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At the forum there are many useful informatsii.Chast, I have collected in this commentary (the authors have forgotten, but not the point ....)
Investing in art, it seems, are so complex that only a manageable art critics. Should I start, if he does not understand, and knowledgeable friends do not?

In fact, among collectors and investors almost no professional art critics or people with specialized education.
.. Collecting never taught.
No university, where he teaches how to understand the sixties, "Paris School" or the impressionists, where they teach to bargain and to understand the value of periods.
There is hardly any textbooks, which lists the names of "correct" experts, galleries and customs brokers. The road to explore the subject of collecting all about the same: read the profile of literature, visiting exhibitions, meeting with art dealers and independent shopping experience ..

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One rule: do not fully believe the papers, a variety of expert opinions. In fact, the expertise, there is now reputational.
Legal liability expert shall not be, that is, has every right to make mistakes with impunity.
Therefore, market expertise was compromised "of paid" conclusions.
How then to cope? There is a narrow circle of experts (specializing in one or two artists), whose opinion is highly valued in the market.
Experienced collectors it is enough alone their words.
And vice versa: Well-known experts whose positive conclusions about the authenticity of the disadvantage attributed their works.
Can you imagine that? And the thing is some sort would no doubt, and the conclusion of a positive, but signed as "incorrect" expert, that sell work with such a paper would be more difficult. Knowledgeable buyer would be expected to catch.
Examination, of course, necessary, especially for expensive works, but you need to take responsibility for the choice of nominee (for promotion may apply, for example, in the profile picture).
It should also be borne in mind that for most of the first names are registered funds, the conclusion of which is final and the only recognizable - such as Marc Chagall Committee, funds Yavlensky, Kandinsky, Pyotr Konchalovsky, etc. However, this is not the field for new investors. We also know that one of the most frequently counterfeited directions is a Russian avant-garde of the first third of XX century, especially the revolutionary vanguard (Suprematism, etc.) - things have global significance.
Collecting them is already first-class collection, which requires the highest professional competence and flair, so newcomers to the pores on the forefront of the better and not to dream.
Why take the risk, fearing for the authenticity, if you can buy work at prestigious auctions? There's something for sure all the checks ...
Auction does not guarantee against "falshaka. Such transactions are not uncommon, though they are not intentionally. Auctions are trying to protect consumers from surprises as they can. And they can? After all auctions in the same way based on the documents, the official expert opinion. About the difficulties associated with it, we have just described.
Even before conducting the auction of the exhibition, where you can come with their expert. But also do not guarantee. Episodes of "puncture". Thing bought in a decent place, brought to Russia and here - a failure on examination. Severe cases.
Back auction house will be beset with painful formalities.
We'll have to prove that their experts were wrong, and your attributed correctly. Moreover, the burden of collecting admissible evidence spuriousness things also have to bear the unfortunate owner.
General Board-Do not make a purchase at the slightest doubts.
Better greatly overpay for the real thing than the "advantageous" to buy a fake.
Even too much bought the original one day catch up and surpass its price, becoming even more expensive.
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Walk to museums, long look at the originals of your beloved artist. This will help you understand many things.
Trust your eyes, taste, and the first impression.
Do not overestimate the value of certificates: not based on persuasive arguments is confirmed only assurance expert, if not its uncleanliness.
Go to the sellers themselves, to plan the presentation of them. Do not wait for you to bring "just what you love, it is now discovered in the attic.
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For the most part, collectors - people who are willing to pay large sums, because they believe that so they can get into the story.
The collection is a gleam of immortality. Man has always wanted and dreamed to overcome death. There are several options. I'll write a book, it will issue - I would die, and she left. Or head of a lot of children, they grow up to be like me ... Collection Collection is a way preodaleniya death.
Here's Tretyakov - ordinary industrialist, which was much in Russia. But he was more collected, and therefore remained in our memory and will remain after us.
That's why the price of a work of art can be anything. Faust was willing to appoint any price for immortality - and collectors for some things that can become the history of art, are willing to pay for a ticket to eternity.
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The investor must always remember that investing in art - long-term. In addition, you must only buy high-quality work.
It is always better to buy a top-end thing is the artist of the second row than the checkpoint, even the great mastera.Obyasnenie this is simple: poor performance simply does not reflect the qualities of the artist, for which he valued.
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Investing Basics: liquidity, profitability and reliability of purchased goods ..
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 Collecting is knowledge, and this knowledge is always work .....
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The forum has a lot of useful information.
Let's start with the most interesting.
User forum under the nickname (qwerty) (one of the most interesting and experienced collectors, who are present at the forum, sorry stopped writing ...):
Ideas are the following. (And collecting).
To build a decent collection that must be met four conditions:
1. The market should be provided a sufficient number of the selected areas.
2. These works should be high enough quality.
March. They must cost a reasonable price.
4. There should be a concept, combining a selected work in a single whole.
I agree 100%, an example of a thematic collection: "Tiflisskaya School", a collection of A. Piradova. (EA)
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Ten tips from Dudakova Valeria .. (One of the best collectors in Russia).
1. Only buy what you like and listen to your intuition.
2. Do not buy a job only because it is expensive.
March. Get eyes, not ears. Poor score collector - "swine eyes.
4. Bringing up their vision for the unconditional standard. Explore the subject of his collecting as much as possible: to collect books, directories, memoirs. Avoid fakes, but do not blame them in another meeting.
5. Artistic value and cost of items often do not coincide. Do not yield to rarities because enchanting prices: they are priceless.
6. Do not give short-term conditions. Know how to evaluate prospects. Pay more than other, it is very rewarding.
7. Do not be greedy, let's work on the exhibition, to be published. This will bring additional benefits and will make good collector's glory.
8. It contains his collection in perfect order: it will pay off triple.
9. Try to get even trivial work favorite author.
10. The measure of the quality of the collection are the best and the worst thing. Freed from the worst, raises the bar top. The main value of the collection - its wholeness.

