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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 53604, member: 23&quot;]&quot;Professor Struthers said Sears had a good run with it, but eventually had to call it off because by the 1970s, the price of the quality of art that Vincent Price was willing to put his name behind had inflated to way out of the range of Sears shoppers.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>How </b><a href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2011/10/28/the-horror-vincent-price-sells-art-for-sears/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2011/10/28/the-horror-vincent-price-sells-art-for-sears/" rel="nofollow"><b>authentic</b></a><b> were these pieces? In the page from the Sears catalog above, the signed and numbered Picasso lithograph of a bull for $560 seems plausible, but the $800 Picasso oil painting of 12 square feet in a gold leaf frame sounds a little too good to be true if you are expecting Pablo to have personally put every daub of paint on a canvas coming out of his atelier.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=G6Mnh1z81YEC&amp;pg=PT643&amp;lpg=PT643&amp;dq=%22george+struthers%22+sears&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=rycusrMy9g&amp;sig=h4muqjPxgBSAeHMdT4rP8kB2xWU&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=u90CUvaMOYXYyQHVuIDoDg&amp;ved=0CEYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;q=%22george%20struthers%22%20sears&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=G6Mnh1z81YEC&amp;pg=PT643&amp;lpg=PT643&amp;dq=%22george+struthers%22+sears&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=rycusrMy9g&amp;sig=h4muqjPxgBSAeHMdT4rP8kB2xWU&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=u90CUvaMOYXYyQHVuIDoDg&amp;ved=0CEYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;q=%22george%20struthers%22%20sears&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s</a> Price&#039;s daughter&#039;s* description of her father&#039;s business partnership with Sears. Price said this was his chance to democratize art collecting for the American public by putting to use all the tricks he&#039;d learned over the years to scrimp when buying decent quality art. That attitude seems incredibly foreign to art collecting today, which is dominated by the conspicuous consumption of the ultra-rich with almost everybody else having lost interest in the subject&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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