If you were a billionaire,would you?

It's the name John. Not the form. Although some Hockney stuff I do like.

There was a painting sold locally that was estimated at a few hundred, maybe the very very low thousands. If that even. It sold for two hundred thousand and in fact some said would eventually make five million. Still the same painting all throughout. So the exact form remained unchanged. Except that instead of a form "Italian school" it now had a name. Titian.

Same as all those sidelock shotguns Webley made for William Evans, Army & Navy CSL, and/or everybody else and the difference in price they make in the saleroom today.

The name. Not the form.

£500 portrait could turn out to be £5m Titian
 
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never much understood this kinda stuff, objects that cost the gdp of a small country,, at least it's actually identifiable as to what it portrays I think nothing says "look at how stinking rich I am" more than wasting obscene amounts of cash on painting,vases, coloured eggs and such like, still their money eh, lots of things I don't "get", like a mate of mines son spends almost all his waking hours with his head wrapped in some kind of "virtual reality" headset affair,,, rants about how "lifelike" it is,, doesn't seem to get through to him that "actual reality" begins when he removes the headset. I tried it on once,,, **** poor substitute for reality if you ask me.

not too hard to see how apathetic they become in later life when most of what occurs in their world is created by programming.

edited to show I just spotted this,, in the for sale section,,
AI AT with a bartlien 1-7 twist 28” long 6.5 creedmoor barrel. It’s fluted & theaded 18x1.5

Currently on 556 rounds. Full load data to go with the rifle.

I prefer that to any old painting or glorified gameboy.
 
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No, I'd buy a place/plot of immense acerage next door to you mate,

And one in Scotland, Canada, Alaska etc etc etc

With lodges built on each one lol lol

Kjf
 
It's a damn good painting in its treatment of light and water. Few better. So I guess it's all relative. If you've got billions, a mere 100 million smackers is small change for a rock solid, gold plated investment masterpiece. If you haven't got billions it's slightly obscene. But then if you live in a shop doorway, spending a £4000 rifle or £500 on a coat just to shoot pheasants in six times a year is probably pretty obscene too.
 
Do you realise how much stalking that would pay for, not to mentionthe amount you could help kids charity, in your country, not the bleeding hearts abroad that pay their CEO megabucks
Ray
 
Quality art is a good investment if you have the funds

One this artist dies, I bet that painting doubles in price

Hes 82 so its likely to be soon ish
 
I stopped any giving to any charity anything except the Royal British Legion after I read how much they pay the Chief Executives.
Exactly my point,,,, charities are businesses these days with CEOs getting megga bucks, and very little going to those it is intended for
 
Worth, value and price have very different meanings, worth is what an individual is willing to pay. The picture is quite simply sh*te, a rather effeminate man with zero dress sense perving at what looks like another effeminate man in a pool I think it is worth £10
 
No way would I buy what my Great granddaughter could paint.
An " Old Master" with the fantastic detail they produced maybe.
I think I would rather put half in the Legion and the other to build another Kid's Hospice, which are the charities I would support better if I had more bread.
 
I expect that much of this art work is traded as an investment or commodity. Rather than from any interest in it as a piece of work.

There was that street artist who recently sold a piece of work that shreaded itself. Some bidder may have had a heart attack at the time, but I bet that is now worth far more than the hammer price, because of the media coverage it attracted.
 
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