Nat , I'm not about those artists have in mind who is doing well . These words, though few. Someone here sells well ( portrait painters , mostly) , some in the West. But these are the singles, which ZAGRAEVSKY writes (see topikstarternuyu article), and very few of them . I estimate the personal, about 20 here , 20 there, and all . I could list them , do not want to sidetrack the discussion. I do not take those who make the art market indirectly ( the leaders of the creative unions , gallery owners and part-time , etc.). They are also a few dozen, but this is not a pure art market. Well, of the Arbat and the Crimean embankment counterparts in other cities , of which I did not say.
In this modern artists , serious and professional, in Russia only about thousands of EXP 15. Too big imbalance , do not you ?
A calm artists: "write , walk through the galleries , spins, and you will be happy ," can be any number . In ZAGRAEVSKY have on this subject even " advice to young creators ":
http://zagraevsky.com/beginners.htm
There, starting with No. 12, just about it .