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Сообщение от uriart

God!
You at least one person in the list of collectors found a poor?
Not to mention the word poor.
So who can afford to collect works of art!
Art does not belong to the people, as when you wrote back Ulyanov-Lenin.
Art belongs to the elite and not the masses. The masses Give pop. And they (the masses) of happiness UPI ---- Xia
And Finance - the main factor creating collections!
And you try to create a collection without money?
Thought they would receive?

You know, collectors of unofficial art in the 60-70-ies. - Grobman, Talochkin, Rusanov, Nutovich, Carpenter-Zabusov - were far from rich people, they just can say, devoted his life to collecting, became friends with artists, and they gave them their jobs or inferior to a very low price. One example: learning that one artist is leaving the USSR, Talochkin, who at that time the ruble was not a tinker, took the money in debt, came and bought about 20 paintings, which are now in the Museum of Other Art.

You can also call Mikhail Ershov, which it did not have huge funds in the 90-ies. collected a very large and rich kollekktsiyu.
Of course, the situation has changed, but I think that the secret of success - trust your taste and buy as soon as possible. Thus, the risk to which the collector is inversely proportional to the means necessary to compile a good collection.
I think also that the purchase of young artists who have not yet received wide publicity, more worthy, than to buy pictures of artists who have hyped others))

I would add: from the present collector Igor Markin differs from the current "collector with unlimited funds" that he bought many artists, when they were still unclaimed.