[ETL]

So the take-away from this is that a $25 painting is - or can be - just as good as a $26M painting. So much for the “art” market.

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.

[Tax-chick]

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.

[Tax-chick]

Contemporaneous with Raphael, that is.