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(~$9.1m) Van Gogh - Sotheby's - Oct 9 2021
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kip595
·They not only took your watches but also the art on the walls?? They really had to know what they were looking at!
At the time I was unfortunately temporarily in an area where if your place was broken into, it got pretty much emptied. There are certain areas of SoCal I do NOT miss.
I hear that particular area of *mblmblcougmbml* has gentrified nicely since. :/
It did however make me a firm believe in insuring high value items - thank God my otherwise crazy ex-gf had talked me into that before we moved there! 😵💫
*Haven't found any pics of my own small painting, but it was similar to single figure from the much more famous 'Youth Circle':
My only other piece worth anything was a Viktor Sheleg similar to:
The other stuff was all inexpensive prints and posters - I actually miss some of the movie posters the most!
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JwRosenthal
·At the time I was unfortunately temporarily in an area where if your place was broken into, it got pretty much emptied. There are certain areas of SoCal I do NOT miss.
I hear that particular area of *mblmblcougmbml* has gentrified nicely since. :/
It did however make me a firm believe in insuring high value items - thank God my otherwise crazy ex-gf had talked me into that before we moved there! 😵💫
*Haven't found any pics of my own small painting, but it was similar to single figure from the much more famous 'Youth Circle':
My only other piece worth anything was a Viktor Sheleg similar to:
The other stuff was all inexpensive prints and posters - I actually miss some of the movie posters the most!
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Walrus
·Funny; that's where I saw Irises, and around the same time - NYC has great museums all-around, but the Getty may be my favorite - it just feels so...intimate compared to some of the others.
Saw a retrospective on Edward Hopper there with I think 2-dozen + originals loaned from collections all over the world a few years later, extraordinarily different, but no less extraordinary for it, IMHO.
As to the OP; the art world is strange and even popular artists have polarizing works. I too suspect this will go above estimate, which seems pandemic-cautious conservative at the least. But I also once scored an original Picasso (albeit small) for less than 3k incl. buyer's premium, simply because it wasn't one of his large boisterous pieces but a simple almost-doodle for a friend - loved that painting. Sadly it was taken when my original watch collection was stolen about 4-5 years back - I'll have to see if I have a pic of it somewhere in my old files tonight.
Very cool post, @marcn
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kip595
·I liked the post because that was amazing getting a Picasso like that but it actually hurt when I read you had that and watches stolen. I can’t imagine how you must have felt, sympathies
That's kind of you but no worries mate; things like that put the things that matter most in perspective - friends, sights seen, all of that - I mean sure I miss some individual items but I'm at peace with it. 😀
Cheers all!
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myatt
·Fantastic series. The level of investigation and analysis is incredible. Interesting to see there are institutes, like the wildenstein that control whether or not a painting for a specific artist can be sold as genuine by an auction house.
Not sure if this was meant to be a positive comment on the Wildenstein Institute - the rejection of the S1E1 Monet was controversial enough to show their "control" over the art world rather than technical scholarship over the evidence submitted in S1E1. Don't we know how much inclination the big auction houses have in researching items they put up for sale....easier if someone rubber stamps it, plausible deniability cover too...same play book of the Too Big To Fail banks, who used the rating agencies (although more egregiously some might say).
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marcn
·Very enjoyable presentation:
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·Sold for ~$9.1m USD, at the very lowest end of the estimate. I’m surprised by this.
I’d own this over, say, half of Paul Newman’s Paul Newman any day.
I’d own this over, say, half of Paul Newman’s Paul Newman any day.
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perks713
·Growing up in Connecticut we had the luxury of going into the city to museums and taking class trips to DC. Trips to Boston were in the mix too. 10 years ago I was able to get to the Louvre for a day (quick 48 hour stop in Paris in the middle of some Oktoberfest shenanigans) and could have spent weeks admiring everything.
I’m in Vermont now and even that extra few hours worth of travel make trips to nice museums few and far between. I took a lot of those opportunities for granted.
I’m in Vermont now and even that extra few hours worth of travel make trips to nice museums few and far between. I took a lot of those opportunities for granted.
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Syrte
·Just saw this small but spooky and exceptional piece today at the Louis Vuitton foundation, painted 3 months before he died and while he was waiting to exit the psychiatric ward in Saint-Remy de Provence where he had been voluntarily committed.
He was waiting for another place to go- and ended up in Auvers sur Oise where he died 3 months later.
The painting belongs to a famous Russian collection which is split between the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Needless to say it might be hard to see it anywhere else.
PS does anyone know how much the OP went for anyway?
He was waiting for another place to go- and ended up in Auvers sur Oise where he died 3 months later.
The painting belongs to a famous Russian collection which is split between the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Needless to say it might be hard to see it anywhere else.
PS does anyone know how much the OP went for anyway?
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JwRosenthal
·9,122,013.01 United States Dollars
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerJust saw this small but spooky and exceptional piece today at the Louis Vuitton foundation, painted 3 months before he died and while he was waiting to exit the psychiatric ward in Saint-Remy de Provence where he had been voluntarily committed.
This painting reminds me of the summer I worked at a psychiatric hospital, that had a medium security forensic ward. Those patients (violent and dangerous) were let out into a similar looking enclosed yard for 1 hour per day, and they did exactly what you see there...walk in circles.
It was the most interesting summer job I ever had...working the 4 pm to 1 am shift...
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Walrus
·Weird to say but 9 million for a Van Gogh sounds like a good deal. I was reading an interview with Jack Nicholson a few years back and he took time to show the interviewer the art collection in his home (or one of them) it including a Monet hanging in his bathroom. Nicholson said he didn’t like reading on the toilet and would rather look at art. That’s kinda when you know you have arrived, I think.
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BlackTalon
··This Space for Rent
Weird to say but 9 million for a Van Gogh sounds like a good deal. I was reading an interview with Jack Nicholson a few years back and he took time to show the interviewer the art collection in his home (or one of them) it including a Monet hanging in his bathroom. Nicholson said he didn’t like reading on the toilet and would rather look at art. That’s kinda when you know you have arrived, I think.
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asloper6001
·The first time I went to the Getty museum, around 2006 I think, they were incredibly lax with how close you could get to the art - as long as you didn't physically touch it, you could be as close as you wanted to be. The first piece I saw where I was blown away was Jacques Louis-David's "Napoleon on a White Horse". I was able to get a nose length away from it looking at the details on the piece. It had been a corner piece of a lecture I'd had in college, and to see it in person was incredible.
But the highlight of the day was seeing Van Gogh's "Irises":
And while it is one of the very few paintings under glass at the Getty (if I recall correctly, although you can't tell from my picture), you can still get very close to it.
6 inches is the rule. Don't ask me how I know. haha
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JwRosenthal
·6 inches is the rule. Don't ask me how I know. haha
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Archer
··Omega Qualified Watchmaker
