"Gelos", antique-auction house

[gorelov]

Well, friends, grasp the valerian, here's a topic about Antique, Auction House Gelos " (" Gelos "Antiques and Auction House), I personally, unlike most of the antique business leaders, charming and likable, if only because that due to "Gelos" can not personally meet most of the local antiquarians, well, of course, on average, give 15%of the amount of the transaction well, okay for the sake of such cases.
There are of course at the doorsteps of "Gelos", for example, not a very good copy of the portrait "A peasant from Muscel" painter Nicolae Grigorescu is declared as:

Unknown Artist. "Portrait of a girl. Mid-twentieth century. Oil on canvas. 51h46, 5. Illegible signature on the left bottom.

Compare the attached copy and the original ... but still, "Gelos-force", clearly. And what he does not like figures of the market is unclear.

[ФАИв]

gorelov, Oh let it not the first they can not, but probably not the last.

[gorelov]

Сообщение от FAIv

gorelov, Oh let it not the first they can not, but probably not the last.

Well, it is understandable that many would say about the dubious authenticity of the works are sometimes encountered on "Gelos", but again, what kind of information known businessman Herman L. Sterligov informed about the features of evaluation of works of art at major auction:

Article "Herman Sterligov: PR and hero Plowshare", based on the newspaper "Kommersant" and "Today", 2007: "And here, in the settlement, everything is always different: the same pig twice alike never zakolesh. I have a tractor DT-75, worth 1.6 million rubles, with many things that are the same, but only in dollars, much less useful than this tractor. I had a painting by Malevich, I sold it for more than $ 1.5 million to the gallery in Hamburg, but compared to the DT-75 is shit! "It is true that in the early 90's I took myself its literally for pennies. Kandinsky, I was generally a whole pile. At one time they came to me couple well-known art and suggested: "Come on we'll assemble a collection, you'll be buying pictures on our recommendation, then sell any - the entire collection to pay back. And it did . I fuck knows how many artworks bought, then sold one - all rescued. One Malevich had three pieces, this big, and every detail, watercolors different, I do not even consider. As long as the same Malevich carried on auctions at the same Sotheby's, I realized: there is just all bought and sold, until the opinions of experts. And prices well established. They say: 100 thousand for this work, we will immediately give a certificate. "

Interestingly, the director of the Russian office of Sotheby's, Sotheby's Russia "does not deny the fact of his acquaintance with Sterligov and remembers him as follows:

Article "Mikhail Kamensky: Malevich - our symbol of faith, it should be Russia's", newspaper "Kommersant» № 197 (4014) on 29.10.2008: Russian has never been the buyers of Malevich's auction market, although repeatedly bought his work in other ways. I'm not even talking about the "Black Square" of oddly out-of collection of the bankrupt Inkombank, which Potanin bought for the Hermitage. The collection includes one of the first Russian millionaires Herman Sterligov were two works by Malevich from Peter - a picturesque "Two Peasant Women in the background field and watercolor" Head of a Peasant, "passed from the widow of prominent Soviet-era Moscow collector Jacob Evseyevich Rubinstein. Winter 1992 Sterligov asked me to look at these things and express their views about the authenticity and price. In the frosty Saturday morning, he sent me a huge black jeep, which frightened the neighbors. A few minutes at breakneck speed, we domchalis to his office in the Leninsky Prospect. The ceiling of the cabinet Sterligov was riddled with bullets. It turns out he had a habit to shoot at the ceiling of a gun. And in the center of this tyrant is afraid of standing on a chair "Two Peasant Women in the background of the field. After that I did Sterligova nor his Malevich never met.

By the way, drew attention to the phrase "Malevich - this is our faith, and it should be Russia, which just will not think that would sell ishing, we all know that the creed of most antique dealers are a dollar sign ($), but not with the squares of Malevich or whatever. In this sense, community is not behind Russian designers who even Putin and the CBR got acquainted with his faith - the sign of the ruble.

[dedulya37]

Сообщение от gorelov

Compare the attached copy and the original ...

Not going to talk about the similarities or differences, my attitude to the copies (counterfeits) uniquely, but the purely visual to me more like the girl depicted in the work of Gelos. I think that her face is more Slavic in contrast to the original, which I see the features of the eastern type. I do not know why, but the eye to look nicer on the first portrait. That such an opinion.

[gans]

Сообщение от dedulya37

purely visual to me more like the girl depicted in the work of Gelos

Yes nicer.

[gorelov]

I say that spending thousands of dollars on every Sotheby's, a good job for three thousand of "Gelos" Even better than the original.

[Тютчев]

Сообщение от dedulya37

I will not talk about the similarities or differences, my attitude to the copies (counterfeits) uniquely, but the purely visual to me more like the girl depicted in the work of Gelos. I think that her face is more Slavic in contrast to the original, which I see the features of the eastern type. I do not know why, but the eye to look nicer on the first portrait. Here is an opinion.

    
In terms of painting is nothing to even compare. More Slavic appearance ???!!! : D this is what you do not understand? About Slavs exactly what you say?

[dedulya37]

Tjutchev, much as I explained, you still do not understand, because you are standing in a priori pose a boxer waiting for a blow or a dirty trick.
I assure you, in this work, I do not care about the level of painting and its author. Criterion one - I like it more than a museum.
It is appropriate to say a phrase that is so fond of artists: "I see so."
Yes, I see the first of more than Slavic appearance than the second.
In the second girls are more slanting eyes and a little puffy cheeks, which is typical for women closer to Asia.
Sight expresses some kind of trick, to which only women are capable.
At first a person trusts, life wisdom, if you will, readiness for any life woes. She looks calm and safe.

If you arrange, more on this topic will not talk. Laziness.

[Тютчев]

Сообщение от dedulya37

Tjutchev, much as I explained, you still do not understand, because you are standing in a priori pose a boxer waiting for a blow or a dirty trick.

    So why, I understood everything, you good-looking girl with a fake picture. Right? But the fact is that the Slavs are different, so your words cut ear. A major impact on the specials and you catch it. Perhaps I have evolved a reaction thanks to your efforts. As they say, live with wolves ... or here's another - you reap what you sow, choose any proverb.

[dedulya37]

Сообщение от Tjutchev

live with wolves ...

No, my friend. As the wolf nor the feed, it is still an elephant's nose .. thicker. : D