Dear Allena, Vyacheslav,
You, as a connoisseur, of course know best - and the quality of painting, and paintings belong to a single author or not, and whether the hammer or not. I do not argue. I am not an art, in painting do not understand, and to your community do not have a highbrow attitude.
All our pictures (I have already contacted here for help with the attribution of one painting, and here on the forum it is also called the originating from a flea market) have the same origin. Several years ago we bought them abroad. The gross. One lot from the heirs of a deceased professor. I have his name, and write that he lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and whether in Bucharest, or in Budapest, I do not remember, had not looked into this paper. I always confuse them (Bucharest to Budapest). For these ordinary people, away from high areas, the main value of the inheritance handed down was a huge mansion on the outskirts of a major south-German city. So that was inside the house, they did not "steamed". They had to quickly leave the house with all fixtures located inside the house to sell quickly.
It is banal provenance. Such grandparents, and such Russian there in Europe a lot. Of course, we bought a "pig in a poke." Moreover, they themselves are far from these areas. But our "investment" is already fully paid off. Some paintings we have sold quite well. And now I decided to deal with some "dark horse" ... Including this mysterious "Nikitin" th.
PS The first picture is the same signature is present in the lower right corner ...
PPS Where the picture was from my grandfather - I do not know. All records of the collector were simply thrown away.
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I can not resist, not to speak out more about your favorite "provena'nse. It is tempting to pronounce that word with a French accent ...
I am sure that serious professionals of the market can not take the notion seriously. For the professional operators in your market is the usual marketing tool to get more profit from selling their goods. And it is designed to manipulate the buyer. But not each other.
What percentage of truth in the provenance, which sold paintings at auctions? And what percentage of the truth such as the biographies of politicians, for whom their public biography of the same provenance? And how many percent truth in advertising the goods? etc. and TP
Even I can not really hesitate to invent some plausible biography for any pictures, and a proof that this is true ...
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