"Gelos", antique-auction house

[gorelov]

Well, friends, grasp the valerian, here's a topic about Antique, Auction House Gelos " (" Gelos "Antiques and Auction House), I personally, unlike most of the antique business leaders, charming and likable, if only because that due to "Gelos" can not personally meet most of the local antiquarians, well, of course, on average, give 15%of the amount of the transaction well, okay for the sake of such cases.
There are of course at the doorsteps of "Gelos", for example, not a very good copy of the portrait "A peasant from Muscel" painter Nicolae Grigorescu is declared as:

Unknown Artist. "Portrait of a girl. Mid-twentieth century. Oil on canvas. 51h46, 5. Illegible signature on the left bottom.

Compare the attached copy and the original ... but still, "Gelos-force", clearly. And what he does not like figures of the market is unclear.

[ФАИв]

gorelov, Oh let it not the first they can not, but probably not the last.

[gorelov]

Сообщение от FAIv

gorelov, Oh let it not the first they can not, but probably not the last.

Well, it is understandable that many would say about the dubious authenticity of the works are sometimes encountered on "Gelos", but again, what kind of information known businessman Herman L. Sterligov informed about the features of evaluation of works of art at major auction:

Article "Herman Sterligov: PR and hero Plowshare", based on the newspaper "Kommersant" and "Today", 2007: "And here, in the settlement, everything is always different: the same pig twice alike never zakolesh. I have a tractor DT-75, worth 1.6 million rubles, with many things that are the same, but only in dollars, much less useful than this tractor. I had a painting by Malevich, I sold it for more than $ 1.5 million to the gallery in Hamburg, but compared to the DT-75 is shit! "It is true that in the early 90's I took myself its literally for pennies. Kandinsky, I was generally a whole pile. At one time they came to me couple well-known art and suggested: "Come on we'll assemble a collection, you'll be buying pictures on our recommendation, then sell any - the entire collection to pay back. And it did . I fuck knows how many artworks bought, then sold one - all rescued. One Malevich had three pieces, this big, and every detail, watercolors different, I do not even consider. As long as the same Malevich carried on auctions at the same Sotheby's, I realized: there is just all bought and sold, until the opinions of experts. And prices well established. They say: 100 thousand for this work, we will immediately give a certificate. "

Interestingly, the director of the Russian office of Sotheby's, Sotheby's Russia "does not deny the fact of his acquaintance with Sterligov and remembers him as follows:

Article "Mikhail Kamensky: Malevich - our symbol of faith, it should be Russia's", newspaper "Kommersant» № 197 (4014) on 29.10.2008: Russian has never been the buyers of Malevich's auction market, although repeatedly bought his work in other ways. I'm not even talking about the "Black Square" of oddly out-of collection of the bankrupt Inkombank, which Potanin bought for the Hermitage. The collection includes one of the first Russian millionaires Herman Sterligov were two works by Malevich from Peter - a picturesque "Two Peasant Women in the background field and watercolor" Head of a Peasant, "passed from the widow of prominent Soviet-era Moscow collector Jacob Evseyevich Rubinstein. Winter 1992 Sterligov asked me to look at these things and express their views about the authenticity and price. In the frosty Saturday morning, he sent me a huge black jeep, which frightened the neighbors. A few minutes at breakneck speed, we domchalis to his office in the Leninsky Prospect. The ceiling of the cabinet Sterligov was riddled with bullets. It turns out he had a habit to shoot at the ceiling of a gun. And in the center of this tyrant is afraid of standing on a chair "Two Peasant Women in the background of the field. After that I did Sterligova nor his Malevich never met.

By the way, drew attention to the phrase "Malevich - this is our faith, and it should be Russia, which just will not think that would sell ishing, we all know that the creed of most antique dealers are a dollar sign ($), but not with the squares of Malevich or whatever. In this sense, community is not behind Russian designers who even Putin and the CBR got acquainted with his faith - the sign of the ruble.

[dedulya37]

Сообщение от gorelov

Compare the attached copy and the original ...

Not going to talk about the similarities or differences, my attitude to the copies (counterfeits) uniquely, but the purely visual to me more like the girl depicted in the work of Gelos. I think that her face is more Slavic in contrast to the original, which I see the features of the eastern type. I do not know why, but the eye to look nicer on the first portrait. That such an opinion.

[gans]

Сообщение от dedulya37

purely visual to me more like the girl depicted in the work of Gelos

Yes nicer.

[gorelov]

I say that spending thousands of dollars on every Sotheby's, a good job for three thousand of "Gelos" Even better than the original.

[Glasha]

Сообщение от gorelov

Compare the attached copy

But it already is not a copy, once and signature "copy".

Сообщение от dedulya37

I do not know why, but the eye to look nicer on the first portrait. Here is an opinion.

Strangely, I too,
if not for the signature, as well - disgusting.

Hence the conclusion of the note thereby "kopeistam": p:
 
by making copies of paintings by renowned artists, do not copy their signature, and put her (such and such, a copy of such and such) --
  value and liquidity of your work will be higher!

[gorelov]

I am still pleased with the "Gelos" at least for the fact that they are how you magically know how to sell the work, even calling for a strong restoration. Well, for example, I would never in life could not restore this работку my father, and "Gelos" both found a man who bought it at auction or even three times the amount claimed.

Gorelov, Yuri Gavrilivich (1931-1996). Born in the village Pokrovskoe Moscow region. From 1950 he studied at MGHI im.Surikova at the Faculty of Painting in the studio by Academician VP EPIFANOVA. Since 1957 began working at the Moscow plant pictorial art, fulfilling orders: portraits, genre paintings of Lenin's theme, decorative panels. In 1970 he entered the Moscow Art School in memory in 1905 as a teacher of drawing and painting. Since 1957, repeatedly participated in the Moscow, Republican and All-Union exhibitions. From 1977 he taught at MVHPU (Stroganov). "They want to whether the Russian war?". 1962 Oil on canvas (without stretcher) oil. 160h135. Talus paint layer. Signature and date lower right. Work for auction before the artist's son.

So to say a portrait of the Russian soldier pacifist.

[ВЯЧЕСЛАВ]

Сообщение от gorelov

That is to say a portrait of the Russian soldier pacifist.

And why is it you are labeled a pacifist? Try to unearth the "full profile" sapper shovel - not only have footcloths dry.
And why did it "restore." Professionally tighten on a frame, to consolidate the paint layer - the minimum that is needed and that should have been done long ago.

[gorelov]

Сообщение от VYACHESLAV

And why should it "restore." Professionally tighten on a frame, to consolidate the paint layer - the minimum that is needed and that should have been done long ago.

Well, you probably know better than me the status of work, but he was not a stretcher, while the workshop was not to drag it to the same subframe.