And the market for paintings in recent years shlopnulsya, and not just because of the crisis. And because of the first camp, art lovers, already have everything and they do not need anything. Pyotr Aven, the largest player has collected almost all of what I wanted. And although at the last Sotheby's and he bought a sculpture Vrubel four times more expensive than the estimate, strictly speaking, a cash auction houses, he no longer does. Viktor Vekselberg, after never finished the trial with Christie's for Kustodiev generally disappointed in the old art and drew the eye with the lyrics back into physics. Incidentally, in the days of the auction all of his brothers, responsible for art, was grazed in London. Shalva Breus, rivaling the Avenue of Vrubel and Petrov-Vodkin, too, changed course and plunged into contemporary art.
These people are commanded in the market, but they have met the specified movements and now lazily pick. And so sensational buy now mostly random. For example, last year, Vladislav Doronin bought for 2.6 million pounds of "black women" as a gift Goncharova Naomi Campbell - a fact somehow escaped the gossip columns. This year too, the Negro work, and also bought Goncharova is not it: a player struggling with himself auction house Christies, it gradually pulled higher and higher, sucking the money, so you want to kristievskoy statements. Short of the bottom up (but high) estimate, phone player out there and cast - like himself get out ....
But the situation on the market were a major influence Ukrainians. They are gaining painting on large sums. The second most expensive lot of the "Russian Week» (£ 1,874,069), "View of the island of Valaam. Kukk Ivan Shishkin Suslyansky beat the dealer, and, presumably, he beat for the Kiev oligarch Adamovskij. Apparently, the purchase was not just necessary, but very necessary. This picture kind. Certainly, the highest, highest quality, but ... Düsseldorf, not Russian, and not Ukrainian - German School. No sun among the pine trees, no grass or dunes of the Gulf, not Russia. But the fact that there are - the German "top five"!
Following the gathering, who quit the Titans went and decline among dwarf oligarchs. Here, for example, Aven bought propaganda porcelain - and after him, as a leader, dragged people. But here's the leader went on another course - and immediately jumped to this topic and others. Maybe that's why a great service metrostroevsky Dulevo plant, which in the thirties was taken to Kaganovich, went for just 10,000 pounds. A year ago, would have gone over 100 thousand, or even over 200.
Or, say, the military plates. The main skeet a year ago was listed Madame Baturin. But - so there is no other, and are far away. As a consequence, the military plates issued under Nicholas I (they are always highly valued), the most absurd manner, and not sold for 12,000 pounds. While at Baturina like good zoomed and £ 90,000, and £ 100 000.
volley of Katyusha
So whatever shaky or staggering, and all passed, if not a volley of auction MacDougall's. Sluggish depression London auction blew our Katyusha.
So, in order. What is an auction MacDougall's? It has emerged recently. "Muddied" from scratch. The owners - couple McDougall. Makdugalll himself - reportedly a former tax executive officer of the City of London. They say that his wife is an active Russian Katyusha (externally - Little Russian real farmer, but by descent from Moscow) tightly placed it under his heel. Kate McDougall very buildable, spinning like a bee. Actually, her and keeps the whole business. And here's the finishing touches to a portrait of Mrs McDougall: gossip, that when she lived in America, then engaged in women's boxing. And this is in fact fighting vehicle and reckless fighter. Catherine McDougall undermines the work and Cristie's, and Sotheby's, she takes all and at prices that her rent. Her approach to the auction business - an approach junk shop: everything for all tastes and a lot. As a result, the number of lots it exceeds both the famous auction houses put together.
Spouses McDougall oriented on Russian art and parallel to the unwind of Jewish artists, which is also extremely profitable topic. And so, therefore, Nikolai Feshin. Beautiful Russian portraitist. Favorite pupil of Repin. He worked mainly in America. In the spring of this year's "Little Cowboy" sold at Doyle New York. Work beat (yeah not dislodged) Mihman businessmen and Schlager (from Cologne), was beaten for yourself, not by request, but apparently, in order to further speculation. The work went for half a million dollars, but after six months its price has reached ten million. Media immediately announced a sensation. These players shrugged and said: "It is dangerous to walk", referring to Catherine McDougall.
How could this happen? What a fool to pay for Feshina costs Rothko? The official version of the auction house: just got rein under the tail a couple of customers. It happens, locked in the heat of. Something similar happened when three years ago, Peter Aven, grappled for a sculpture of Nijinsky authorship Helen Danko from the collection of Chaliapin. The departure was given a £ 30 000, and the sculpture went for £ 320,000, nearly half a million dollars, ten times more expensive than the estimate. But half a million dollars - not ten. And Danko little, and Feshina bulk.
Nicholas Feshin - a favorite artist of Americans. He has worked in America, and most of his works are there. At the moment 1.5 million dollars - red price for this artist. As it became known to Gazeta.ru, about the same amount was commissioned by Americans for Feshina and antiquarian Khochinsky that due to "restricted to travel to Russia is now doing business in America, Europe and Japan. I repeat: a half million - an honest price for Feshina, but buy it for ten! In Russia, such a "feshinista" no. Over 10 million dollars to buy Rothko, for whom there are always market demand, it is an absolute Investment. Collectors of old art - the people more than the wealthy - the state to win a dashing nineties and they do not tend to dissipate. Buy ten that, even for five in the coming decade does not sell - an act worthy of self-denial. Therefore, it is absurd for sale and alerted the people "in the subject, discussing the sidelines of that sensational sale Feshina - literate production.
