Going down this path reveals another problem with art collecting. They collect Picasso, Warhol, Dali, Miro, Chagall, Calder and the like. Properly framing and storing art is yet another source of significant expense and headaches.ģ) Some people (perhaps wisely) decide to outsource their taste to art-historical consensus. Art also takes up a ton of space and is a huge pain to pack and ship. There’s a near infinite amount of work out there, almost all of it worthless. 99% of art is less valuable than the frame it’s in. That’s if you’re lucky enough to have bought work that actually has ANY value in the secondary market to begin with. Buying and selling work can easily cost 50% or more of the value of the art. Auction houses charge a huge vig (sometimes more than 20% each to buyer and seller), sales taxes, as well as shipping and storage costs. For starters, transaction costs can be enormous. That’s when you learn the second problematic thing about collecting art, namely that:Ģ) Transacting in art (especially selling art) can be a nightmare. If you’re lucky in your art collecting journey, you may in fact develop better taste, but that will come with the sad realization that all your early acquisitions are complete dross. People who think they have taste but actually don’t tend to confidently amass big collections of garbage art that has little aesthetic or financial value. Problematically, almost no one THINKS they have terrible taste in art. I’m an art collector and have been at least tangentially involved in the New York art scene for over 15 years.Ĭollecting art is challenging for a bunch of reasons, including:ġ) Most people (especially beginning collectors) have terrible taste in art. If you're familiar with names, I have works from Alan Davis, Chris Bachalo, J Scott Campbell, Joe Benitez, Adam Hughes, Carlos Pagaluyan, Amanda Conner, Tim Finch, Aaron Lopresti, Ed Benes, and many more that I cannot easily think of off the top of my head.
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They also hearken back to my childhood, teen years, and misspent adult life, as well as the road not taken for me in career choice (once upon a time, I thought I was going to be a professional artist now I'm just a professional patron of the arts). This would include simple pages, splash pages, double page spreads, and covers.įor me, these are artifacts of a bygone era most major publishers do everything digitally now, and frankly, I would expect the publishing arm of either DC or Marvel (or both) to cease operations within the next 10 years. Click to expand.I collect original comic art, representing the original cardstock pencils - and often times, inked - work that comic book artists used to do back before Photoshop and Cintiq tablets became ubiquitous.
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