[SergeiSK]

Quantity traded imitations of works by Russian avant-garde artists exceeded the number of originals. To such conclusion journalists publications ARTnews, which is July 7, 2009 will publish a report on the status of the Russian avant-garde in art market. Announcement of the material gives July 6 newspaper The New York Times.
Employees ARTnews in six months were asked art historians, art dealers, buyers in the United States, Russia, Germany, France and Spain. The report argues that many students of European galleries and auction houses paintings attributed to Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov and other artists certified by the analysis of public museums, but the originals while they are not. Most museums certify the authenticity of the paintings with unclear origin: for example, they emerged from a previously unknown private collections or were at one time the KGB confiscated.
The publication cites a report Infox.ru ARTnews: "Russia's buyers, who came to the market, its appearance caused a wave of imitations, which is much bigger than the production of fakes in the first half of 1990."
No figures on the number of counterfeit or examples of deals with fakes or Infox.ru, neither The New York Times does not lead.
(Lenta.ru)