Putin touring the Guggenheim Museum in 2005. This painting is unrelated to the collection mentioned in the article.
Business Insider: A private art collection of mysterious origins is possibly worth $2 billion — and will eventually go to Vladimir Putin
In central Moscow there is a private art collection of mysterious origins guarded by an octogenarian, Nina Moleva, who says it's filled with original works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and other Renaissance masters, according to a report by Layli Foroudi in the Moscow Times.
And ultimately, this collection will go to none other than Putin, per Moleva's wishes.
Moleva maintains that a Paris-based auction house valued this collection with a starting price of $400 million and an estimated real value of $2 billion after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
WNU Editor: The idea that this private collection contains original works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt .... and it is valued at $2 billion .... is a stretch. To begin .... all of the works of da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Michelangelo are well known .... but on the off chance that these are unknown works and/or legitimate works from these artists .... the value would be far more than $2 billion. And as for Putin inheriting it .... it is known that he loves art .... but accepting it would be a stretch even for him. My prediction ... he will dedicate it to St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum of which he is a regular visitor.
2 comments:
"My prediction ... he will dedicate it to St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum of which he is a regular visitor."
You're right on on this one. Another good example of excellent Russian pr and Western journalistic silliness.
A Thug will dedicate something that doesnt belong to him to a Museum BIG LOL
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Business Insider: A private art collection of mysterious origins"
Only in Mafia Russia a Thug gets this jackpot.
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