Think collector car prices are insane? Try to fit this one in your noggin without boggling it: Sotheby's will be auctioning a set of seven paintings of Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird. Expected to fetch a minimum $2.4mm, though they will probably go much higher. Not Old Masters, either: they were painted in 1997 by Jack Vettriano as a commission for Brit zillionaire Terence Conran, to decorate his London restaurant 'Bluebird,' which was named in honor of the car. Story here... http://www.nysun.com/article/61395
PS - The one in the linked picture sold yesterday for 468,000 UK pounds, or about $900,000 US, by itself... PPS- Vettriano was reportedly paid a commission of 1000 pounds ($1900) for each painting in 1997.
I'm not an art critic but that sky looks a smog blue more reminiscent of San Bernardino than Bonneville.......................
I don't get it. I didn't think anything painted in the last ten years was worth anywhere near that amount. I guess that's why I'm into cars, motorcycles and women rather than art, wine and homeowner's associations....
"Mr. Vettriano went on to become Britain's most reproduced artist." I think when someone's art is reproduced so much people get really excited about having the original. Everyone has a print, but I have the real one. The prints really promote the artist and that drives up the demand. That's my take anyway. It's really pretty funny, it's like how you can get a repro 32 grill shell from anywhere, it just makes people want real ones more.. almost doesn't make sense, but it does.
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