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RE: 🎨 Dark is Dark... or is it? - "Encounter"

in #art7 years ago

yes, so true.
This what happened to me one time when I brought a painting in for framing to my gallerist. Following day he phoned me and asked if I sell it, he has a customer. This was a long time ago, when my hourly wage was about $ 2.- and you were living like Croesus if you made 100 bucks a week. I did not want to let this go, so to scare off the customer, I said 1,500.- - he called me back a short while later: SOLD!
To put this into perspective, my last hourly wage before retirement in 2006 was $ 26.50.
Unfortunately I never had a photo of it, except a corner of it is showing on an old studio-portrait of mine.

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Haha, did that too once... long ago. The client actually added 100,- Mark tip, because I was so "cooperative" 🤪

I believe there are collectors out there that don't even take a second look if something is 'inexpensive' - they buy stuff for bragging rights to show their friends.
When I exhibited at the Grand Salon in Bas Säckingen, there was this nice young Italian artists, Elisa Bertolini, quite talented, who showed a striking large portrait of a homeless man - the price was one tenth of what other paintings there were. Pavlina and I counselled her about pricing. I said if somebody doesn't snap that up right away, then there must really be something wrong with the crowd. But you might as well just give it away.

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would you believe € 750,-? I said she is nuts!