Trades are always more and the art of spreading room. The hall at St James's Street could see a little performance. Leading role in it sang Senior Specialist hilling Tatar oligarchs Eldar Galeev, his friend (also from Kazan), Catherine McDougall, and an unknown gentleman who was nervous and upset.
Thus, an unknown gentleman sitting in a room with a phone at the ear and apparently served as the client's order to finish up a specific amount. Mr Galeev also worked with the phone with someone outside the room: he twitched, retold, put up, grabbed her again. Catherine McDougall herself too and waved his head, and the tube. Another important character emerged after the end of the auction: it was a dealer Natalia Kournikova, who usually hits for Ernst, earlier beat for Kostina, and also with a tube in the ear. True, it does not move, and her eyes are not twitching. If all the honest brothers ran with tubes in his ears - it means, someone very interested in what's going on in this picture.
When Feshin finally beaten off, there was Eldar Galeev. And, although now he has been killed, an art dealer Alexander Khochinsky (previously sworn friend, and later arch-enemy Ernst - do not share the picture) shouted: "You can congratulate the sale?" In response, the dealer was confused, coughed and jerked off somewhere . Think about it: everyone saw that picture he took no Galeyev - killed his bid. And yet, Khochinsky, which is always most everything has to be, congratulating it Galeeva.
A few days fans of the beautiful and wonderful traders discussed version of the incident.
Version One, staged
About MacDougall's rumored that: Katyusha sells everything and then some things for some reason, find themselves in their places. But here we can not absolutely say about the production with sales. After all, it is also possible that they actually sell, and they then do not pay for your purchase.
Nevertheless, the first voiced in the same bar Lendsboro version was: bidding on Feshin - statement. The auction took someone to rent now, played the show to break Christie's and Sotheby's. So sometimes done at the auctions. This version was quickly ruled out: the amount for the fictitious sale is too large, therefore, too large an auction prize. Although, if not stingy, it gives megareklamu.
Not in favor of this version and the fact that in the case of highly publicized sale of a broad pattern of eight years altogether disappear from circulation. Sell it and can not stand again - too much "pale."
Consideration could be given an artificial version of the show is the price at Feshina. Then in the resale would be interested in a man whose glut Feshin and who wants to get rid of it. In the world of contemporary art in this case deliberately put up for auction and resell the artist himself, to wind the story of artist sales. But in the old art of all this cranking harder: you must first lobby exhibit, for example, in the Russian museum, make it a PR company to release a catalog show at the central channels. So did, for example, Baranov-Rossine because one does not get off the resale here. Anything like this before selling Feshina not observed, and a person suffering from overstocking Feshin, secular science are not known. And because this version we brushed.
In addition, the counterfeit sale to lift shares in their company - it is certainly punishable, it is fraud. In the Russian Auction business is very difficult to prove the wiring. In England - is another matter, because there may verify receipt of payment for the purchase, who pays and how. And if money is not received on account of the auction house, may also raise questions: do not pay? Why?
second version, Tatar
Who may want to thrash itself investment is not attractive and not the most hyped artist to the end, to no reason, but the winning price? Only someone who buys it for the sacred person of the emperor. Only in this case is "we'll stand to pay the price." Who from the sacred person can be impatient Feshin? Collectors and dealers for several days in one voice argued that the painting was beaten for the main Tatar - Mintimer Shaimiev.
It might be this: Khan explained, they say, there is such Feshin, all America with him mad, good to very expensive and well-known artist of Tatarstan to hang you. Khan wanted to. And then the president of some "Nefttaty" may instruct the dealer to buy this painting is by all means - you can not deny the man who made his multimultikom. (Note "Gazety.Ru: multimillionaire.) Price suddenly shoots up to heaven, but it's just a situation where we can not say" no. " And only in this case can be crazy to peel.
The price for such deals, soars to the heavens, of course, not just so, and as a result of insider information, which goes something like this: the old man wants a picture, would beat up the victory. Then sit down in the hall two men who for a couple of spins the price of the painting.
This version is called the primary, it tended to the majority of respondents "Gazetoy.Ru" dealers and collectors. But by the end of the week and it came off. We contacted various experts hilling Tatarstan old art and got quite a convincing answer: "If the old man wanted a picture, he would have got it so easily, and is not alien to us a cowboy, and a normal kid Kazan: Kazan Feshin much anyone on the choice was without effort. " "No, it's not Mintimer" - said close to the elite people of Tatarstan.
Version of the third, lohovskaya:
That it is now shared by Forbes, and art speculators. Unknown nervous guy in the room was not a stool pigeon, and a representative of this buyer. Upper limit to which it will be lifted, came to be known to interested parties. Here's how commented on this situation is one of the market participants:
"So, one Mr. H. Feshina decided to buy at any price! The reason? It does not matter. For the beauty of the story - for his girlfriend (example Doronin, also pay a huge sum). He or his representative in the hall or on the phone will go "to the bitter end." But there is no other Bidder - and there is no record. Without the insider does not happen, the leak disk imaging - something common and mundane ends - pumping the additional amounts. "
If so, MacDougall's playing with fire. "Shakes Mazu", as they say in the margins. And maybe sooner or later run into a rusty nail.
Bozena Rynska
http://www.gazeta.ru/column/rynska/3464817.shtml 
14.12.2010, 22:12
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