Become rich with art - the meaning and nonsense of the superteors art

Art as a speculative object: NOT FOR NUMBERSTHERSENER

In the previous article to the relationship of man to art, "with art - the variant for greedy" , it was about the lurking hope of the modern capitalist, also being able to capitalize pleasant things like art - in our society it is still one of the most important goals in life.

A quick look into the world of the richest people in the present brought disillusionment, especially for the top positions: there is not a vain of sunshine, but an unusually high proportion of divorces, scandals, confrontations with the judiciary.

For the most part, there are no professions fulfilled by physical or mental work, but trade and even more trade with whatever, exploitation of natural resources for the benefit of individual, draft and operation of parasitic business models (business models that work at the expense of employees, customers, suppliers, taxes, animals, the environment ... Not desirable, we still come to the exceptions.

And with the art that storms the top of the markets today, it is not, anyway, into the world of the whole that can pay for these top prices, you can only get in when you have been born in. If not, you are not a conversation and a trading partner, only extraordinary sums of money open the doors, even if you just want to bid at the next auction ...

If money is not determined by the meaning of life: the rich art savers

There are exceptions that increase in the flowering times of social market economy and social trends in the direction of creative, self -responsible life and take it off again by an increasingly unscrupulous, excessive financial world (whoever fears for their existence does not act creatively or responsible in case of doubt).

In the past few decades, the exceptions were primarily people who have dealt with developments related to computers, new hardware, extraordinary software or other communication channels-opening social media environments.

These exceptional entrepreneurs are characterized by the fact that they do not pursue their profession or have founded their company because of this in order to get rich, but because they had to offer content to advance a certain development.

As a rule, they do not have all the trouble with divorce, financial scandals and the judiciary, but on the contrary, they decide to do something meaningful with their money.

In the United States, many of these sensitive exceptions among the richest people have participated in the " The Giving Pledge" Bill Gates and Warren Buffett ("the promise to give something"), which invites the richest Americans to devote most of their wealth to philanthropic purposes.

At the moment, almost a third of the American billionaires are one of the non-greedy rich who have promised considerable assets to the “Giving Pledge”.

In the upper spheres of the art market, we meet these people less, but if it is not bad for all of us: they buy art to save an irretrievable work of art through a foundation to a public museum from shaking that would avoid this work of art forever.

Some works of art of mankind have been "saved" , "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" by Gustav Klimt went through Ronald Lauder (son of Estée Lauder) to the new Gallery New York, the "The Massaker of the Innocent" by Peter Paul Rubens was donated by Canadian businessman and artificial patron Kenneth Thomson to the art gallery of ontario Gogh's "Getreidefeld with cypress" donated Walter Annenberg (American diplomat and art patron) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Unfortunately, exceptions in the world of superteors art.

And just do not share: the insidious robbery of mankind art

With the idea of ​​owning one of the most valuable (and often most beautiful) works of art in the world, quite a few of the richest 100 people frolic on the upper floors of the art market. But they are rather not about good investment, more than rich enough they are with assets between 12 and 80 billion, they want to own the work of art forever, have, have, have, and above all have without sharing with others.

Of the 88 paintings that were able to achieve a price of over $ 35 million, 42 have already been sold anonymously, which has not been seen for a long time. 59 were currently bought anonymously, these 59 extraordinary works of art were buried between 1998 and 2015 in the spheres of wealth, normal citizens can no longer enjoy them.

When the buyer is known, this is sometimes very good for these normal citizens, 5 of the 29 remaining world works of art were purchased directly by public plastics, the 3 exceptional paintings donated to publicly accessible plastics have already been mentioned.

The remaining 21 went to named and well -known people with assets, sometimes this is also good for all of us when this person gives his art to publicly accessible museums all over the world, sometimes not when he hangs it in his bedroom.

Sometimes it is not good at all, for the public and for the work of art, for the "portrait of Dr. Gachet" , Vincent van Gogh, 1890, the buyer is said to have determined: "Put the picture in my coffin when I die" .

He died in 1996, nothing has been known about the stay of the picture since then ...

This included around 80 of the most expensive paintings in the world (90 %) by speculative, purely selfish -motivated art trade - by the way 38 via Sotheby’s , 37 via Christie’s , 3 about other auction houses , 2 over galleries and only 7 over normal private commission -free sales - withdrawn from the public; It looks like normal citizens can forget the most expensive art in the world.

At Andy Warhol's "Colored Mona Lisa " a thousand times, perhaps bearable, with the umpteenth version of Edward Munch "Schreu" and Roy Lichtenstein's comic adaptations "Sleeping Girl" , "Woman with Flowed" , "Ring" , "HOHE ROOM and NOBODY in IT" , Alrigh " Still, but with these most expensive paintings in the world there are also very unique, beautiful paintings by Cezanne, Gauguin, Klimt , Manet , Miro, Modigliani, Mondrian, Monet , Picasso , Renoir, Rubens, Schiele , Titian, Turner, van Gogh and many other artists, whose special charisma cannot be reproduced by a poster ...

One of the most expensive paintings in the world "Les Femmes d'Alger (version 'O')" (the women from Algier version 'O') was sold on May 11, 2015 for a mere $ 179.4 million to an anonymous art lover. Or to a non-Ganz art lover; If he stays anonymous, he destroys every chance that this picture can ever combine with the other 14 paintings and numerous drawings that belong to the "Les Femmes d'Alger" series.

It doesn't matter, the series is a unit, Picasso's angry statement on the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962, in which Algeria dissolves from French rule. The different versions of the "Women of Algiers" also form a unit, they all carry the torch of resistance to male madness of war, in each of the pictures and drawings of the series is a different nuance of this resistance.

This series should never be separated, shortly after Picasso had ended the series with the "O '" version sold here in 1955, the passionate Picasso collectors Sally and Victor all over the series from Picasso's gallery owner Daniel Henry Kahnweiler in 1956.

Sally and Victor Alles lived with their paintings - their children have already completely inquired with schoolmates, where the Picassos hung at home - but were unfortunately financially financially financially than super rich with everything fascinating.

Since the couple could not actually afford the series, they sold version A, B, D, E, F, G, I, J, L and N to Picasso's representation in New York, the Saidenberg Gallery , and kept versions C, H, K, M and O. Victor C had to be sold to Victor in 1988, from the remaining four to Sally in 1997, to apply inheritance taxes.

The series, which currently includes the most expensive painting in the world, was separated because it was bought by too little money by too passionate collectors. And now the reunification of this series may be prevented for all times because part of a part of a passionate collector was bought with too much money ...