As someone said about the film "35mm," NO LEICA.
I think the price for paintings has gone crazy. The same amount on books would create a vast library of treasures.
My advice - frame some nice prints in place of the originals. Most won't know the difference.
NPR did a piece on this a week or two ago. The woman has had for years a print of the painting of her aunt hanging in her living room and said she had no plans to replace it with the original even if she prevailed. She feels strongly that the paintings should be in a museum so that the public can see and appreciate them (or not appreciate them, as the case may be).