Do we need and whether a Western-style auction in Russia

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In the next topic of discussion arose about the artists that auctions can be, if not a panacea , that some means of exit from that , quite frankly, APB condition in which there were professional artists after the collapse of the Union .

It seems that this promise is worth discussing .

So, what is a public sale ? This - agency activities. For it to be marketable , profitable requires two conditions : the independent and effective demand an independent offer things for this demand.

Is there any effective demand for artistic production in contemporary Russia ?

How can he be in a country where the gross domestic product (GDP ) per capita is variously estimated between Croatia and Malaysia, or between Latvia and Antigua and Barbuda.
In addition, this figure ( 17,700 dollars.) Does not reflect the structure of income . It is known that less than 0.5 %of Russia's population has more than 60 %of its wealth.

In Russia , in contrast to its neighbors to the west there was no tradition to decorate your life with original works of art. Did not have that in the Soviet Union .

The potential effective demand for mediation in the form of auctions negligible.

It is the same with an independent supply of things. Artifacts of time-tested , having the eyes of potential buyers of great value little by our nation's history , and offers current producers of artistic production is not profitable in the framework of public sales.

Generally mechanically transfer the experience of other countries on our soil unproductive business and even harmful . Not grow palm trees in our forests , and pineapple fields .
It is absurd to put to us in the auction business experience in France. The legacy of the material culture of Russia and France is not comparable . The number of millionaires France ranks first in Europe, if memory serves them there for more than two million.


We do not have yet the prerequisites for this kind of mediation . What, exactly, can be seen on the national practice . So far our auctions or imitation , or a parody of the Western .