BANK COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS: FROM INVESTMENT TO THE BEAUTIFUL AND BACK Fashion beautiful and investment calculation help revive the Bank’s art collections. Investments in art is a common phenomenon in world’s practice. Corporate art collection and antiques underlines the status of the bank. In Russia, investments in non-core assets while rare. It is thought that Russian credit organizations’ love for art was buried with the collection of Inkombank for a long time. However, in recent years the revival, though few in number, but quite completely selected corporate collections indicates the growing interest of the bankers to the art.

Selection and placement of paintings: 10 secrets by the interior designers Almost no room is not considered as complete without decorating the interior with paintings, engravings, art panels or photographs. Interior with painting is a whole image of every room. This seemingly simple element of decoration adds the space needed focus, energy and sets the tone. But it can be only with proper selection and placement on the wall! For your attention some designer’s secrets of creating highest harmony in interior through paintings. They will help to solve arising in this case two important issues: how to choose a picture? and how to hang it?

Based on the auction data even beginner can to evaluate the picture approximately. The main thing is to know the general approach and avoid the "children's mistakes" which lead to the strongest deviations from real prices. Why it is unacceptable to use the top auction sales blindly? Why to evaluate your own work, you should not rely on auction prices and the other? Here are just a few nuances that need to be taken into account about auction prices if the product is going to be sold within our country.