Painting bought for $50 at barn sale expected to fetch up to $200,000

UPI ^ | October 03, 2024 | Ben Hooper

[Jamestown1630]

She did much better totem pole painting than that one.

[PGR88]

much Canadian art seems to be based on totem poles and indigenous art

[Steve_Seattle]

It was overpriced at $50. There are lots of 5th-graders who could do better.

[Larry Lucido]

I wonder what my 1990 Kramer would be worth now?

[lodi90]

No mystery here. It was “legibly signed”= he googled her name and figured it was worth a punt for $50.

[Paladin2]

I wouldn’t pay $50 for that thing.

[Red Badger]

Not surprising seeing that the country is snowed in for 8 months of the year and that’s what is sticking out..........🙄

[Flavious_Maximus]

Known as junk art. Just have a look at that crayon pine tree in the background. Hunter Biden’s splash art is worth more. /spit

[Jamestown1630]

Look at some of her other paintings. She did interesting things with color and brush strokes. (Of course, if you’re a dyed-in-the-wool realist, you won’t get it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Carr#/media/File:Emily_Carr_(1939)_Odds_and_Ends.jpg

[philman_36]

I'll bet he goes back and gives some of the money from the sell to the person it was purchased from since he got it at such a steal.

/extreme sarcasm

[TexasGator]

[Red Badger]

1912 was in the period of the Cubists, Fauvists, the Abstractionists, Surrealism..............

[Jamestown1630]

She didn’t do abstraction, though; she still wanted to paint things in a representative way with some of the modern influences in style.

[Red Badger]

I think this style falls under the Fauvism genre..............

[Red Badger]

Fauvism Ping?...............

[Jamestown1630]

Yes, she traveled and studied in France.

[Red Badger]

It shows.................

[TexasFreeper2009]

wouldn’t pay a $1 for that pos.

[gundog]

His photography might fetch a pretty penny....