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Astoundingly, art experts estimate that today as many as 80 per cent of all Russian works of art offered for sale in a market worth millions are actually forgeries.
As a result and for about the past year or so, Russia’s art market has faced its worst crisis of confidence in the post-Soviet era. Though for many years there have been suspicions about the source of fake antique icons which has become accepted as the norm.
Today, even the avant-garde works by artists such as Alexander Rodchenko, Malevich, Popova, Vasily Kandinsky and Goncharova are attracting bigger and bigger prices at auction and are subject to faking to an industrial degree. |
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| Russian art and authenticatioin | Malevich Fake? |
Fake suprematist compositions, as with targets like the Malevich above, which are built up from simple geometric elements and easy to replicate began to hit the art market in the 80's. Now its the turn of Altman, Ivan Bilibin, Ilya Chashnik, David Shterenberg and Udaltsova. Alexander Kiselev, Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Polenov, Feodor Vasiliyev, Potinokov, Alexei Jawlensky, Vladimir Orlovski, Alexej Harlamoff are prime for faking as they command good returns at auction. None are safe.
Many a fake Russian landscapes start off as little known pot boiler Danish and Scandinavian works bought at auction and at little cost. The fakers skillfully transforming them into long lost masterworks which sell in the tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands.
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Vasily Polenov |
Vladimir Orlovsky's Spring Day. |
Bilibin Fake |
Victor Vasnetsov's brilliantly crafted mysteries too are now prime targets for the fakers as are Bilibin's works. . Viktor Vasnetsov |
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Listed in chronological order: Authentication - Authenticating Andrei Rublev 1370-1430 Painter Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy 1837-1887 Painter Vasily Surikov 1848-1916 Painter Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov 1848-1926 Painter |
Jean Beraud 1849-1935 Painter Vera Mukhina 1889-1953 Sculptor Liubov Popova 1889-1924 Painter / Designer |
Louis Ritman 1889-1963 Painter |
