@Torunn saidSo like I told Stees who ever you leave them too if they are of any value the will in all likely hood sell.
People buy work of art for different reasons. Not because of its value on the market but because you like it and want it. I was given paintings by my art-loving father - not his own work but pieces he bought on different occasions without having the need for them. He gave them to me - oil paintings, water colour, lithography - and I love them too. My family though I believe do not feel the same way. 🙂
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@Very-Rusty saidThere is so much art being made today, in different ways. If you want art that grows in value you must either invest a lot of money, or be very lucky to inherit, or find unknown but valuable pieces at auctions. 🙂
So like I told Stees who ever you leave them too if they are of any value the will in all likely hood sell.
-VR
... or in your attic if perhaps you have helped a poor painter with food and shelter in return for paintings, and it turns out that the person was very talented indeed. It may still happen.
@Very-Rusty saidWell then, maybe they should die first and paint later, eh? Would be a lot more lucrative.
The paintings are always worth more after the artist is deceased!
-VR
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@Torunn saidI guess one could also become chairman of the Kennedy Center.
There is so much art being made today, in different ways. If you want art that grows in value you must either invest a lot of money, or be very lucky to inherit, or find unknown but valuable pieces at auctions. 🙂
... or in your attic if perhaps you have helped a poor painter with food and shelter in return for paintings, and it turns out that the person was very talented indeed. It may still happen.
I know, Performing Arts, but hey, art is art. 🙂
@Great-Big-Stees saidAren't prints just copies? Like lithographs, maybe?
I have a couple if signed and numbered prints by a Canadian artist that have gone up in value since I purchased them and that artist is still “among” us @ 95.👍
I mean the price does go up if they are good copies, but still.
@Great-Big-Stees saidThis is why prints are great. I have several prints in my house of Bev Doolittle paintings. Cheaper than the originals, but they are still good to look at.
No, you misunderstand. I buy art pieces because I like to look at them. If they increase in value that is just how the market “might” go. Yes I will likely leave them to my family, who like me, enjoy looking at them and more than likely would do as I did…pass them on. Now should they decide to sell them, so be it. I got out of them what I wanted.👍
@Suzianne saidLeaving all the bougie armchair art-appraisers aside, I think your and Stees' posts (and maybe some others) indicate that art might help after all, even despite other countervailing influences.
This is why prints are great. I have several prints in my house of Bev Doolittle paintings. Cheaper than the originals, but they are still good to look at.
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@Great-Big-Stees saidAha, Signed and numbered. I missed this the first time around.
I have a couple if signed and numbered prints by a Canadian artist that have gone up in value since I purchased them and that artist is still “among” us @ 95.👍
These do have greater value.
The Bev Doolittle I have over my desk says 12460/20000.
I wouldn't want to have to sign that many. My hand would be on ice for a week.
@Suzianne saidI have learned that with the techniques they use today, it doesn't matter if the lito you have is the first or last print of a series, the signature may though.
Aha, Signed and numbered. I missed this the first time around.
These do have greater value.
The Bev Doolittle I have over my desk says 12460/20000.
I wouldn't want to have to sign that many. My hand would be on ice for a week.
@Arkturos saidGood art, be it paintings, or music, or stage performance, is bliss.
Of course with the OP I meant something more along the lines of helping to nudge our shared world in better directions, but it seems I was a stupid fool to even have such a notion.
We can consume it continuously, at our leisure, making it endlessly nurturing.
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@Suzianne saidI have several signed and numbered prints by different artists, some well known others not so but the largest “run” had, compared to yours a paltry number, of 850. I wonder how long it would take to sign ✍️ 20,000?🤔😲
Aha, Signed and numbered. I missed this the first time around.
These do have greater value.
The Bev Doolittle I have over my desk says 12460/20000.
I wouldn't want to have to sign that many. My hand would be on ice for a week.