Auction house Christie's has opened an office in Moscow

[Boeing]

MI6 veteran retired in Russia was transferred, otherwise the logic in appointing him to do, it megarynok Impressionists, in Russian it is not marred. Brad ....

[KaterinaMN]

Сообщение от dedulya37

Maroussia, well you must admit, he liked you!

Yes, and I liked ))) sipaaaatichny ))

[LCR]

Сообщение от Maroussia

Vladimir!
Your response indicates that Stevenson did not write anything, or you just about do not know? Or do you think that Christies designated "financial manager", nothing about art?

Maroussia

There are critics who "have not written anything, with a solid reputation of people" who understand the art (Grashchenkov, writing, as you know, with great difficulty, from the present - Bazhanov, Erofeev - the list goes on ad infinitum)
On the other hand, there are people who are constantly writing about art, which at all desire it is difficult to say that they are in it to understand anything (then I, with your permission, I will not give lists )

To sum up: among art historians are people with a brilliant pen, others - talented speakers, but there are still experts, experts who do not write or speak, but which do not also impossible.

[Игорь Гурьев]

Сообщение от LCR

Grashchenkov, who wrote, as you know, with great difficulty

That's right.
But while the old man was sure that he wrote an exemplary manner, and advised his graduate students to take an example from him.

The only readable the text - the preface to the book ... um ... what is it? "The Art of the Northern Renaissance", a black like that.

And, remember, Otto Benes.

[Konstantin]

Сообщение от Maroussia

Your response indicates that Stevenson did not write anything, or you just about do not know? Or do you think that Christies designated "financial manager", knows nothing about art?

We have not tested Stevenson's knowledge of art . We were interested in practical things, namely:
- If someone wants to sell the painting at Christie's, if he can deliver work in the Moscow office?
- If after purchasing any doubt in the picture, is it possible to solve the problem with the Moscow office?
In other words try to understand the breadth of authority.

Answers esteem in an interview

[leonard]

England is not a bad country. With a sufficiently enlightened monarchy, despite the Cali South.
(Linga Purana states that in Cali, the South thieves become kings, and kings will be no better than thieves. Kings will take away property from citizens, and to give public property, they will cease to be the guardians and protectors).
But they all believe, as something less than worthy, may be right ...

[Konstantin]

Add to complete the picture that the South Cali began 5000 years ago, and will last another 400-odd thousand years. So we can not bathe separately.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от Konstantin

400-odd thousand years.

427 000 years precisely.

[Евгений]

International auktsionnny house Christie's has opened a new office in Moscow and appointed the head of its Russian office. They became Matthew Stevenson, a graduate of London's Kings College with an academic degree in medieval and modern history, who had previously replied to Christie's auction in London for "The Art of Impressionism and Modernism." Matthew STEVENSON talked TATIANA Markin.

- Christie's is present in Russia for a long time. But the market situation has changed dramatically. What are the new plans for the Russian Mission and policy towards the Russian region as a whole?

- Christie's ties with Russia a long history. In recent years, Christie's had spent about 15 exhibitions. We are confident that today the most opportune time, in order to open its representative office in Moscow, which provides an ideal platform for working with clients. On account of this 54-second office of Christie's in 31 countries. Certainly, I think the Moscow office of another, and as a center from which will be working with clients from other countries, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan and so on. We will make every exhibition accompanied with a series of open lectures held by our experts. We are planning to skip the Russian audience only the best. At the earliest opportunity, we will continue this tradition - most likely it will happen closer to fall.

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- Is it true that now the number of transactions conducted in private, has increased, and whether this activity is the auction house a priority for the Russian Mission? What is today the ratio of private and public sales?

- Increase the share of private transactions - is an international phenomenon. Last year the total revenue on the basis of private sales at Christie's totaled $ 400 million, but today the trend is such that the outstanding works of art rather get at a public auction than selling privately. Take, for example, canvas by Pablo Picasso's "Nude on a background of green leaves and bust" in 1932. This portrait of the artist's mistress Marie-Therese Walter from the private collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody was not available to the public for the past 50 years, and it will be for the evening auction "Art of impressionism and modernism" May 4, 2010 in New York. Same thing can be said about the painting by Edvard Munch "Abundance" - she gets to the auction.

- In what areas of the art market is focused interest of the Russian buyers?

- With respect to auctions, for example, the recent auction "Art of Impressionism and Modernism," which took place in London in February 2009, about 30%of buyers were from Russia and CIS countries. In addition, Russian collectors have demonstrated a considerable demand for Russian art, the works of old masters, jewelry, works of arts and crafts, as well as work in the midrange, which have traditionally exhibited at the London auction Christie's, taking place in South Kensington. Today, these trades the number of new clients from Russia increases substantially.

- Before the crisis, Russian clients are often buying the top lots from various categories. Today, these people prefer to buy the product cheaper?

- Changed the approach of Russian collectors. Their preferences have become more specific, but despite this, these masterpieces will still continue to enjoy strong demand from buyers from Russia and CIS countries. Despite the crisis, these buyers did not leave the market, as many expected. They continue to actively participate in the auction and buy the best. That is why now the best time to establish closer contacts with the Russian customers.

- When you first became acquainted with Russia and with Russian art?

- It happened about 20 years ago, when I visited Moscow and St. Petersburg. I was amazed at the variety of works exhibited in the Russian museums, and it was then I realized that I wanted to study art.

- Do you have some sort of a favorite work of Russian art?

- Yes, it's "Demon" Vrubel. This work, which is very closely linked to European pictorial tradition. I was always attracted creative Moreau, and when I first saw the "Demon", I was amazed.