Kreindler Art in the Hobby

[Klrdds]

Joey
I started buying art when I finished dental school in the 1980s for the hell of it . Then in the late 1980s i began collecting a French artist named Michel Delacroix. Then in the early 2000s I also began collecting his daughter's work Fabienne Delacroix. I now have 10 original works of theirs with very limited publishing rights for them . I haven't bought anything since 2008.
I will try to post a picture later of the Chagall crayon lithograph from his biblical series titled King David since i am not at home now.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Here is my Chagall. (1952 Felix Potin)

[irv]

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Graig...w=1280&bih=591

[MVSNYC]

Graig's work is amazing, certainly bound to appreciate; I own a Ruth study he did.

Regarding the secret "formula" that extremely valuable paintings possess...add to that, the artist's style needs to be rather revolutionary, ground-breaking, like Picasso, Pollack, Mondrian, and, believe it or not, Basquiat. His art was actually quite complex and layered with poetry, and many multi-media techniques...primitive, naive, etc. They're actually really compelling in person.

[frankbmd]

A close friend's father purchased a bunch of early works by Fangor in the late 50s and early 60s, who only recently has hit the big time in the art world. His sister has four Fangors in her dining room. The dining room is now worth over a million dollars.

He likes to paint fuzzy circles such as this.

fangor wojciech przestrzen jako gra 8_6572139.jpg

And other fuzzy stuff

fangor wojciech przestrzen jako gra 7_6572135.jpg

Could have been done with spray paint I suppose.

Why didn't i think of that?

[drcy]

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.

[Leon]

And those spray painted circles might be worth millions!! Beauty is in the eye of the (be)holder. (not)

Originally Posted by frankbmd

A close friend's father purchased a bunch of early works by Fangor in the late 50s and early 60s, who only recently has hit the big time in the art world. His sister has four Fangors in her dining room. The dining room is now worth over a million dollars.

He likes to paint fuzzy circles such as this.

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And other fuzzy stuff

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Could have been done with spray paint I suppose.

Why didn't i think of that?

[drcy]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

Graig's work is amazing, certainly bound to appreciate; I own a Ruth study he did.

Regarding the secret "formula" that extremely valuable paintings possess...add to that, the artist's style needs to be rather revolutionary, ground-breaking, like Picasso, Pollack, Mondrian, and, believe it or not, Basquiat. His art was actually quite complex and layered with poetry, and many multi-media techniques...primitive, naive, etc. They're actually really compelling in person.

True. Artists such as Constable and Renoir may seem quaint and maudlin today, but they were revolutionary visionaries for their time and influenced art since then, including abstract art.

John Constable's The Hay Wain (1921)
Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette