Some people really have no appreciation for art. $1.5 Million painting used as a bulletin board in kitchen. http://nypost.com/2015/07/22/clueless-owner-uses-1-5-million-painting-as-bulletin-board/
Art is in the eye........oh .....you get it !!! My kitchen board IS art........a collage of the highest magnitude...
My questions -- how were the "messages/ephemera" held on the painting? Were the messages confined to the framing? Ribbons criss-crossing the framing to hold the messages etc. might have been the least damaging but . . . what if the "messages" were thumb-tacked (or worse) to the painting itself? I guess there's always a possibility that the painting was turned toward the wall and all the "messages" were attached to the back of the framing. No matter which method was used, I am compelled to repeat an old saying around here -- "All his/her taste was in his/her mouth."
In assumption.....yeah...I know........ I figured pins so therefore 'pinhead'. ~ Apparently the attachment method was a vast state secret but after useless searches of pages of pap and repeat I discover this> ~ http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens...painting-turns-out-to-be-worth-1-5m-1.3164043
KingofThings, thank you for that link -- it tells/shows so much more about how it was used than the original article (link) which quoted the "finder" as saying "I was undertaking a routine valuation when I spotted this masterpiece hanging in the kitchen covered in letters, postcards and bills, . . . .”
....... so this is really another case of sensational journalism Sorry that I didn't dig a little further on this.
Verybrad, it's certainly no fault of yours that the person who was interviewed and quoted "stretched" a description of how she first saw the painting. You didn't write the article quoting the (expert) woman, so you can "sleep easy" as they say.
I wouldn't have thought it was worth a lot, either. Though I'm surprised the owners didn't research the painting, especially since the article said they're art collectors.
Yet again....pinheads.... ~ Maybe the 'reporter' missed what they said they were or there's a typo with a missing f....
I don't think of The New York Post as being very authoritative or reputable -- sort of sensationalist, isn't it? Both articles linked above are really interesting, though. In my office at work is a bulletin board that I use as sort of an art gallery. Really more of an ephemera gallery. It includes things like individual earrings that I've found on the ground, on sidewalks and parking lots, over a period of years. Also things that come in the mail that have interesting images on them. But I never would have thought of the opposite... using a painting as a bulletin board. I like the idea, but it would have to be a worthless painting, not a valuable one!
It includes things like individual earrings that I've found on the ground, there's one on my board right now....
I wouldn't pay a bag of festering dogs**t for the NY Crimes. None of them actually. The rags don't seem to call me anymore. When they did I told them I didn't fish, I didn't have a bird nor was I training an animal so I didn't need the 'news'paper.
That would be a great way to repurpose a framed print or painting that isn't valuable! I just might do that with some that I have and sell them on Etsy....
