|
Alexander Ivanov (Russian: Александр Иванов, born 27 October 1962) is a Russian art collector who lives in Moscow. He is best known for the Fabergé Museum in Baden-Baden, which is the first private Russian-owned museum outside of Russia. Ivanov has no business holdings or interests, but the value of his massive art collection makes him a billionaire. In spring 2010, he said that a Middle Eastern collector offered him $2 billion for his Fabergé collection, the world's largest Fabergé jewellery collection with more than 3,000 items. Ivanov's tastes extend to many areas, and he also collects dinosaur fossils, ancient Greek and Roman art, pre-Columbian gold, Old Master paintings, Impressionist paintings, Orthodox icons, and he also has one of the finest collections of vintage automobiles.〔(``Tycoon Ivanov Vies Faberge, Boosts $2 Billion Museum Collection ), Bloomberg〕 〔 Ivanov's most significant purchase was the 1902 Fabergé egg made as an engagement gift to Baron Édouard de Rothschild. Ivanov bought it at Christie's in London on Nov. 28, 2007, for 9 million pounds ($18.5 million at the time), because he thought that it is Fabergé’s “finest ever.” 〔(Ivanov Vies Faberge, Boosts $2 Billion Museum Collection ), Bloomberg〕 == Early life and career == Born in Pskov, Russian SFSR, in 1962, Ivanov served in the Soviet Navy before making his studies in Moscow, eventually graduating in Law from Moscow State University. In the late 1980s, as the Soviet Union began to allow some capitalism, Ivanov was one of the first Russian businessmen to start trading in computers, and he quickly built up a successful and lucrative business. He began collecting Fabergé eggs and other art soon afterwards, because he had bags full of cash that he didn't know what to do with. Despite the minor relaxation of state repression under Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet society remained a place of severe restrictions, and terrible deficits of all consumer goods.〔(''Russian billionaire feathers his Fabergé nest egg'' ), Independent〕 Alexander Ivanov is also an artist, pioneering his own form of abstract painting that utilizes geometric images create with extremely vibrant colors whose pigments are partly made from very expensive and rare minerals. The presence of such precious ingredients is one reason that his first painting sold at auction went for 60 000 pounds at Bonhams on December 1, 2010 in London.〔(), Bonhams〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Ivanov (art collector)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|