Ten most valuable items in Ukraine

[SergeiSK]

Top of the most expensive works of art in Ukraine.
For the most part it consists of paintings by old masters of the state museums. But private collectors have something to show. Although many of these paintings - only investments and they do not flaunt their purchase.
In Ukraine there is a statue of the most expensive modern sculptor - Alberto Giacometti, photograph the most expensive photographer - Andreas Gursky, and collectors of Russian avant-garde enough. "In Ukraine, several dozens of collectors, whose collection is Picasso and Matisse, and a number of famous names. Given the fact that the world of serious collectors of contemporary art pimerno 300 people, then we can be proud of ", - concludes the art, the gallery owner Ludmila Berezinskaya.

1. The most valuable painting in the Ukraine, critics say "Portrait of the Infanta Margarita", written by Diego Velazquez. The cloth is kept in Kiev Museum of Art named after Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko and costs approximately $ 10 million According to critics, the canvas is stored in Kiev - etude, sketch, from which then draw a big picture of the pompous. In 1912 Kiev collector Bogdan Khanenko bought the painting in Berlin on the sale of the collection of the Hamburg Consul Weber.

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2. The most expensive statue in Ukraine is in the collection of businessman Igor Voronov - "Shape" Alberto Giacometti. At the "Grand Salon sculpture-2009", which took place in Ukrainian House, it was estimated at approximately $ 10 million, about how Giacometti was in Kiev, Ravens prefer not to talk. But in one interview with Spear's, he confessed: "The price - a relative concept. I'm always confused when asked about it. Some things just get to buy cheap: it happens that the owner of a subject in urgent need of money. You just need to know these people and make sure that they, too, you know. "
3. In 1620, the French nobleman persuaded the lender to add at least a few small coins to the loan. And not lose. After four centuries, a handful of louis turned into a $ 5 million, however, it is not the real deal, but a realist painting by Georges de Latour "moneylenders", which is located in the Lviv Art Gallery, and its current value. Itself is a masterpiece has undergone even more surprising turn. Two centuries of this paper attributed the brush Dutchman van Honthorst. Painting wandered through the galleries until he finally turned in Lviv. And in the middle of last century, experts have questioned the authorship of the Hermitage. Cloth thoroughly investigated, and infrared rays revealed the signature of this author Latour. Now we know no more than fifty of his works, and only nine worth it flourish.
4. Titian Vechellio put on a par with such Renaissance masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. And to touch the magic of his canvases, does not necessarily go to the Louvre. In the Lviv Art Gallery is stored "Portrait of a Man", in the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art - "Portrait of a Venetian Doge Girolamo Priuli (at the time of repair - in storage).
5. In Feodosia art gallery is a whole armada of masterpieces - 417 paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky. However, and this collection homeland seascape - a drop in the sea. During his life Avazovsky wrote about 6,000 paintings.
The most valuable painting Theodosia Museum - "Among the waves," the artist wrote it for two years before his death, at the peak of his fame. According to experts, the cost of cloth - $ 3 million
6. The collection of People's Deputy Oleksandr Feldman, according to experts - more than 1500 artworks: paintings and modern art, and very rare instances. As told in the press service Alexander B., the most expensive work is called "Praying Jew by Marc Chagall," Oriental Landscape "brush Chaim Soutine, and" Portrait of a Woman "Moïse Kisling. Their Alexander Feldman bought from collectors in Europe. For how much - not advertised, but experts estimate each of them less than $ 1 million And the artists themselves belong to the first echelon of the Russian masters.
7. «St George with scenes from his life" - this is one of the most rare and valuable icons in our country. She wrote in XI-XII century. This is one of the few examples of Byzantine relief icons - the figure of the saint and scenes from his life carved from wood and then painted. How to tell members of the National Art Museum, which houses the work, getting an icon on the auction, its price would be about $ 2 million is now the shrine is kept in the museum.
8. B 1968 Dnipropetrovsk Museum of Art bought the painting for 20 rubles. Although some painting? Two dirty old boards, which scarcely visible image of a woman with a string of pearls. They brought a man - would help out a pretty penny. But when the restorer began to wash away dirt and found something that would be envied by any gallery of the world: the inscription: "Rembrandt, 1630. How is the work of Dutch painter was in the East of Ukraine, a mystery.
The picture is stored in the museum, and only occasionally arranged exhibition of one painting, "This year, its audience will be experts from the Netherlands - they want to confirm or refute the authenticity of Portrait of a Woman. His estimate of $ 2 million
9. The most expensive piece of jewelry in Ukraine - Kiev Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine. This - The Scythian pectoral, pectoral king nomads IV century BC. Oe. It was made of gold, 958 tests, its weight - 1150 g, diameter - 30,6 cm Pektoral was found at the excavation of barrow Thick Tomb in 1971. About such things say: the highest degree of uniqueness. Nothing like no other museum in the world. The insured value of the pectoral - $ 2 million
10. This constellation of big names, like Demen Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Mariko Mori, Antony Gormley, as they say in "Pinchuk Art Centre, there is only them. Ostensibly a collection of Victor Mikhailovich there and "The Golden Calf" Demena Hirst. At London's Sotheby's for a bull with a gold disc above his head in the aquarium of formaldehyde buyer, who asked not to publicize his name, paid $ 18.7 million, but the press-service "Pinchuk Art Center" does not comment. But recognize that the collection is one of three options fotopolotna Andreas Gursky "99 cents", although the purchase price were not disclosed. But experts say that photographs of one of the most expensive in the world - the twin image at Sotheby's sold for $ 3.3 million

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insurance value of the pectoral - $ 2 million

About a year ago on the TV showed an interview with director of "Golden Treasury", which houses the pectoral, with his words, the estimated value of this thing about 900 million dollars ...