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Message:: [QUOTE="Mark London, post: 133348, member: 346"]One mans' trash is another man's treasure. I personally would take the Rothko over the never ending flea market finds and factory paintings that some posters seem to adore. Art is very subjective. The closest I ever came to "owning" a Rothko was in the early 1980's when I was bidding for one at Sotheby's on behalf of a client. I was authorized to bid up to $300k and I got one chance to raise my paddle at the $300k mark. There was a lull in the bidding and for what seemed like ages it looked like I was the winning bidder. Just before the gavel banged another bidder entered the game and another immediately thereafter. The painting sold for $400k. I was nervous because I only had a handshake agreement with my client and there was no way that I could have paid for the painting had he reneged on the purchase. Needless to say that the painting is worth a fortune today not that $400k was chump change in the early 80's.[/QUOTE]