Afremov

I was very surprised when my wife showed me another name on the back. This painting may have been worth $500 if it was painted by Afremov.

But it is not worth your bargain price painted by another.

This was very deceiving.

Smart though, you got me and I have been around the block a few times. Shame on you

I ordered what they call 2 "Surprise Originals painted by Leonid Afremov from David's personal collection"..those were supposed to be unique. I received the paintings and if one of them was all right the other one was clearly NOT painted by Leonid Afremov.

I received 2 COAs stating that those were one of a kind originals painted by Leonid himself which was clearly not true..but what really made me tick is when I found on their website that my "unique one of a kind" paintings were listed for sale with different names....in the meantime I had ordered another one and discovered again that this was not a one of a kind but a simple recreation sold with a special COA and a brand new name...I have included the various COAs, the pictures of the paintings I received and a screen capture of the way they listed the paintings...The paintings I received were called Magical Rain In The Park on my COA when in fact it is called Foggy early morning on their site, or Last Boat on my COA when it is in fact Purple Impression

So I am extremely disappointed as it WAS sold under a FALSE description. Worse, they made COAs with false informations on them just to make me believe I bought a unique painting, which make those COAs worthless..and what is even worse is that the signatures on all 3 paintings don't match.. they were not made by the same person..which means they are selling fakes passing as originals...

I manage to have one of those paintings refunded....I have bought other paintings to them sold as recreations that I liked and a few LImited Edition Originals that I am now wondering if they truly are "originals" as , again the signatures are off...the paintings are lovely but they are scamming people with false descriptions and fake COAs... STAY AWAY from them!!!

I bought 2 works in frame. When ordering and paying, the seller does not inform you that additional hidden costs have to be paid.

Therefore, read the sales and shipping conditions carefully.

The relatives and their studio of the famous painter work on the assembly line. Their promotion times will restart after expiration. Buyers are led to believe that decisions must be taken quickly.

Trade is only free of import taxes on the US market.

So people are on the lookout for these malicious practices. Leonid turn himself in his grave!

Received my order today and it is terrible.

I will keep changing my review as the situation evolves:

First of all I've ordered set of 3 on a frame. Because of the delay they sent me a complimentary print. I paid tax on it. I am in Canada I just paid $82.61 tax. Got the tax refunded. They reply pretty fast, if they see a negative review.

Yesterday I received my set. It is not a true replicas. Paid another tax $88. Yes it is on canvas but ... it is far from original to say the least. Colors mismatch. Amount of details. I would not hang it in my garage. I was upset with the quality of reproduction,

What they show you on the site are the originals made by Afremov.

What they send you are low quality quickly made "copy" by some guy. In my case it was Christian Rubio.

After my complaint I got offered another "master piece" right away. I refused and ask for the refund. They promised to send the prepaid return label.

Let see if I get the refund.

Update:

Ok. I've got my refund minus taxes. I have to get it from the government somehow. They are pretty responsive as a customer support.

Here is the problem: They show an original painting on the web site, but they send you a poor replica. Perhaps somewhere they mention that in a fine legal print. But:

What you see is NOT what you get!

They have to show the actual replicas on the web site and sell them.

From what I understood they mass producing the original paintings, but the quality is low. But on other hand you can't buy a good painting for a couple hundred...

If you don't like it - they will refund.

I ordered 4 paintings as recreations from afremov. I only write this review because they are not answering my complaints.

Those were:

"Rain Princess 3"

"Morning Sun of January"

"Music"

"Old Magic"

At first, I received only the 3 first called paintings. Old magic is still pending. Even in Corona-times the delivery was incredibly fast, so I was really impressed.

But as soon I got my paintings I opened them and were more than disappointed.

I would like to cite the page itself: "his recreation was finished by Leonid Afremov himself with the help of his best studio artists to do pencil drawing and basic background." "This recreation is made almost identical to the original image that you see online. The only difference is patterns and minor details that give the recreation and original feel." and "This piece was created with the same amount of soul and emotion just like the first original painting." and from the page which explains recreation: "Leonid employees profesional artists who do the pencil drawings and backround layers for him. Then he himself finished the details of the painting. "

The Rain princess 3 looks like a rain princes painting, but totally not like Rain princess 3. It looks like a cheap copy of it. lines are just straight strokes instead of the original round lines and the effect is total different. The tree in the background is a drawn joke, the buildings to the right are just blocks and there is not any 3D-deep-effect like in the original, which it claims to be almost identical to. the strokes are just way less and bigger and much more loveless. It does not look like Rain princess 3 and it does not in any kind look "almost identical". This is just a lie.

But it gets better with "Music". This just looks like a child made his first steps with perspective painting and is putting all the assembly parts of the violin somewhere in totally wrong positions and wrong proportions, same with the glass. Some parts are horrible deformed and the books look like breaking skyscrapers. It has nothing to do with the original and is not in any way almost identical".

The best part becomes the morning sun of January. Even if I would try this myself, I need to put effort in it to make it that bad. I thought I am a bad joke to them. I really can't imagine that Leonid ever touched this painting or would have let it be sold. Because the name on this picture just ruins his name and all of his creations with such examples. Just look at the original and the "recreation" I also uploaded.

If someone describes on his page that these paintings look "almost identical" and it is finished by Leonid Afremov, what do you expect? So even if you watch his videos doing recreations? Such paintings?

I'm not even sure how they have done this. I would expect that they will use a projector or something and then doing the pencil work etc. But because all the stuff is even in the wrong positions it seems they are just terrible high speed painting without putting any effort in it.

Well it seems that receiving a really nice paintings from Afremov for just $149 stays an illusion. If I would have read this page and the reviews here, I would not have bought those paintings.

I would rather get a giclée print of those.

So for the "old magic"-painting which is still missing, I wrote them I want a picture of it. I put my complaints and that wish in one mail, and they didn't respond, besides else they respond really fast.

What I have read now is in another complaint from october 2019. A copmment from afremovs themselfs about recreations: "We sale studio recreations , and some recreations that are done by my father and the studio together ( I think in couple days we will sale the last one and the category will be removed)". How interesting that 9 months later there are still such recreations!

do not trust them! sells "reproductions" as original: afremov.com STAY AWAY and look at the other negative reviews!

Dont fall for the buyed positive ones! Everyone that knows about art gonna laught about you if you have something like that hanging at your home!