As an an art historian and a baseball card collector, the financial focus on in the areas (record prices, PSA registry, commoditization, appearance on CNN Money, etc) has always been a bore to me.
A good story is about Amedeo Modigliani, who lived and died in poverty and who's paintings now sell for $100+ million. He would sell his paintings on the Paris streets, and sold one to a tourist. The tourist returned a few minutes later and asked Modigliani to sign the painting, because someone just told her that a painting is worth more when it is signed by the artist. Modigliani took the painting, wrote his name in giant letters across the center of the painting, ruining it and handed it back to her.
Last edited by drcy; 05-21-2017 at 11:55 PM.
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