My Valuable Painting...

[Bbbananas]

..the one I was hoping would be my fortune?
I have had it valued. For those who advised me and were interested, it is valued at a whopping incredible huge ginormous ....da da daaaah -

£150

:-(

[Peter Pedant]

what did they say it was ?

Dicko's deal has a few well painted victorian paintings with pathetic valuations - like it would cost more to reframe than it would to buy a painting that has obviously taken someone many hours.


Davina McCall did quite well to pass a painting in the queue and say
that is a dick van dyck ( and it was )
she did say she had spent the previous nine months looking at them.

[wolf63]

When I first volunteered in our Oxfam bookshop I thought that really old books would always be valuable. It was such an anticlimax when I tried to value one that I was convinced would bring in thousands. It didn't work out like that. It had been mass produced and although over a hundred years old it was only worth about £20.

Enjoy spending your £150 on something frivolous.

[Bbbananas]

It's going towards my Divorce Fund wolf !!!

It's an original signed watercolour by the Welsh artist Chris Griffin in 1985. Born 1945 his painting style had changed quite dramatically over the years - his paintings have become bolder, more abstract.

If I had one of his more recent ones, I could put another 0 on the valuation, but unfortunately this is one of his earlier works, a nice Welsh landscape but not so popular these days.

[mccfluff]

doesnt mean it won't be popular in 100 years....

hows things?

[Bbbananas]

I'll be dead then...

I'm fine and dandy mcfluff. So very not dead. :-)

[shoota]

My 1.5 - 3 million Dutch Master oil turned out to be a Victorian copy......

[snags]

''unfortunately this is one of his earlier works''

Have a scratch at one of the corners: you never know, there might be one of his more recent ones underneath ;-p

[Bbbananas]

:-)

[snags]

If you don't want to keep it, ebay it with a £150 reserve?

[Bbbananas]

It's gone in a local fine art auction with a £100 reserve. They take quite a percentage though, I should have read the small print...

[Peter Pedant]

one can google Chris griffin artist wales
and there is quite a lot

does it have a lot of red in it ?

and .... which auction house ?