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And by the way the truth why Dali, whose name is first linked the concept of surrealism, with a record of late?

I do not know who the author of this article, but rather curious:

According to an unwritten law when an artist dies, his work immediately begin to be assessed at 15-20%higher than during his lifetime. This happens with all more or less well-known creators, but not ... with Salvador Dali.

  On the day of the death of Andy Warhol's phone art galleries of California red. Art lovers will certainly wanted to snap up all of his works, which are freely available. After the death of Salvador Dali experts pursed her lips disapprovingly: Dali's work, they say, is not listed - too often he signed blank sheets of paper, paying their drawings doctors, attendants, were unreasonably high circulation of his lithographs and engravings, too much fraud to appear on the market during the life of the artist. One expert even dared to voice the cost of fraud "dalinianoy" on an international scale - $ 3 billion. And John Tankok - the then vice-president of Impressionist auction house Sotheby's - flatly declared: "Death of Salvador Dali would have no impact on rates at the auctions.

Twenty years after the death of the eccentric artist experts' forecasts, alas, proved to be true. Hundreds of works by Dali appear at auction each year, but rarely do you sell the work at an affordable price. In recent years, only 6 pictures (of thousands!) Exceeded the price of 500,000 euros. Among them, "Allegory of Air" - 825,000 euros (Christie's auction of 2006.) And "Portrait of Madame Schlumberger - 803,000 euros (Sotheby's auction 2008).. The most expensive canvas Dali was a portrait of "My naked wife" sold in 2000. in London for 4,127,000 dollars to a private collector. Most of the works of Salvador Dali's going for ridiculous prices or not at all appear unused.

Relying on new technologies, Madrid auction house Sala Retiro turned his sights on the world wide web. The first auction on-line, which was exposed to drawing by Salvador Dali, was held at the Spanish site Ebay.com in 2004. Work, size 18x12, 5 cm, written between 1925 and 1930. won the Catalan private collectors all over .... 5100 euro!

   
In the year 2003. Paris was put up for auction, private collection "Captain" John Peter Moore (John Peter Moore) - the former secretary of Salvador Dali. More than 450 drawings, watercolors, oil paintings and sculptures, signed by the artist awaits its new owners. However, in most cases, the waiting was in vain. According to experts, to put the collection up for sale a year before the centennial of the master - it was a gross mistake.

Generally, the auction was surrounded by strange events. One of the pieces removed from the auction due to the fact that expert Robert Desharne (former manager of a genius and his biographer) was unable to confirm the authorship of Dali. Other work - small image size 9,6 x12, 8 cm, appears in the catalog at number 361 (the starting price of 500 euros) - was either lost, or stolen. Administration of the auction said that they had nothing to do with, and if that happened, during a recent collection trips (to the experts in Vienna, Zurich and Milan). 1967 card deck of 23 cards, made Dali felt-tip pen, which predicted a very high interest rates, not interested in any of those present. In general, many drawings, posters and sketches of an artist left fans indifferent to art, with the exception of numerous erotic drawings on display on the second day of the auction.

Star has become the landscape "Llano Beach in Cadaques" 1923. (La playa del Llane en Cadaques), sold for 360,000 euros. In the auction of this painting was attended by some owners of the Catalan and galleries, but in the end, they were forced to retreat, seeing as the price passes for 200 000 euros. Appreciated, and another work - "A retrospective bust of a woman" in 1933 (Retrospective Bust of a Woman). Bronze bust with a long loaf of bread on his head, ants on the face and ears of corn as a necklace, went for 300,000 euros, 50,000 more than the owners hoped to auction Artcurial.

 Sometimes the initial price grew, almost ten times. This happened with the picture "Sister Daly with a doll" in 1923 with 2,000 euro price has risen to 17 000.

However, the auction helped out just over four million euros instead of the expected seven million.

Many collectors and art lovers participated in the bidding by phone, were among them and the Spaniards. Foundation Gala-Dali to participate in the auction declined due to litigation with the owner of the collection for auction, "Captain" Moore (a nickname coined by Daly) about the creation of possible fraud.

John Moore - the figure is ambiguous. Former military, who served in World War II in the intelligence services of allied forces in the postwar years, began working on the film producer Alexander Korda. The film "Richard III», held in Rome, he met with the artist who was commissioned poster for the film.

Being responsible for the Vatican's television channel, he organized a meeting of Dali with the pope and, possibly, used his connections to help cancel the first church marriage Gala and organize the wedding master and his Russian wife. From 1960 to 1974, as secretary and manager, he was accompanied by Dali and Gala are everywhere: in the annual winter voyage to New York in the spring and autumn in the Meurice Hotel in Paris in the summer in Cadaques.

For the first time a collection Perrot-Moore was introduced in 1973. in Figueras, and City Council appointed "Captain" Moore's chief curator of the Museum of Figueras.

But it was in Cadaques, leaving the work of Dali, Moore and his wife set up his museum - a museum Perrot-Moore, at the opening of which in 1974 he attended the Dali and Gala. Get rid of the collection, according to him, made him too high cost of maintaining the museum.

At the auctions of works of Dali sometimes strange things are happening, as if the master continues to make fun of their fans. Organizers auctions only sigh, seeing that their clothes are good commission once again failed to materialize. Eccentric in life, Salvador Dali, and after his death continues to be a great mystifier, Surrealist and simply divine, "as he called himself. And like any deity - all material and financial alien to him.

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