Help with difficult signature on nice painting

Have this in my cart at thrift store, hoping someone can tell me who the artist is?
They have it at $99 but without knowing who painted it, I dont want to chance it.
Thank you in advance!

 

I am looking at many similar paintings on Google and almost all are better executed than this. Most are from the Philippines. I am not coming up with a signature match. For that kind of money, I would pass.

 

I don’t know much about art but I know I won’t pay $99 for that. Really seems way too much. Thinking that signature is long and vague on purpose.

 

-Ditto

 

Thanks - I did.
Am looking for more Haitian - had a lagy buy 7 for 800 & wants more when I find them.
They take them to Hawaii to sell!?

 

That wouldn't surprise me.

 

So you might make $11 on this one painting-that's up to you re: time/effort/profit margin expected for your business model ?

 

No $11 profit is not my business model. Most of the haitian paintings I sold I bought for $10 - $20 each.
And I can always use more space - the walls are covered & there are stacks of art under them.

 

oooo i reckon i could find something in there alright
would love to have a proper look

 

whats that upright dog piece ? (2nd to last pic)

 

Most definitely.. make a whole afternoon of it.

 

I know there's a lot of Haitan Art that flows thru Miami. The highest price paid for a piece by a Haitian Artist was 110.5 million for a a painting named 'Untitled' by Basquiat (Haitian & Puerto Rican) and bought by Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur.
Basquiat sold his first painting, Cadillac Moon (1981), to Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie, for $200.

 

My favorites that I could see were the arguing kitty cats (black panthers) and the Sweeney Todd razor.

 

Thrift Gods, please see fit to have some rich person's family donate a damn Basquiat so Journey can find it. Or me. I will also accept it.

 

If you haven't already identified them, I see a couple Botero copies in your inventory.

This is 'Official Portrait of the Military Junta.' 1971. The original is in a private collection according to the internet.



This is 'The Family. 1989. The original is in the Botero Museum in Bogata, Colombia.



Debora

 

I wouldn't mind having one dropped on me either! I've found some crazy things at church sales and charity rummage sales, but never a Basquiat.

 

Looks like my upstairs hallway! Except it's all my own paintings

 

Oh god this is why I resisted doing any large paintings. Unless I have a gallery representation as "storage" lol. My one very large piece is still at the husband's job because after the frame was added it was too big to fit in one of our cars. Friends have offered to bring it but.... What do i do with it then??

 

Hang it somewhere? It's one reason I make greeting cards. Easy to store in quantity, and I can give a lot away without any "oh gee thanks, now what do I do with it"s attached.

 

Our pal Journey's certainly paid his dues to the thrift art gods,as a matter of fact-we all have !