It depends on where you're buying them from. Galleries, Art sales, etc. With some auctions, You can get them for a little cheaper than 1 million.
It depends on where you're buying them from. Galleries, Art sales, etc. With some auctions, You can get them for a little cheaper than 1 million.
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
Thats what I thought... I was like WOW, someone has a VERY rich exOriginally Posted by SonicBones
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He's well off.Originally Posted by DJ Russ Reign
But the painting had actually been in his family for over 80 years. When his grandmother died, In laws decided to sell the painting. He found out which place had it, and bought it through there.
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
Gotcha... I was about to ask what team he plays for lol...Originally Posted by RoseDelight
There is a diff between being well off and dropping a cool mil on a painting for a GF...
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In Picasso's latter life he was selling his work for not that much.I know someone that has one from this era and that went for about $10,000.Originally Posted by DJ Russ Reign
An orig. Van Gogh can cost up to $10 Million
Well, I've known him for 24 years. So it was a tad bit different, lol.Originally Posted by DJ Russ Reign
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
Your a lucky girl Rose....
I would love to have an original Van Gogh or an original Salvador Dali'...![]()
My parents have an original Picasso that they bought in Greece, It's beautiful!Originally Posted by SonicBones
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
I have a numbered and stamped Goya LITHO, and that cost close to 10 Gs... real original art is BOKU loot...
That being said, I just finished a painting - who wants to buy it lol? It's called "The Moaning Lisa"
Hey still... if your not my wife, you don't exceed 5 decimal places lol... under any circumstances...Originally Posted by RoseDelight
I'll give you a dime, and a cheeto.
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
LOLOriginally Posted by DJ Russ Reign
I bought a bf a nice pair of socks once.....Green!
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
Originally Posted by RoseDelight
1987: Van Gogh fetches record price
A painting by Vincent Van Gogh has been sold for $49m (£27m) - a world record for a work of art.
The final price was more than twice what the painting, called Irises, had been expected to reach.
The anonymous purchaser must also pay a 10% commission fee to the auction house, Sotheby's, bringing the total to $53.9m (£29.5m).
The sale was also accomplished in what may have been a record time given the figures involved - the bidding rose from the starting point of $15m (£8.5m) to reach the final sale price in less than two minutes.
Irises depicts the garden of the Saint-Remy mental asylum in France where Van Gogh was a patient.
It was painted in 1889, a few months before the artist committed suicide aged 37.
There just is no other opportunity to buy a painting like this
John Marion, Sotheby's
The previous record for a painting was set in March by another Van Gogh masterpiece, Sunflowers.
It was bought in London for just under $40m by a Japanese insurance company.
Traditionally art prices have reflected the state of the economy so in the wake of a stock market crash Irises had not been expected to fetch such a huge sum.
Sotheby's North America chairman John Marion said the sale proved the art world was "alive and well".
"This painting was beyond the stock market. It transcended the stock market. There just is no other opportunity to buy a painting like this," Mr Marion said.
Irises had been owned by John Whitney Payson, the heir to one of America's biggest fortunes.
His mother, Joan, bought it for $80,000 (£44,000) in 1947, and hung it over the fireplace in her living room.
After her death in 1975, the painting was displayed in a gallery Mr Payson built in his mother's memory. He said he decided to sell it after the record-breaking Sunflowers auction because he felt he could not guarantee the safety of a painting potentially worth $40m or more.
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Oh how thoughtful... if you had knitted them, it would be a whole different story... can't really picture a young girl rocking out at needlepoint tho hahaOriginally Posted by RoseDelight
That link didn't pop up for me.Originally Posted by SonicBones
But I've seen a few places in Europe sell Picasso, O'keefe, and some others for $400,000, or more. It depends on the painting/artist though.
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
I'd like to learn how to knit, actually.Originally Posted by DJ Russ Reign
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
a trip out of the country <twice>
and this big ass ring on my finger... lol
The big assed ring I had on my ex's finger is somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean at this very moment lolOriginally Posted by tampafldancer
Called that response... you seem like some sort of modern day renaissance woman lol...Originally Posted by RoseDelight
Speaking of Picasso, peep this ladies and gentlemen...
Sorry about that bad linkOriginally Posted by RoseDelight
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lol, should i ask?
actually to tell you the truth, the best present had to be him...
awww how sweetOriginally Posted by tampafldancer
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Sometimes that's all that it takesOriginally Posted by tampafldancer
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I totally am! One of these days I'll knit you some socks.Originally Posted by DJ Russ Reign
--Georg Christoph Litchenberg
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