Collectors

[fross]

Сообщение от Vladimir

I found an interesting site - a collection of Igor Tsukanova. http://tsukanov-art-collection.ru/pictures.html Return left many top lots of auctions on nonconformists.

A Goncharova from his website in the booklet of the upcoming Sotheby's auction (4 page), what would it mean?

[Vladimir]

I am encouraged by the process itself - that large collections are in varying degrees, more public. In an information sense. And it will pull an exhibition, the emergence of new collectors (they train each other often look), Issue directories, start research work in their collections. Symptoms of the process, gaining force, is no longer enough: the album "His circle of" Alexander Kronik (with scientific apparatus), forthcoming album with scientific apparatus for gathering Bondarenko, site Tsukanova and so on.

[ABC]

Сообщение от fross

A Goncharova from his website in the booklet of the upcoming Sotheby's auction (4 page), what would it mean?

A Pirosmani on McDougal summer, http://www.macdougallauction.com/

[iside]

I came across an interesting article about collectors. looked like at the forum was not.

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Collecting - not only serious financial component of the contemporary art market. And that in itself - the art, which does not succeed without the skills, intuition and knowledge


Collectors - not less wealth of the country than the artists themselves. Collecting art - not just a profitable investment (though with a good sense or the presence of visionary consultant collector acquires objects with unprecedented market capitalization), but this creativity. Not a picture of the owner to part with it without good reason (and enrichment - not always sufficiently good reason for the passionate collector). The company belongs to private collections with mixed feelings, as not always purchased the product can be admired.
For example, it is no secret that Russia has finally emerged leaf Chaim Soutine, but - from private persons. Now on their goodwill will depend on whether the picture to see the audience or not. But before something just could not - the famous painter of joy to look only at the domestic connoisseur reproductions in foreign editions.

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Whoever makes the first steps in the art of creating a collection, always a bit shy, so many fears and myths surrounding this business. It is terrible to buy a fake. It's a shame to buy a contemporary work, whose author is not to become a great (and importantly - highly valued!) In the future. It's a pity to spend money on something that a council of advisers, but not like you personally. After all, if you like realistic portraits with mood, and you try to convince the abstract beauty spots - nothing will. Collected is only what pleases you, and nobody's another view. If art does not warm your soul, it not better to invest in stocks?

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Novice collectors often reside in the power of delusion, that great art is sold only for big money. That is true, and not at all. Of course, if the collector thought of investing money with a guarantee of their augmentation, what could be better canvases Rothko, Warhol and Lucian Freud? Incidentally, the latter is a striking example of a very expensive and while still alive artist.

The market of contemporary art scares many of its variability. Take, for example, the work of Damien Hirst, acquisition of a Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk, a very large amount (exact figures are not disclosed), for several years, fell in price by almost half. Ukrainian billionaire co-owner of the famous diamond skull created by Hirst (ARTinvestment.Ru reports with reference to The Washington Post). The sparkling carats skull titled "For the love of God" belongs to a group of investors that includes the author of, his manager Frank Dunphy and Head White Cube Jay Joplin. However, according to one of the employees Pinchuk Art Center, most collectors are not too worried - he drives his friendship with Hirst and Koons himself, without the mediation of experts and managers, and communicating with these figures pleased him no less than the possession of their works.

Despite some instability in prices, such artists as Mark Rothko, can be safely classed as "an investor's dream." For example, the work "Number 7", bought by some lucky person in 1998 for 1.6 million dollars, was sold in 2007 at Christie's for 18.75 million dollars. For some nine years, the price jumped more than ten times!

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The novice collector should bear in mind that the artist will be lifelong follow the chosen subjects: Hurst will not run away from the skull and the themes of death, Freud - from naked while repulsively realistic bodies, and Gunther Yukker will continue to drive their own nails.

When it comes to artists of the second series, the portraits are valued less than landscapes or abstract compositions, which are readily decorate.

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When the blade masters "Jack of Diamonds" or the national school of classical cross the minimum valuation mark in several hundred thousand dollars, do not fight to the last dollar for one specific thing. Better buy a few pieces that are now worth much less.

Significant differences in prices are possible in the case of the now living authors. In September 2008, Sotheby's has successfully conducted a personal Hirst auction: two days of work was sold at 206 million dollars. But in November last year, the demand for works of British living classic plummeted.

Advises Alexei Dushkin, artist, art expert of the Branch and technical council on furniture:

- Collector knows exactly what he wants, and it may look, traveling around the world. Collector - focused specialist. And collectors are no clear boundaries search. It could be coins, irons, tools, machinery, engravings and drawings, silver ladles, or just any beautiful thing, say, the nineteenth century. A striking example of a collector of diverse painting - super-rich Moscow perfumer Henri Brakar, he seemed to be it does not matter who the author. And as was the case even when his master at the request of the owner at one picture XVIII century have increased the lady bust. That kind of freedom.

Corporate Collectibles - purely commercial. It is believed that antiques guarantee the fastest growing rates and the most profitable investment. With the favorable economic conditions prices doubled within three to five years. During the recession, prices are rising more slowly, but still growing. This is an asset. This collection is like a draw, it impersonal ... A personal collection of recklessly created by people who passionately love their collections, groomed and nurtured. Something then relatives will get something friends to donate.

The beginning collector differs from the experimental fact that can not collect it. Around him sometimes start spinning unscrupulous consultants and vendors. He can buy a fake. But over time, gaining experience and himself becomes an expert. Reading literature is beginning to communicate. He joins the circle of interest. Then he is no longer a beginner.

