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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mark London, post: 133435, member: 346&quot;]Can anyone offer a quick opinion why a landscape by Monet or a portrait by Renoir might have a current value of TWENTY million dollars? The speculative aspect of art has little, if any, relation to its&#039; aesthetic value. The fact that you can recognize the subject matter does not make a painting better than one that is totally abstract. I would even agree that some of the worst art produced is abstract.&nbsp; Despite the fact that the Rothko does not &quot;portray an iota of any genre with which they are familiar&quot; it is one hell of a painting (IMHO of course).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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