How much would you offer for this painting?

Ah!
I see......or rather I don't.......
...or maybe shouldn't.....
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I await your 'plug' for the 'opening' of the art show to 'reveal' your new 'Master bath' piece.

 

Those Panama Documents have reveled a look into the high end art world.

 

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ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS IDEA.

Is my perception right? Will one tub be divided into four equal segments, one with each color as above? Or are you planning 4 bathtubs on the same canvas?

BTW. Hope you don't mind my deleting the last sentence in above quote. It just kept taking my thoughts off what I was typing.

I can hardly wait to see the finished product. Please alert me when posted.

My perception of the "art world."
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When De Sole, the CHAIRMAN OF SOTHEBY'S AUCTION HOUSE pays 8.3 million dollars for a 1956 Rothko, from Knoedler, one of NYC's most prestigious art dealers, and years later discovers that it's a forgery does not help change my mind that 110% of those experts???? have no freaking idea what the hell they're talking about.

Sorry, there is no room in my house for a Rothko.


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This is the fake Rothko. Not a good copy.

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If you want to see some really horrible fake Rothko works:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/search?q=rothko&hasimage=true&by_date=2016-04-14T19:39:43.079Z

 

Thanks, Mark. Quite a display. If that's the same company "Live Auctioneers" that I've looked at for years, they are going to be blocked on my e-mail sites. Just did a quick check on a few, even the tri-color on PAPER. I didn't see any bids, but opening required on all is $3,100 and estimates are mostly over $50,000.

How do they get away with that?????

 

Liveauctioneers is a legitimate platform but has numerous sleezy vendors, much like eBay. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

 

Thanks again, Mark. Is that the one I'm thinking of that started years ago on eBay. They had several vendors using their site. NO SUPERVISION, and 90% either sleaze companies or individuals who had no clue as to what they were offering and usually at ten times over book value.
I won't block them right now.

 

Liveauctioneers is simply on online venue offering an online platform to smaller regional auction houses. There is some fabulous stuff on offer and if you know what you are doing you can find great deals. Sadly, they don't seem to police their members as there is a tremendous amount of misrepresentation and outright fraud.

As always, caveat emptor.

If you want a really great deal on a Van Gogh:
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/43847560_self-portrait-81-pastel-on-paper-vincent-van-gogh

 

If you don't observe 'caveat emptor'.......you may cavity empty...

 

NAH! Mark, I'll pass on that one. I like the shirt, but the face isn't that familiar.

 

I love the "eBayspeak" in some of these listings, i.e. "hand signed" or "Signed Pablo Picasso" while both are technically correct, neither affirms that the piece was signed BY the artist in question.

 

I'm not curious enough to check closed sales, but how many people are really going to bid on, for example, that Van Gogh? Starting bid, $5,500. Est. $20,000 to $25,000.

Can someone actually bid on, say a Picasso, without knowing what Picasso Apres means?

 

They are counting on the stupidity and avarice of amateurs. A genuine Van Gogh work on paper would be worth hundreds of thousands if not more. They seem to list the items multiple times until some sucker comes along and pays the minimum bid. After all $5,500 ain't bad for a lousy forgery that probably only took a few hours to produce.

 

I've been thinking about offering the word 'RARE' for sale on bidet.