[SatinDoll]

I’m an art historian by education and have worked as a consultant to private parties seeking to buy art works.

I alway tell my clients to buy art that they love rather than what they think will be an investment.

Buying for investment purposes sounds good in general, but the reality is having to pass by something daily that you may come to hate. Buy what you love.

That said, I always told them that they should buy the best that an artist produced. Whenever someone insisted on buying Kinkade, I tried to direct them to his early work in oils, as that is considered his best work. If nothing was available on the market at that time, I would suggest Maxfield Parrish.

Never, never, never buy something called a ‘collectible’ anything! It is a waste of you money and has little to no resale value.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

I alway tell my clients to buy art that they love rather than what they think will be an investment.

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In that case, I’m glad I bought that “Dogs playing poker on black velvet.” I’m saving up to get a similar work, “Dogs playing pool on black velvet.”

[Utah Binger]

He should have stuck to this approach. This one from 1984 brought $8,000 at Butterfields. He like many others also got into the teepee business in the eighties. Technically he was reasonably sound. It was the trickery with the multiple editions and the multiple states that caused many of us to question his ethics aside from the sweet sickening sameness of everything. He found his own voice but it screamed and screeched schmaltz.

He would never have been invited to membership in this group.

Maynard Dixon Country

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Never, never, never buy something called a ‘collectible’ anything!***

I wish I could get that through my wife’s head about her “collectable” dolls.

Several years ago a man I worked with wanted me to do a copy of a Kinkade painting for his wife. Less than half way through I begged off claiming “copyright” laws prevented me from doing it. Actually I could not stand to look at the painting.