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Assembling your own collection is a fascinating and rewarding process. But acquiring objects of great historical, artistic and financial value requires more than just good taste and a healthy bank account. Even if you are collecting solely as a means of securing a good return, the key to making the right investment is an expert knowledge of the history of art. While blue-chip investments in Russi...
Although investments in the art market are slower to give returns, they are less risky and outperform most other assets, including the stock exchange. Examining the fifty-year period from 1953 to 200...
Russian art belongs to the common school of Western art, but has often existed and developed on its own, for obvious geographical, historical and political reasons. For the first seven hundred years,...
Fine art is as old as man – and possibly even predates man, as evidence emerges of Neanderthals making cave art fifty thousand years ago. Besides creating art, humans have always collected art, wheth...