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Michael Perchenko. (collector, the gallery owner "Old Masters")
".... In the world there are many collectors - the great saint, they shovel the vast amount of material, looking for some kind of value. And sometimes you see - a wonderful man, a huge number of objects and collections as such does not exist. Collection - this layer, and level. Quality, quality, and quality. A man is weak. He had to buy some things related to a whole bunch of memories, joy. And he does not want to part with things. The result - the collection is littered with. We must clearly realize that's hanging on the wall of your favorite image, emotional explosions associated with its prey, and next - even three. And if the favorite does not stand comparison with them on quality - get rid of it mercilessly. Anyone who was able to overcome it in a gathering, hoarding - and he becomes serious collector. And another. unsociable me Chekhov said that you need to squeeze a drop of a slave. The collector should drop by drop squeezed from a buyer. The excitement when you buy a piece of art - a sense that you want to pull themselves out with pliers, scalpel, a corkscrew. What please. because it lies 99%of errors collectibles. Gust, you want to buy something - fine, but the excitement is lost on such priorities. And you can buy a whole slew of useless junk, instead of a crush it 99 times, but one - buy something really serious for the collection. And the whole world seduces you purchase. You have come to the gallery and see two or three dozen objects. It takes the first boom - you know, yes, those three dozen would suit you to a collection, but none of the They are not raised nor would it up a notch. So you do not need it. The ability to leave low-quality things - what makes a collector of the collector and, as we say, dustman.
Within the clan there is some division?
- There are different types of collectibles. There are instances when a powerful urge for collecting, plus an incredible brain power, plus the money and understanding that you can not be a buyer, and should attract experts, do a very good, strong collection. For example, a collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza, which is demonstrated today in Madrid, in a separate building and competing with the Prado on the number of visits. This Frick Collection in New York, rival the Metropolitan. I was tempted by another type of collectible - if you rely only on their strength, knowledge, taste. If you do not have enough knowledge, of course, you kontaktiruesh with those who have them in this area anymore. But experts determine your collection - you yourself.
But it is an endless journey?
- Absolutely. Moreover, the vertices of this path is not never reach. They have already formed. This - Gathering of the Medici family, which founded the world's most brilliant Uffizi gallery. Never one private collector not reach this level. This collection of Rudolf in Vienna Gallery, Pitti, Munich Pinakothek. Their level is unreachable - no such money, and no such works. Most of the paintings, which are stored in these museums, buying from the machine, from the author. Still, there is one area where you can try to keep the level of these sobraniy.Eto - quality. You have 20 things, and not 20,000, as in the Uffizi, but any one of your paintings would hang out there. This is a very big goal. Elusive, but possible. And the longer you have pieces that do not compete with the world's masterpieces, but are their friends, the higher your collection ......
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Vladimir Bogdanov (member of our forum, one of the best journalists of Russia on the theme "Investing in Art" (wrote on this subject for over 10 years ...):
 

.. "Investing in an antique painting, as indeed in the postwar modernist, was sufficiently predictable. This is an advantage. On the side of a collector of antique collection of investment - sales statistics, the history of auction prices, literature, catalogs, reasoning exhibitions, museum exhibitions. The value of artworks held in the history of art has been defined, studied his works, especially valuable during periods marked by successful, innovative was his assessment. The risks to the investor are that you can buy a fake thing or mediocre quality. But the risk of spending money on thing with the looming prospect of investment is almost there. Accents in the works held "antique" the artist has placed securely ...."
"... And here, actually, we got to the point. For Investment Success requires knowledge and luck - a combination of them. The only option that allows to gain confidence on investment ..... learn to understand yourself: read a lot, ask experts interesting topic to study, attend exhibitions, digging into the Internet, communicate with collectors.
Investing in art is a serious and sometimes nervous intellectual work. But the rewards for it are not only money but also a special pleasure from owning a work of art - fun, which does not give any other investment vehicle ... "
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: old masters - a concept usually refers to the masters who worked in the Renaissance (roughly XIV-XVI century), but in the international bidding in the auction include art by old masters and those who lived and worked in the XVII-XVIII centuries. It appears on the site Sotheby's - from Giotto to Goya, which is about the beginning of XIV century to 1800.
Modern and contemporary art - these English words are found in the names of Western auctions and translated as "contemporary art". However, the term «modern» means the art of early twentieth century, and the «contemporary» means what is happening in art in recent decades.