Is anyone investing in art?

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  1. wrcmad

    wrcmad Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    I didn't spend enough to care less about provenance. Not sure what they are worth now...? I've had them for years.
    I hadn't really thought about selling... I just like having Picasso's hanging on my wall - they are great conversation pieces, and not many other have 'em. They have a sort of shits'n'giggles uniqueness about them.
    I think that's the attraction to my coin fettish too.

    Nope, I'll let you do the Google searching... it was that long ago I can't even remember the exact dealers.
    I can remember I purchased one in a dealer somewhere in Spain.
    Another I bought when I stumbled across a Picasso exhibition in the New York Metropolitan Art Museum, and there was a art dealer selling related stuff in the Museum reception.
    I didn't search them out... just stubbled across them and bought on the spur of the moment.
     
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    House Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Picasso's work is in the thousands, plenty available at more 'reasonable' prices. His daughter started selling some of the 10,000 works she has laying around last year.
     
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    I have often thought of investing in art, but really dont know were to start...

    Cheers, HAPPY STACKING :)
     
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    The problem with art is the gallery commission, anywhere from 30 to 40%. I bought a Norman Lindsay in 1970 for $2,000, sold it in 1975 for $3,000 to go to Europe. After commission I need up with $2,000.

    I have some art work now that I buy directly from the artists, but I will never buy and sell through a gallery.
     
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