In the Pushkin driven the paintings of Raphael
ARTinvestment.RU   01 сентября 2016

...500 000 000 euros. Even more. Five hundred million — is the insured value of the paintings, which will bring to the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum Pushkin on September 12. And is an abstract amount, because Raphael, in principle, is much more expensive

Information on the insured value of the 11 works that will arrive in Russia from Italian collections, according to TASS and RIA Novosti, said the Ambassador of Italy in Russia Cesare Maria Ragalini.

the Figure of 500 million, however, should be taken very tentatively. Not as the market value. The fact that the works of Raphael (Raffaello Santi, Raffaello Sanzio, Rafael, Raffael da Urbino, Rafaelo, 1483-1520) appear on the auction market is very rare. Less than, say, Rembrandt or Rubens. But there are. While that is the highest auction result belongs to Raphael's drawing "head of a Muse" sold at Christie's in December 2009 nearly $48 million And it was a drawing, graphics and painting. Painting of comparable class would cost several times more expensive.

In the Pushkin Museum on the exhibition "Raphael. The poetry of the image" is being brought painting. And the market value of the 11 works obviously needs to exceed a billion euros.

However, the dispute about the amount should not distract from the point. Moscow is a unique exhibition of international importance. To repeat its comparable composition, it would be impossible for at least another five years. In 2020 will mark 500 years since the death of the great artist, but in anticipation of that date, Italian museums are no more paintings will not give up. We have to go to Pushkin. And to prepare for what simply will not.

Details about tickets, session duration, and other organizational refinements read on the website of the Pushkin Museum.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: tass.ru, ria.ru, artinvestment.ru