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All greetings from Maastricht! I here I go many years, but such a concentration of people has never happened before: to get inside, I stood in line for twenty minutes! Organizers - handsome, have tried. Imagine: you walk into the room and find yourself in a corridor of approximately 50 to 100 m, whose walls are twenty feet high composed of cut heads, white and pink roses, the smell almost knocked the legs, and further in all directions of the road from the red and white terry tulips.
First impression: nothing has changed, the number of participants has grown, many years, there has traditionally been divided into four sections: the art of the twentieth century, old masters, and yuvelirka section, which includes ancient art, Egyptian affairs, Oceania, Africa, etc. In this year added a new section -- design. Total area of eye - about 20 of our antique shops, maybe less, but the level of exhibitors is so high that it simply takes to the skies.
Mood - the most optimistic, almost all have something to sell, talk about the crisis only in subjunctive mood. Prices - completely pre-crisis, perhaps even higher, at least, I do not recall that earlier for small-sized gouaches Rouault asked for 400 000 euros, a decent Lanskoy - 160 000, good Chagall gouache - 1 250 000. I tried to bargain for a couple of things - to fail, do not give discounts. Unfortunately, it is forbidden to photograph, so I can not make you happy with factual material, especially some examples of contemporary art, which is markedly increased.
I'll try tomorrow to get some pictures of Koi, although I do not know what will happen.