Catalog fakes: a shot from the past
ARTinvestment.RU   22 октября 2007

It is obvious falshakov a thing of the past. But, unfortunately, from the past, too, are the shots.

it is obvious falshakov a thing of the past. But, unfortunately, from the past, too, are the shots. One of them, and progremel - what is with the opening of the Salon.

is not difficult to guess that this is a scandalous Directory «Directory imitations of paintings», prepared Vilkova Anatoliy and Vladimir Petrov Rossvyazohrankultury with patronage. This work represents a cherubic illustrated catalog, on each page of which contains two images: top - lots of photo catalog of Western European (Danish, Swedish, etc.) auction of approximately 2001-2004, and at the bottom - the image of the same picture, but already signed with the Russian and the Russian market (we can assume that the attribution of the Tretyakov Gallery). Above - little-known «kukkuki» (usually screen shots from the online catalog), but they are already at the bottom «Kisseleva», «Lagorio», «Gorbatov», so someone there just is not.

The technology is well-known crooks certainly two years. On the local European auctions for «five-ten» bought minor artists of XIX century. It is understandable that people bought with seasoned eyes, that determined the similarity of manners and estimate those of the Europeans without much trouble, you can turn in our Peredvizhniki or a great landscape. Somewhere dorisovyvali samovar, which is cleaned or disguise people. Signatures, by itself, change. And turned «Marinus-kukkuki» sold on the domestic market with the «margin» 800-1000%. It is surprising that fraudsters arrogantly not even worried about elementary zametanii traces: sources continued to hang on to the web directories of auctions. They were not even asked to remove, even though the buyer in such areas usually have to meet. Even before closing the deal falshaki, of course, supplies of expertise (usually authoritative museum organization).

How? This issue also was raised not yesterday. Along with a couple of years ago, a popular version of corruption (and the others seemed fantastically naive), and today you can take a few more. The main alternative version: experts, brought up in Soviet times, on an awareness of the uniqueness of Russian painting really make mistakes with attribution. Just because the experts were not very familiar with Western European school, in line with which to work and our artists of the time. That is, imagine that an ordinary little-known artist Dusseldorf School worked with the quality of Ivan Shishkin, it was almost impossible. There are as pogrustit.

Actually, on this occasion remember the phrase from an article by Tatiana Markina: «Western European art of the XIX century had already lost one thousand paintings, rewritten for Russian names. A XIX century Russian art has become nothing but an incorrect understanding of what our artists, we felt great, really no different from the mean European ». And probably not without Russian academic painting has only domestic significance. In fact in the world history of art, it is not a phenomenon, as opposed to, say, from the Russian avant-garde, or even a noticeable phenomenon of conceptualism.

But not on this issue. In the history of forgeries directory there is another nuance. Have heard that it included a few pictures with incorrect attribution in the opposite direction. That is, for example, when the military and other tough years exported picture Russian painter (whose name meant little to foreign markets) and it was to fake the signature of Western paintings (sometimes almost gouache on wheels). Cases «perelitsovki» such things, though isolated, are also included in our «criminal chronicle».

Catalog forgery generally received mixed reviews market professionals. The positive point is. It is clear that buyers must not remain in the state of children's credulity. And if people do not stop to lose vigilance because the announced price of things more than 100-200 thousand dollars (reasoning: the money for such impressive product can only be a first-class), the fair market operators are not going to harm. On the other hand, form prepodneseniya this information and the time of the publication is difficult to name successful. Announce «Catalog fakes» antiques front cabin is still a good feast that started with a demonstration illustrated handbook of medical liver diseases. Who is addressed? Collectors - people are adults, and so everybody knows. In short, only the buyers' appetite pereportit. So the rate to perepoloshit people played. «Catalog fakes» 3 000 rubles was fit to print in a metal cover (as issued photo album «Sex» Madonna) - Required to zatrut holes. The story of how the rich cry deceived, was successfully held on the central channels. The audience loved razoblachitelnye «detectives». Well, all the rest is wait for new episodes. Presumably, already preparing the second volume of fascinating revelations.