Collectors are afraid to buy the antique salon

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Collectors afraid to buy the antique salon


Collector - "MK" : " true masterpiece I find in the garbage "

On Saturday , March 29 , CHA opens 36th Antique Salon . On it you can find hundreds of paintings, sculptures and other works of art - this time on antique week put their stuff more than 300 galleries. However, it is unlikely they will be able to sell a lot of work. In the collecting medium talk only about one - about fakes , which flooded the art market . "MK" visited the unofficial opening of the Salon , and knew what kind of mood prevails among collectors .

This year for the Antique Salon double anniversary . The first date is inherent in the salon - he knocked 20 years. The second - with the International Confederation of antique and art dealers (MKAAD ) this spring marking its 10th anniversary ( Salon initiated its creation ) . Formally, this is why a traditional press conference exhibition and sale held in a festive atmosphere increased : in the hall of DNA ( new House of Culture ) on the background of photographs taken over the years , his awards and opened champagne. Welcoming remarks said Deputy Culture Minister Gregory Ivleev and head compartment and MKAAD Vasily Bychkov , who led the ceremony , alternately called to the scene of museum staff and antique dealers , handing them commemorative certificates and statuettes and talked a lot about how the market became clearer during the Salon and the Confederation . This format allowed to avoid the issue of forgeries in the art market , which did not stop to talk to the arrest of the former employee of the Russian Museum , renowned expert Elena Basner . However, what has been said from the stage , still sounded in the margins .

After the completion of the official part , I talked to the collector who , for obvious reasons, would prefer not to advertise their name.

- You 're going to buy something at the Salon ?

- It is unlikely . These things I'm looking for the garbage that is in homes where they were kept quiet for decades and passed down from generation to generation. I try to buy from people who are not associated with an antique community. This is where all tied and can not vouch for the purity of things. I do not want to say that at the Salon all completely fake. I believe that the big things , the ones that are published in the catalog of the Salon , genuine. But the lower segment , cheap things , God knows who wrote it.

- That is not faith and members of the Confederation of antique or Guild of Appraisers ?

- Antique world is very narrow sphere , everything related to each other , so no. Credits - is subjective and better focus on those people whom you know for a long time and that sure. Have not developed an independent examination , which could be done without human intervention will always be a danger that you may vtyuhat fake. I personally collect recently , about seven years old, and I try to focus on their own feelings . One look at the work and feel that it stands for history, look at the other - and her emptiness. It comes with experience . When I started out, I bought a bunch of fakes. Now that is a little grown expert in this matter , I understand how to look for masterpieces.

- Do you think this will be a disaster Salon , no one will buy it?

- In fact, avid collectors , those who are truly sick gathering, never buy at the Salon . They are looking at and if they find something worthwhile , after the Salon turning into a gallery where noticed a good thing . I call those who buy at the Salon shopkeepers ... I mean, here buy only newcomers - shopkeepers, not related to art, who want to boast to friends or clients of the acquisition . In addition, the prices at the Salon often over-ambitious : it happens thing is worth five thousand, and sell it for 500 .

At first, informal , bottom Salon " shopkeepers " , of course, you will not find : on this day , by invitation only . On stands firmly hung paintings of the first magnitude - from Aivazovsky, Shishkin and Vereshchagin to Goncharova Feshina and Grigorieva ( on which the forgery as pierced Basner ) . Missing work and not too well-known artists . I went to one of the stands - look attracts a small (50 by 70 cm) Vereshchagin painting . Looks as if written yesterday : no craquelure ( cracks on the ink film ) or darkening , and the signature Big red discharged . Perhaps her specially restored to the Salon , but who knows . Picture is worth 400,000 rubles. Expert opinion , they say there is , but can not show it , "It's the owner , but he's not in place ." Large format paintings and estimated that more - a million, two or more. Understanding people before buying such masterpieces , of course, asked opinion on the authenticity and purity recheck paintings with their experts who do not work the first year. Experience taught unkind Andrey Vasilyev , who believed what the seller false Grigorieva .

But the public, which will be held at Salon not shopping , it will be interesting to see the special project exhibition. At this time he devoted to World War I, exactly one hundred years ago in the vast raging in Europe. The exhibition - the most interesting works of the Russian avant-garde. For example, tests with satirical posters and caricatures Mayakovsky Kazimir Malevich, Aristarchus Lentulova and David Burliuk . Album or the most expensive art market artist Natalia Goncharova , entitled " Mystical Images of War." We also present a unique book - album Alexander twisted " universe war . Kommersant " . In short, there is something to marvel at.

material: Maria Moskvicheva

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