Posted By:
davidcycleback(Not my pop)
And you complained about baseball card prices?
My retired neighbor (of normal means and background) had regularly told me about a family in the the Baltimore neighbrhood he grew up in and who's kids he played with. He said the family dad collected paintings. Since the dad bought a lot of them soon after they were painted many years ago, he got them relatively cheap ("The paint was still wet," as my neighbor says). The father died, so the family has consigned a number of the family paintings to Christies. My neighbor remembers seeing some of the paintings in person when he was a kid.
Below is one of the paintings. In particular, notice the estimated price. They are also selling off paintings by Picasso, Jackson Pollack, Joan Miro, etc, and the below painting is not the most expensive in the lot.
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?sid=&intObjectID=4597398