how much do you think this painting is worth?

[Printer Bandit]

 

[mmntech]

It's a pretty famous painting IIRC. Name of the artist escapes me though. Definitely in the millions.

Edit: Looked it up. It's a Paul Gauguin. Yeah, it's worth a lot.

 

[Maximilian]

$10

 

[IronWing]

Not a Naer thread?

 

[edro]

Diego Rivera?

 

[IronWing]

Diego Rivera?

No, 'e went in the woods.

 

[SKORPI0]

$10

Close to $300 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Will_You_Marry?

When Will You Marry? (Tahitian: Nafea faa ipoipo) is an oil painting from 1892 by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. On loan to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland for nearly a half-century, it was sold privately by the family of Rudolf Staechelin to an unknown buyer, reportedly to Qatar Museums, in February 2015 for close to $300m (£197m), the highest price ever paid for a work of art.[1][2][3] The painting is on exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, until 28 June 2015.[4]

 

[Fern]

Looks like a Gauguin to me. If authentic it's worth an awful lot I expect.

Fern

 

[hanoverphist]

ummm 300 million.

 

[Maximilian]

Looks like something my gran would have at the end of the hallway.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay yada yada but why someone decided that was worth $300 million is beyond me lol.

Instead you could have a 45 bedroom house:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4537252/45-bedroom-house-sale-300-million.html

Or two of these:
http://gizmodo.com/someone-just-bought-a-house-in-l-a-for-102-million-1556489933
with money left over for a helicopter.

Or buy shares in something, turn it into 600 million etc. But no, lets spend it on an average looking painting with two fat chicks. Brilliant :awe:

 

[Captante]

ummm 300 million.

Amazing. IMO its ugly.

 

[Bock]

When you didn't really work for your money{running a company, etc etc is still extremely challenging work} but instead had others work to make you money, buying expensive things doesn't phase you the same way.

#Income Inequality is going to be the death of America & most likely civilization.

 

[dud]

Eleventy Billion Dollars ...

 

[Krazy4Real]

About tree fiddy

 

[Daemyion]

When you didn't really work for your money{running a company, etc etc is still extremely challenging work} but instead had others work to make you money, buying expensive things doesn't phase you the same way.

#Income Inequality is going to be the death of America & most likely civilization.

Why does this irk you so? The money didn't disappear. If anything, it went from someone who doesn't 'value' it, to someone who presumably does, and perhaps will invest it in a 'better' way.
It's capitalism working as intended.

 

[SlickSnake]

Well, I think it was painted mostly to fit a decorator theme that was (and still is) popular which is a primitive art or an island style motif. And it was painted to be a focal point for the design and color of a room, like a solarium or a garden room. And it uses color in such a way that it would match other similar paintings if hung in a group. But what do I know.

 

[SlitheryDee]

For me? Nothing.

He painted monkey feet on that woman. Is that racist?

 

[Bock]

Why does this irk you so? The money didn't disappear. If anything, it went from someone who doesn't 'value' it, to someone who presumably does, and perhaps will invest it in a 'better' way.
It's capitalism working as intended.

The 'haves' spending money doesn't irk me at all. It's how they got to be the 'haves' & more importantly just how much they have vs the 'have nots'.

The movie "In Time" made an impression on me. Eventually, medical breakthroughs will increase lifetimes vastly. The poor will die, the rich will live.

 

[SlitheryDee]

The 'haves' spending money doesn't irk me at all. It's how they got to be the 'haves' & more importantly just how much they have vs the 'have nots'.

I dunno why anyone worries about that. Relative to the uber rich, I'm certainly a "have not". My life is still better than the lives of people with equivalent jobs in eras past. I feel no need to compare myself to the elite. It gains me nothing, and can only serve to depress me if I obsess over it. As far as I'm concerned, the income gap can get as large as it needs to as long as the baseline living standard in our society continues to rise. But then I don't spend my letting my perception of other people's lives eat me up with envy. It's an animal instinct that is as base as the one a chimp feels when he smashes another chimp over the head for a morsel of food, and I won't lower myself to it.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Do you know the term "stupid rich", "bragging rights" and "prestige ownership?"

I do recognize a Gauguin painting as history talls a rather tragic painter.

 

[Slew Foot]

lol, art people

 

[WHAMPOM]

Why does this irk you so? The money didn't disappear. If anything, it went from someone who doesn't 'value' it, to someone who presumably does, and perhaps will invest it in a 'better' way.
It's capitalism working as intended.

Dream on. That is just money going from one rich man's pocket into another rich man's pocket.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Dream on. That is just money going from one rich man's pocket into another rich man's pocket.

Pretty much. It's like saying "I have so much money but instead of giving it to charity I just want to buy a picture that I could have gotten a kid to draw for me". To be fair, there's usually more to the drawing than the drawing itself. Like something recovered from a ship wreck that was drawn by the captain himself would be worth lot of money because of the history behind it.

 

[JM Aggie08]

I purchased something from At Home last week for $60, that is twice the size and looks nicer.

 

[Daemyion]

Dream on. That is just money going from one rich man's pocket into another rich man's pocket.

Can't dispute that in this case, but as long as the money is in motion it'll find it's way to an investor. Heck, even now it may be used to buy 300 millions dollars worth of 'the next big thing' in artistry.
Still can't see how this sale can be considered a bad thing. Static money is the enemy.