« 6TH POPE Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next

Re: Latest Auction Win

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 25 Jul 23 12:17 AM | 26 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board
Msg. 44509 of 58574
(This msg. is a reply to 44501 by Decomposed)

Jump:
Jump to board:
Jump to msg. #

would you be willing to sell it for half a million dollars?


- - - - -
View Replies (1) »



» You can also:
- - - - -
The above is a reply to the following message:
Latest Auction Win
By: Decomposed
in 6TH POPE
Mon, 24 Jul 23 2:54 AM
Msg. 44501 of 58574

The latest auction didn't go so well for me in terms of quantity but I'm happy. I only spent $29 plus a 20% auctionhouse fee, so $34.80. For that, I got a fancy strobe light, a vase, and a framed sketch.

But... about that sketch:

It was listed toward the end. Going into the auction, it had zero bids. I thought it was kind of nice though, so I had my wife put an early $1 bid on it. Then I did a little research and got kind of jazzed. I had a considerably higher ceiling in mind, but as it turned out, that was all it took. There were no other bids. I got it for one dollar.

The sketch was done by Emily Burling Waite ( Born Worcester, MA 1887 - Died 1980 ). The Smithsonian Institute art website has a page devoted to her and owns eight of her etchings!
http://americanart.si.edu/search/artworks?content_type=artwork&persons[]=6013 Per Wikipedia, "Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian American Art Museum; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art." And I just landed an original of hers for a measly buck.



« 6TH POPE Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next