qwerty,
Edward Steinberg (Academician, nonconformist) .. on contemporary artists, prices, etc.
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Q: Today, prices for paintings of artists of your generation have reached staggering heights at auction. Kabakov spent several million dollars. Drew themselves up to one million milestone Krasnopevtsev, Bulatov, Vasiliev ... Do they really worth all that money?
E. Steinberg: One dress, then stand. At this point you can laugh, you can applaud. But I'm skeptical. I am a little familiar with the situation on the art market. In Western art such prices do not.
in: Some experts predict Russia's art market inevitable collapse. Others, however, are convinced that at current oil prices will rise and prices of art.
E. Steinberg: My prediction is reduced to the fact that this market will certainly collapse. From modern art to remain two or three: Kabakov, Weisberg, Krasnopevtsev. When will incur to sell the rest, their pictures will be worth two pennies ... "
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From the article (avt.Yu.Kovalenko) Eduart Steinberg "I'm not interested in kissing policemen"
http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showth...4325#post34325
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I agree completely, another 2-3 nonconformists, the rest (sots.art, pop.art and other fashionable "rubbish "...)" will cost two pennies ..."