All greetings from Maastricht, which opened yesterday, the largest fair of art. Actually, yesterday was the so-called "thumbs" - the fair picture of its customers were invited, tickets were not sold, the official opening today. The people of yesterday - not overcrowded, three hours after the discovery of almost all the stands were actively covered with red dots - Prodan pictures, simply amazing how many sold in the first few hours.
Including the ending points impression: an offensive contemporary art, with each passing year it becomes more and more, and five years ago, it was not there at all. Today and repulsive sawn in half boar Hirst already marking next to Cranach and Brueghel, and idiotic glands Chamberlain scare away the Impressionists and old masters.
From our: late Mansurov on 65000, exquisite De Steel - 1,9 million,
good Lanskoy - 250 000, Chagall gouache on 500 000, Jawlensky and Kandinsky - plus 30%compared with the pre-crisis prices, Soutine never saw one casting Archipenko 1997 (!!!) - 250 000, and so on. In general, the crisis is not even memories.
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