Posted on 11/19/2023 11:25:41 AM PST by nickcarraway
A former New York City dog walker thought he was going to get a $10 million payday when a painting he’d come to own by a famous artist — whose works sell for millions of dollars — went to auction this week.
The retiree, who is living off Social Security, was devastated when the painting sold for a meager $40,000. Mark Herman, 68, of Manhattan, said he had a vision while on psychedelic mushrooms that the painting by the late abstract artist Chuck Close would be worth $10 million.
But that drug-induced dream crumbled as he watched the work sell for a fraction of that in Dallas on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. “I’m really disappointed,” he admitted. “But then, I think, if I had a lot of money it would put a lot of pressure on me.
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Chuck, is that the artists name or his method of producing said art?
Geometric wind-screen effect? I always thought it looked like a cheesy photoshop filter. But you are probably right.
I would set fire to that piece of crap. I hope that I can, soon, unsee that mess.
$10,000,000? The dog walker should be institutionalized, ASAP, with the person who pissed away $40,000 on that garbage.
Time will tell if the new owner puts it back on the auction block and the price goes up.
Chuck Close is not known for his abstract expressionism. In fact, this is the first abstract I can recall seeing of his. Probably why it didn’t bring anything close to what his work usually brings. The provenance of that painting is questionable in my mind. Did that lawyer put it in writing? All it says in the article is that he said “Take it”.
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