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To begin to collect the Soviet painting…
Not so likely that a rich person is sitting on his verandah with a cup of coffee and thinking: has the time come to begin to collect something?
If yes, so what is it that I wish to collect?
As a matter of principle it is possible. I have had a similar situation. When I was 10, I suddenly decided to collect match labels. Having collected an impressive collection, boon there was an opportunity to press on the parents, I changed my mind and started to collect stamps. Having collected about 8000 perfect stamps, basically “colonial countries”, that was very much appreciated and is appreciated, I have calmed down.
A couple of years passed and I felt a propensity for painting. I drew from childhood and some of my drawings I kept until today.
Today I stand up for collecting the Soviet painting, which has appeared to be not only claimed and looked for, but also what is strangely enough - rare.
When several years ago, in the end of the ХХ century, the employees of the Tretyakov gallery have decided that the time has come to pay attention to the painting of socialist realism, the official stile of the Soviet Era period, they found out with horror, that its best samples are in USA and England. The enterprising, highly-educated gallery owners such as Miles, Johnson and others have cheaply bought up and have taken out of the USSR hundreds, if not thousand of perfect works.
Our culture authorities were shocked.
All that, which was recently rejected with laughter and contempt suddenly became a subject for collecting.
When I visit the new Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean Bridge in Moscow, I always look at the grand scale picture by Gerasimov, nicknamed ” Two leaders after the rain “, depicting Stalin and Voroshilov. This, or anything similar, even theoretically could not be created in any other country. It is possible to abuse or to love the persons depicted on the picture, but we must recognize, that it is a subject of pride of Russians. I can not estimate precisely its money’s worth, it is a state property and is not for sale, but it is clear that this picture costs minimum several hundreds of thousands dollars.
I think it happens sometimes - a person being impressed by the chef-d’oeuvre seen in the museum, thinks suddenly: why not to admire each day? Why not to have it at home?
Collecting of antiques is a bad idea to surprise your friends: if you have spare money, you go to Arbat street, buy a picture by Aivazovsky (90% counterfeit), hang it up on a wall and feel yourself bursting of pride among the visitors overwhelming majority of which are not capable to distinguish a sheep from a ship.
The advanced solvent people find themselves a dealer, which solves all questions concerned with the collecting. By the way, there is a lot of such questions.
Here I would first of all mention the skill to find a required picture and help in the analysis of the market condition together with the examination and confirmation of authenticity and many other. By the way the services of a good dealer are to be well-paid. It is possible to save money, by not inviting the dealer, but it is pertinently to recollect a saying: greedy pays twice.
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