from the context of art, small works are not the first series, shown on the above mentioned auctions. I hope you will agree that "Above the Eternal Peace" Levitan, for example, the work of an entirely different order than the preparatory sketch for the same master. And it should be quite different, regardless of the material and size. You appreciate art as the length of material in the store. Type, a large piece of silk better than a piece of calico a smaller size, but how and by whom it is shown - not the essence.
Besides, many of you are as prone to exaggeration and distortion, specific prices, I did not write. For mentally balanced members of correspondence, which, fortunately, too, have, to announce: I live and work in Europe, in Russia are rare, with local dealers (as it turned out, fortunately) do not communicate. Our gallery is not engaged in dealer sales. We have representatives in Russia, who agree on direct sales is the first of a number of artistic, creative individuality of the artist works directly with the owners. And we, in turn, find collectors in Europe and North America who want to have in their collections is stylistically recognizable, title, indicative of a number of Soviet artists. Of these sales, I do own conclusions. Make public the names of buyers and sellers, I do not have the right, subscribe gave. I do not understand why my opinion of only one artist led to a vicious, to slyunoizverzheniya, the reaction of local verbiage. Gentlemen, we're not competitors, we did not intersect, and, I hope I never encounter each! Do not worry so take care of your health! Well you're so excited you? Some of the same Astaltseva of the Internet and at auctions, can be effectively evaluated in 1-1,5 thousand dollars. You're absolutely right, these figures, but only with respect to these specific works. Two or three I've seen things and that is cheaper. Come across things and quite decent, priced lower than they should, even dumping dealer auction Gelos. Price same policy in general is very strange, and uncertain. Often the best work is assessed much lower than the worst. Not evaluated the state of the work. Some Dmitri hard in different places trades clearly unfinished work - podmalevkom, arguing that the experts Sovkoma appreciate her 100 thousand. As such, the picture is not able to distinguish Ferapontovo of Kolomna. Bravo, Russian dealer! Here you all to earnestly discuss the artist, but nobody told the seller that exhibited their work ruined. Even the photo shows that she is flooded with either varnish, or darkened varnish late overlay. Work to restore to, but not appreciated. About Sovkome: Of course, schischennuyu palette knife with a realistic picture could be viewed as a complete work of avant-garde, but the appraiser should be aware to what style of this artist worked and, therefore, to evaluate and take things to the auction. That is, should be a professional.
In any adequate public at first received detailed information about the creative face of the artist as a whole, with all the artistic medium of the same time, visualize a place among the masters of his contemporaries, and only then do so cosmic in scope statements and conclusions, as in these pages. Otherwise it turns the situation described in the parable of the elephant and the blind.
The desire to engage in this rotten, as it turned out, the controversy, I have actually called peremptory and not very professional in the conventional world view, statements made by some respondents on the evaluation of all the works of masters of such a small number of products and nonexponential. I'm on this step very sorry, more on your forum will not go. Something I've lost the habit ten years from the fangs of our okolotvorcheskoy Russian intelligentsia. Your wildly market me a little scared and surprised. Chur me, mind you! I wish all the commercial success, but somehow too evil characters come across here. Hungry, probably ...
