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Couple of hundred grand on a baseball card?
Nothing much at all . . .
BREAKING NEWS Amid gasps from the crowd, Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting of a skull sold for $110.5 million at auction, a record for an American artist Thursday, May 18, 2017 9:12 PM EDT |
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.....and it was bought in 1984 for 19K!! Not a bad ROI!!
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. . . .and think of how many people told him it was overpriced when he bought it.
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Hard to believe that painting went for as much as it did. I thought I had read somewhere that the fine art market had flattened out.
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*mic drop*
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This is my other love and I can tell you these prices on anything in the Pop Movement will become the norm for coming future.
The Gen X collectors started embracing this as they became more monied and the Millennials jumped on. I was lucky enough to grab a Robert Dowd study two years ago for a pittance at an auction house as they strangely put it in a philatelic auction. I have been offered 10 times the purchase price already and I am holding. Found a poorly listed Robert Broner signed circuit print on eBay just a few months ago. An accidental find of an artist featured in The Met and MoMA is great fun. The finds are out there if you know what to look for.
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Now that's funny!!!
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I agree. The first post that actually made me laugh out loud in a while. Well done.
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From the NYT article on the sale: “Sotheby’s had a lot more works in the middle range round $5 million to $10 million that appealed to the market.”
That's quite the middle range for paintings. |
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Quote:
The Pure Definition of "STUiPED Money!!!"
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IMO, the skull is Basquiat's most popular painting. This is definitely a good investment.
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