How Art Savvy is the Art Whisperer?
At the age of 16, I bought my first Alexander Calder at auction. Later that year I was spellbound at The Prado museum having viewed my first few Hieronymus Bosch and […]
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No time for an art history degree . . .
Over breakfast, an intense, relatively young ER physician expressed the notion “I want to buy art intelligently, but I don’t have time to earn an art history degree or to […]
Know When to Hold Them !!!
Over 25 years ago a young man brought an impression of Edward Hopper’s Evening Wind (1921) etching to learn its value. Research supported a retail price of roughly $10,000. This […]
Size isn’t Everything
The second painting by Cliff Bahnimptewa is physically smaller, but its composition is more commanding. Implied action coupled with greater detail in the figure’s costume renders the second painting more […]
Dead or Alive, the Art Market May Not Care
Almost daily someone expresses the belief that once an artist dies, his or her work will accelerate in value. Almost daily I get to be the grinch who says “Only if […]