Art Myths Debunked

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Actuality: Rates escalate only when demand is greater than supply. Rates can increase if there was a shortage of the artist's function prior to his or her death and if the demand continues to be considerably greater than supply. Art News (November 2003) presented an report on the ten most wanted artworks. These would sell individually for much more than $five Million IF the present owners would let me them go. However, as...

Assumption: Art becomes more worthwhile when an artist dies.

Actuality: Costs escalate only when demand is higher than provide. Prices can increase if there was a shortage of the artist's function prior to his or her death and if the demand continues to be considerably greater than provide. Art News (November 2003) presented an report on the ten most wanted artworks. These would sell individually for more than $five Million IF the present owners would let me them go. However, as the collectors know they could not obtain a replacement painting/sculpture/drawing, they will not be promoting this page is not affiliated these artworks.

Assumption: An artist's proof is much more worthwhile than a print from the normal edition.

Actuality: Artist's proofs are routinely consistent with the typical edition in look and worth. On rare occasions, a color trial proof be judged to be a lot more useful than the standard edition or an artist's proof. this takes place when the reigning specialists establish the color trial proof represents a a lot more handsome product than the standard edition or artist's proof.

Assumption: It really is just a print.

Actuality: Some artist's do or do not decide on to paint. Their art "translates" more effectively employing an original print medium such as lithography, etching, serigraphy, or woodcuts. Some original prints have sold for more than $100,000 when accomplished by prominent artists. The only time an art expert may well utter "It's just a print" is when they are referencing a reproductive print. This is normally a photographic rendition of an current artwork, in other words, a photomechanical copy.

Why can't you value my art from photographs?

Liability

As lengthy as I am a professional art appraiser, I am held to a diverse normal than an individual functioning strictly as a dealer.

PLUS I like to be right!!!

Photographs do NOT reveal all condition issues and the public is not trained to appropriately describe them. How many of you can recognize light staining, mat burning, foxing, and so forth? These and other situation flaws substantially influence value.

A reproduction attached to canvas virtually looks the same as an original oil painting in a photograph. Unless I know which museum is at present hosting the actual painting, I cannot be perfectly sure you are displaying me a photographically generated reproduction or an actual painting when viewing a photograph. Now there are gicle prints printed on canvas and enhanced with paint, a hands-on inspection is a must.