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You ask — we answer. Yes, we have working “nonworking days”. Yes, everything is as before. We accept paintings, consider, put on online bidding and sell. The courier service will also work (they were given special permission). Therefore, we will do shipments to Russian cities as before. Drop by bidding. And send pictures for consideration to info@artsale.info

The once hated symbols of social disconnection — smartphones, the Internet and social networks — in these tragic days turned out to be just saving technologies for many. Including for sellers, buyers and connoisseurs of art in quarantine. Online exhibitions, online lectures, online fairs, online auctions... The virus simply forcibly drove entire countries into the era of remote consumption that was despised until recently. Yes, imperfect. Yes, without “live communication” and “warm human contact”. But safe.

March 6, 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of Anatoly Alexandrovich Okorokov (1940–1992). For the author’s anniversary, D-29 art gallery, together with the artist’s family, prepared an exhibition of his paintings, drawings and sculptures. Anatoly Okorokov — a graduate of Surikovka, studied under Zhilinsky and Gritsay, an artist of the Moscow Union of Artists, participated in republican and all-Union exhibitions. Despite the «non-Soviet» optics, obvious sympathy for Fauvism, extravaganza of color, his career has developed quite successfully in the system of official art.

On Monday, February 24, 2020 (a weekend for Russia), another gloomy news came from Europe. RBC, citing Bloomberg, reported that on this day the European stock market showed the maximum decline since 2016. The companies from the tourism industry and the manufacturers of prestigious consumer goods were especially sagging. In particular, shares of one of the industry leaders — Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) — fell 7.2%.

From Moscow to the long-suffering Chinese Wuhan — 6340 km. By early February, neighbors had more than 37,000 sick and more than 800 dead. This is only official. But time goes on, there are no reports about cases of the disease in Moscow. Therefore, the former semi-panicky sentiments began to be rapidly replaced by cap-hatters. “Knowing people” already make it clear that the epidemic is about to be taken under control, everything will end in March-April, and the effect of the virus on the Russian economy will be quite insignificant.

Artprice.com came to this side conclusion when it put things in order in its method of periodization of art. Researchers from the French analytical agency posed the question: “How to objectively define Contemporary Art in 2020?” And the task is quite difficult. Especially when you need to set clear “mathematical”, and not art criticism criteria for working with large amounts of price information.

The events of January 15, 2020 developed almost in the spirit of political activism. They were waiting for a routine dull event of the era of «stability». No desire to watch and listen. And here's the bang: the resignation of the Medvedev government, the ex-head of the tax service Mishustin at the premiere, while the changes to the Constitution are not clear. And all this already four years before the end of the presidential term.

What are the consequences for the long-suffering economy in general and the national art market in particular?

You can do it. There are a set of steps. But for starters, let's eliminate the situation when it comes to works of unknown authorship, without signatures, as well as paintings by amateur artists, amateur copies and mass reproductions. All of them often cost symbolic money, 1,000-5,000 rubles. The age of the picture (old — not old) is also not a criterion for its price. So we take it as a condition that the name of the author of the evaluated work is known in advance and the picture is signed. Then the general procedure will be something like this:

In January, the Sotheby's auction and our Pushkin Museum announced the launch of a fashion collaboration and their own fashion brand. Coincidence? We don’t think so. Sotheby's, in anticipation of a prestigious auction of works by old masters, together with the fashion brand Highsnobiety announced a collection with images of paintings by Renaissance artists.