Council, Alexander Panov, art critic and collector:

- Art market - this is such a thing gutta-percha. As Pooh would say: "These bees never understand anything. If we do not talk about things the level of Rembrandt, Velasquez, who is imperishable values ... As art of the twentieth century, everything is very unpredictable - prices may rise sharply and fall sharply, especially in the midst of a financial crisis. And, for example, modern art, which two years ago was considered one of the most profitable investment today is in a confused state: a lot of work on the latest auctions "Contemporary Art" were nerasprodanny or their prices have dropped ... So with living artists can not give any guarantees, though, of course, there are some names that even if the price will fall - it is still a name. I will not even call them, just have to look at the latest catalogs Christie's or Sotheby's. We must look at the numbers, though they may take. It is clear that Malevich would always be in the price, Kabakov will always be in the price ... There is a certain price strip, below which the work can not fall. "Beetle" is worth six million, and below this price Kabakov is not lowered. But there is such a subjective thing: what you want - to buy the work to continue to wield it, or do you want this job just for yourself. For example, a person who buys the same "Beetle" Kabakov, told me that six years of watching, hung a reproduction of this work at home over the bed and thought he could live without it or not ... Even in the absence of the art market because there were clandestine collectors : were taken from the artist's painting for six months "hang". Such an approach that's emotional attitude to the painting as a cat - take root or not. In my own practice have been similar cases - the picture does not take root, to give back. The painting - there is an organic, living object of labor ... And the picture should settle down, and you should get used to ...

It happens, and love at first sight. But love at first sight, too, is not always mutual. Sometimes a picture can not you answer, though you think that it is "yours". Sometimes paintings, drawings depart rays rejection. Collecting in this form, in pure form - is almost a love affair in the spirit of the XVIII century, so that's love letters. But when it becomes a personal passion for collecting such "Dangerous Liaisons" ... For example, a very rich Russian kollektsionersha looks to London to work with obviously inflated estimeytom (original price. - "Expert"), begin bidding, and the price increase even more. Beside her sits an expert who says to her: "Do not." And she - I want. Well, love is love. I know personally of several collectors who can not stop - simply buy some drawn by a dog in the underpass. Such is erotomania. But on such "vices" collector is better not to tell anyone ...

If you want to create a professional collection that should be three years - not less - to read books, walk to museums, especially the West, to communicate with experts. Ask for the history of work (what is called the word "provenance") that stands behind each artist.

Council Maxim Bedov, director of the gallery Maricevic Fine Art:

- Based on the experiences of our many years of work, I can say: a beginning collector should begin with the self as collectibles - a reflection of taste, understanding of the art market, very collectible. The consultant can provide a quality and unique items, to protect against bad things, but the final choice should make himself a collector.

The difference between the collector of the collector, of course, is: the most striking example of a collector - Pavel Tretyakov, a person who has received an excellent education at home, knowing the artists and versed in the art. The first collector knows that he collects and why, deeply understands the subject of collecting. Collector, rather just have some free money and the opportunity to invest in works of art from time to time. The collector also may not have the money, but have a very serious and interesting collection. As practice shows, the collector is not always a wealthy man, he often just live this life: communicating widely with artists from other collectors, and through this - through exchanges, dating, and other opportunities - expanding its collection. In our country there are people whose collection started in the fifties, sixties, when the Russian art is not worth the money, which it now stands. These people should broaden their collection by the exchanges, barters ... In pure collectors - patrons, such as Pavel Tretyakov, now, perhaps not.

Our gallery specializes in Russian artist - the first wave of emigrants. And the most famous - Korovin, Malyavin, Feshin, and the less famous - Isupov, Kolesnikov, Hansen. They buy because the crisis does not affect the art market as much as, say, oil ... Works of art - this irreplaceable resource, and therefore to depreciate, they can not: that which was created in the past will no longer be created in the future. For example, artists immigrants - the number of their works is limited, and they have some value, which does not change much over time. Some fluctuations in the price, of course, possible, but the global decline, as the oil market or the stock market, are unlikely.

Corporate collections, as well as private - a very important part of culture is essential. Collecting, in general, originated as a private institution, all the collections, starting with Catherine, were personal. In our Russian situation, when museums are not subsidized, the burden of the return of cultural property (exported to the Soviet era, and those that were established overseas artists and emigrants) can lie on the shoulders of the wealthy corporations with free money, or to individuals who, again have the opportunity to spend part of their income on cultural values. We, as gallery owners, helping to return the cultural values that are outside of Russia. Any such property returned to his homeland, has lived the cultural life of our country: sooner or later it must at least temporarily leaves the walls of private meetings and appearing on the show, many items from private collections donated to major museums ... For example, in the Museum of Private Collections exhibited a great number of works and from corporate and from private collections in the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum in most major exhibitions on display works from private collections. Private gathering - this is a very important part of the cultural life of the country.

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[Vladimir]

This morning finam.fm in the transfer "They did it" acted Georgy Gens, President of LANIT (information technology). He told of one of the hobbies - collecting limited editions of books. Refers to the book artist. This subject attracted his Boris Fridman - Chief of "artist book".

[prosto_valentina]

I say banal idea, but I'm sure - to construct a full collection, you need to immerse themselves in the subject, time, individual artists, though the collection will be small, but it will be very valuable layer of culture.

[Vladimir]

Blitz-story about the major public collectors http://www.vashdosug.ru/exhibition/article/61682/

[fross]

The site Own Terms - nonconformist artists from the collection of Alexander Kronik, there were pictures of works:
http://www.svoykrug.com/Artists/yakovlev_v.html