Regardless of the artist, how on earth
could anyone value that painting at $25??
...never mind
:)
Posted on 10/03/2016 1:18:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A painting once believed to be a $25 copy caught the eye of an art historian during the filming of a new BBC series — and turned out to be a $26 million Raphael.
The Madonna composition had been covered in dirt and hanging above a door in the dusty corner of a room in the Haddo House, one of the National Trust for Scotland’s 18th-century homes in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
“I thought, crikey, it looks like a Raphael,” the historian, Bendor Grosvenor, told The Guardian. “It was very dirty, under old varnish, which goes yellow.”
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I don't know how on earth anyone, not just an art critic or art appraiser, could possibly value a genuine painting of that quality (ie, not a print or copy) at $25. That is just insane.
...regardless of whether it was done by someone famous or not.
The article says they believed it was a contemporaneous copy by a nobody artist, and the “$25” was the equivalent of a couple thousand in current dollars.
Just being old doesn’t make articles valuable, as people who inherit old books discover to their sorrow.
Contemporaneous with Raphael, that is.
30 years ago we ,lived in London, and we called him GUSSIE!!
Thanks. Didn't get that far into the article.
Oh, I see. I didn’t know.
Regardless of the artist, how on earth
could anyone value that painting at $25??
...never mind
:)
LOL! Gilda was so funny. I always found Chevy Chase creepy; think it was the sideburns.
Yes, never liked him. Loved her.
He is related: “The name Bendor is derived from the Grosvenor family’s medieval heraldic shield, a bend or, a golden bend (diagonal stripe), which they used until 1389 when it was claimed instead by the Scrope family, in the case Scrope v. Grosvenor. Bendor is the grandson of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury, and the 4th cousin once removed of Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster.(He is fourth in line to the Marquessate of Westminster after the Earl of Wilton,Viscount Grey de Wilton,and his first cousin Alexander Grosvenor). “
My prior comment, as amended: So much for art critics and appraisers (the ones, at least as regards modern “art”, who want to tell us that crap is great).
Real art has no use for either critics or appraisers. It’s prima facie obvious to the beholder. Pay whatever you want, or can afford, for it.
Thanks, very informative.
The art market has become a way to move large sums of cash from one country to another by buying a painting at auction.
Good point!
This topic was posted , thanks nickcarraway.
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