Buying art at the Andriyivsky descent
With a recent visitor from the Sates I spent quite some time browsing the stalls of street art in Kyiv and in Lviv. I must say, in comparison with the likes in Paris and Rome, Ukrainians actually can offer some very original items. The pricing is so good of course that pretty much anything they offer is much better buy then in the States.
Also, I was set back by an unpleasant targeted pricing there. The thing is when at the Lviv art market, we set our eye on a very lovely cityscape done with a palette knife – a very recognizable technique (for $80). When on Andriyivsky, I spotted a similar cityscape, and indeed, it was the same Lviv artist piece, just in a slightly bigger format (priced at $280.) Wow, that beats a flight to Lviv and back plus a painting, I thought.
We ended up with these two beauties, by a felllow artist of the lvovite in question. If you ignore the signature smack across the bottom of the picture, you can get the pure pleasure of enjoying these on our living room wall.
Note: the art market in Lviv is just to the right from the opera when facing it, across the street and into the alley. The original art salespeople all congregate in the middle of that market square. Don’t forget to bargain. Greatest exuse: my atm only game me this xx amount (and show them the money, looking innocent) but be reasonable- the artist’s got to bring home the cheese.
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