Let's fake?

[uriart]

Yes, GALLERIES, agree!
But not antique stores!

[Meister]

then the question arises, and exactly what you are selling. I understand antique shops do not sell anything more expensive than 10-30 thousand dollars. Then it should not be on the recognized masters ... and no fakes while talking about?

[Vladimir]

Tver district court in Moscow sentenced the owner of the gallery "Russian Collection" Transfiguration Tatiana and her husband Igor Transfiguration to 9 and 8.5 years in strict regime colony, respectively. The couple were charged with selling forged paintings, stealing a figure painter Konstantin Makovsky and tax evasion amounting to 4.7 million rubles.

The court also decided to recover from the convicted 21.6 million rubles. in favor of the claim of the victim - a co-owner of the company "Elex Polus" Valeria Uzzhina.

Transfiguration found guilty on st.159 (fraud committed by an organized group of especially large size), st.164 (theft of items of artistic and historic value), st.199 (tax evasion) of the Criminal Code.

The court was told that the couple bought the five paintings of the Nordic and Western European artists who deliberately changed their story, forged the author's signature, then sold them to W. Uzzhinu, issuing a Kiselev linens and Orlovsky. A total of Transfiguration received from B. Uzzhina 730 thousand dollars for the pictures, they acquired a much smaller amount.

In addition, the gallery owners were found guilty of stealing from the victim a picture of Konstantin Makovsky acquired last for 30 thousand dollars is also T. Transfiguration, served as CEO of the gallery "Russian Collection", was found guilty of tax evasion totaling approximately 4.7 million rub.

[Selene]

Сообщение от Meister

And my sincere dream that these galleries were as much as possible ...

Alas, the dream of a perfect market will not soon be realized: (.

[Meister]

Selene, the main thing to believe in the beautiful)

[Selene]

Meister, I have no reason to doubt your word that there are galleries that have suffered casualties, but fundamentally not sell outright fakes. It is obvious that you know on the subject more. But I can not believe that these business organizations, (conditionally them can be designated as bona fide members of the market), in all cases, denied the pleasure in the realization of works in question.

[Meister]

Selene, these galleries can be counted on the fingers, but believe me they will not sell the work, even doubt, they simply will not buy such a thing. In this they build their reputation. The logic is simple: well, they sell fake client, he learns, and never to them would not come, and everyone will talk about that ... logical, right? Why should they need it. They are selling their belongings, are responsible for them, and I think this is the only correct approach. Sales wrong things can be just out of ignorance, but then must return the correct gallery means the client. actually a good idea to introduce such a law.

[Selene]

: D Laws, that is. And, as practice showed, they can work (case Preobrazhensky). Apparently, the buyers themselves are unwilling to disclose that they were swindled. Afraid of losing money (may be problems with the execution of judicial decisions in terms of recovery of funds), reputation, and therefore tend rather to quietly dispose of the subject of another hapless collector-investor.
By the way, if not hard, throw me in the names of those wonderful galleries of which you write, you can lichku. I promise I will keep your secret.

[Евгений]

Selene, Why secretly? http://artinvestment.ru/ most normal galleries.

[Selene]

Thanks for the recommendation, take into account.