Remember the scene from the movie 1 + 1, where the dude got a nosebleed and he asks for a million dollars?
At the request of the workers, I will tell you how it works and why art is so expensive. Of course, the whole point is in the bubble, or rather in its legalization.
When you see a businessman paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a two-line painting, you fucking wonder how is that? Am I so dumb that I don't understand anything about art? In fact, everything is a little trickier.
I would divide the art world into three levels.
Level 1. Works by recognized masters. This is truly an investment. The works of Monet, Van Gogh and other recognized masters are investments that are becoming more expensive every year and our research has nothing to do with them.
Level 2. Works by little-known masters. Of course, during the time of Van Gogh, paintings were painted not only by Van Gogh, there were many, many little-known writers and their paintings, also exhibited in galleries, collected by connoisseurs and sold at auctions.
Level 3. Contemporary art.
Today we are interested in the last two levels. Let's talk about how a painting prepares for an interesting deal.
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1. A graduate of the Madrid Institute of Liberal Arts Geronimo Paperdelle in 1953 paints the painting "Rainy Sunset over the Loire" as his graduation work. So, we have a foreign artist and a pretentious name. Not bad anymore!
2. The work is sold for 500 francs in the market in Marseille, to the collector who put the painting into circulation.
3. The painting participates in exhibitions, changes several owners, is published in art magazines and is promoted in every possible way.
4. The picture (for money esessno) is written all sorts of laudatory odes from critics (honored professors of art academies), which are subsequently placed in pretentious magazines. And now the cost of the painting is no longer 500 francs, but 100,000 euros.
London. Auction house "Shmotbis". The painting is exhibited at an initial price of 150 thousand euros. The lady on the right is 155 thousand, the man from the third row is 200 thousand, the girl in the hat is 250 … who will give more! The price soars to a million euros! A million and a half!
Just another moneybag bought a piece of art. What is it? And now I am revealing the secret of the trick. Watch your hands.
Official Korrupchenko got married, had children, got kickbacks and left to live in London.
Kickbacks lie on the company's account (on distant islands), and they must be somehow legalized, otherwise the tax authorities will immediately ask where such a serious money supply came from at one point and there is a risk of spending the rest of the days in prison, or even being deported to Russia.
To legalize money, the wife of an official opens a company in Dubai in advance, some ART INVEST CORP., Of course, in a free economic zone, so as not to pay taxes.
ART INVEST CORP. is slowly buying and selling all sorts of art objects, vases, pictures, the office is beautiful, respected, with its own website, etc. Perhaps even with a salon in Moscow.
The official himself hires a lawyer who, through a network of dummies, creates a company like SUPER PUPER TRADING, which collects all kickbacks from road repairs, purchases of school desks, in short, all over the world.
And here is the official's wife and her ART INVEST CORP. decides to put up for auction his treasure, the painting of the famous in narrow circles Geronimo Paperdelle "Rainy Sunset over the Loire".
And now, unexpectedly for everyone, a struggle begins in the auction room, the figureheads raise the price of the painting to one and a half million dollars! Two million! Three millions! Five! Five million! Sold!
An elderly man in an expensive suit smiled, received applause and signed a payment order on behalf of SUPER PUPER TRADING to ART INVEST CORP. - 5 million euros!
Sleight of hand. Official Korrupchenko just legalized 5 million right before your eyes! Tomorrow will sell the brooch of Princess Diana for 50 million!
So kittens! Often, buyers and sellers of art are the same individuals acting through front agents. Those. they sell pictures to themselves, and the money ends up somewhere. And there is no magic here, no special understanding, taste and feeling of beauty.
And this is just one of many, many schemes, the simplest. In real planning, the chain becomes entangled to such an extent that it becomes impossible to determine the real owner and buyer of the art object.
Author: Abraham. Simpson
