Exhibition of counterfeits of the greatest Russian artists will be held in Moscow

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Exhibition of counterfeits of the greatest Russian artists will be held in Moscow


04/12/2012 14:23. MOSCOW, April 12 - RIA Novosti.

Exhibition "Masterpieces of forgery or N /A", which proved to show fake works by Russian artists of the largest middle of the XIX - early XX century, opens at the Museum "Home icon in Spiridonovka" April 18, RIA Novosti reported in its press-service.
The founder of the museum, a businessman Igor Vozyakov decided this summer to hold an exhibition of paintings by Russian artists, acquired by him in the early 1990s. Before it was decided to conduct an independent examination, despite the fact that the paintings were accompanied by the conclusions of their authenticity and authorship.
As RIA Novosti was told in the museum, found that nine out of 15 pictures are fakes. Among them - "Sea battle" by Ivan Aivazovsky, "The guests arrived," Nicholas Roerich, "The Dance of Swords" Henry Semiradsky and "ship at the pier," Alexei Bogolyubov. All of them are like clarified the agency interlocutor, were purchased in Russia.
Now, all fabrics, accompanied by conclusive plan to show, along with four icons, which also turned out to be counterfeit.
So again, the exhibition organizers want to raise the issue of fakes on the market of Russian art, which often occurred in recent years. Development contributed to this story is now finished its existence catalog "Warning: may be a fake," which published information about the controversial works of art. It was published under the auspices of the now defunct Rosokhrankultura and its foundation is unknown details about the paintings of western masters that have been issued for the works of Russian scammers painting and sold on the Russian domestic market or on the international auction for a price many times higher than their real value.
Experts believe that the proportion of counterfeit works of Russian art ranges from a quarter to three-fourths of the total market share of this segment of the art.
Most loud in this sense was the situation with the painting "Odalisque" by Boris Kustodiev, which at Christie's auction for 2.9 million dollars in 2005 became an entrepreneur Viktor Vekselberg. The examination made in Russia, showed that the canvas is not painted by Kustodiev. The case went to the London High Court, where it is considered so far.
In addition, last year there were editions in Europe ", Natalia Goncharova," Anthony Parton, and "Natalia Goncharova: her art between tradition and modernity," Denise Bazetu, where, according to the largest specialist art the most expensive Russian artist, included a large number of fakes for further legalization them on the art market.
Exhibitions fakes with great success all over the world: for example, in 2010 at London's Victoria and Albert Museum was organized by the British police show with hundreds of dubious works of art attributed to Chagall, Giacometti, and Hockney. And in the Detroit Institute of Arts, the exhibition "Imitations, counterfeits, riddles," dedicated to the study of the mysteries of fraud and error in the attribution of works of art. On it, for example, you could see the "Holy," for some time attributed to Botticelli's close to his real work - "Risen Christ".
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The exhibition "Masterpieces of fraud" will be opened in the "House of the icon"
 
The collector Igor Vozyakov
Photo: Alexander Yalovoy /Kommersant
The exhibition, which plans to open a Moscow museum-gallery "house icon", promises to be quite spectacular. It will be presented to a dozen major works of Russian artists who find themselves forgeries. Pictures come from the collection of the founder of the "House of the icon" collector, philanthropist and businessman Igor Vozyakova and they were purchased in the early 1990s, all the paintings have expertise, confirming their authenticity.

When carrying out re-examination in 2011 (it did independent research expertise to them. P. Tretyakov) found that painting by Ivan Aivazovsky's "Sea Battle", by Nicholas Roerich, "guests arrived," Boris Kustodiev "Girl in a birch grove" Konstantin Korovin's "View of Moscow" Alexey Bogolyubov's "The ship at the pier," Lev Lagorio "ship to the shore," and others - fakes

Cultural heritage
Why are auctions on the Internet and on TV have an incentive sales of fakes ...
Igor Vozyakov decided to put them in the "House of the icon" along with old and new examinations, so it will be clear that the expert reports supporting and refuting the authenticity of the same paintings, signed by the same experts. The organizers do not doubt that this will once again draw attention to the situation in the Russian art market, where a fake, according to different opinions, ranging from one to three-quarters of its volume.

Tatiana Markina

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