Collecting and Collectibles

[Pavel]

Сообщение от tandem

And you do not invent and do not alter written -



If you were a collector, you know black space where collectors sell, exchange, communicate. And for them and us.
 And he took them to write about. than themselves never asked and do not engage.

Not out of malice, but out of haste. In that time and again that we have all these sales go underground and in a narrow range, so the prices can not be raised to world level. Also unfortunately collectors do not last forever and when they die their collections disappear, or at best turn into the gift, on which the family members who know all the burden of dragging her husband, at best, moral satisfaction.
In developed countries this existing public bidding, which were in the Union (12 chairs prodovali on such trades). This is what I am, only legal for sale in the auction achieves normal prices.
I really do not know and do not want to know its mechanism, we simply do not and I'm not a collector and do not intend to, but my problem is that collectors were more to make them easier and better, and that all the labors and hardships poured into material value of the collection.

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Сообщение от kr555

Pavel, yet there is this market has developed for several centuries. And here he has to actually regenerate from scratch, and with genetic memory that all that anyone ever could commandeer. It would be naive to expect that we now instantly arise all related infrastructure at the proper level, it is not the demand arose.
Well, not for the most valuable collections, and not particularly wealthy collectors have a hammer, there is, in principle, can sell anything if you do not expect to "buy up to 1 - has sold over 2" as an iron law. In the west, almost the same, inexpensive antiques market virtually monopolized by eBay, read a lot of groans of small shops on the subject.

I can not agree particularly with the gene memory. Before the revolution, the main buyer was the king. The rest just followed him and bought the remnants of what he bought. Fashion depends on taste the king, and UWC he was bad (opinion Kustodieva). Shchukin and Morozov had been an exception and for them to buy their thought witted, and I'm afraid at the time and you also did not buy it.
Other examples are many collections in the Union and with small Gollancz used by Rubens, Paris Petrov Vodkin, Korovin, etc., etc. It was not only the pairing with prices in the currency. Was your level of prices seems sopostovimy and the gift that is very corrupt museums especially the Tretyakov Gallery.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzranskiy

Well, what the poor can buy, for example, such a picture?
Hanger, 2005,
oil on canvas, 150cm x 120cm,
Price 5,033,600 USD.

At Drouot in one of the collections on 11 June, I noticed two -3 Tyshler, though it seemed to me svetlovatyh for the original, but I can be wrong.