>Oh, well. I’ll just use that money to bid on the masterpiece below.
According to one source, although “A Friend in Need” has never been up for sale it is valued at several million dollars.
While the Magritte painting is well crafted, depending on it’s size I’d think it worth a few thousand dollars at best.
I for one would rather have the series of 13 Poker Playing Dogs.
On a tangent, the Cleveland Museum of Art, one of the best art museums on the planet was once offered the complete body of Norman Rockwell’s work for almost nothing and they turned it down, saying that illustrators didn’t belong in a museum of fine art.
Also, the Magritte is a Da Vinci compared to the utter hideousness of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Check out the picture “Untitled 1982”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_(1982_painting)
According to me it was the work of a of a diseased and sick mind. According to Wikipedia ... “It originally sold for $4,000 in 1982.[2] It was auctioned at Christie’s in 1984 to Jerry and Emily Spiegel for $20,900. In May 2017, the painting was auctioned at Sotheby’s to Japanese businessman and art collector Yusaku Maezawa for $110.5 million.
If I were given a chance to buy it I might pay a few hundred dollars so I could paint over it and re-use a valuable chunk of canvas.