Featured large Warhol museum poster

nah, here in devon we only have museums on fishing farming and cider making

would do if i could though

 

Shame because you have such a great eye.

Debora

 

we did go to the two main london ones on a school trip when studying art A level and remember being blown away by the lady of Shalott, remember it being massive
its also my mums favourite painting so thats probably why

 

You like the Pre-Raphaelites then. I was always fond of Burne-Jones 'King Copethua and the Beggar Maid.'

Debora

 

Ooh you have an absolute embarrassment of riches in your country. Obviously London is the epicenter of them but even the little ones I would die to go to. I would visit and spend weeks in UK museums alone! Definitely worth a train ride to me if I lived there.

The "snobbery" is unfortunately the foundation of the Art Market and Art World in general hah. There is a very real hierarchy in museums and art.

Big museums are prestigious and have lots of money which translates to exclusive events or world dominating exhibitions that get put on once every multiple decades. It's a huge, expensive endeavor to put on a good show. Lots of borrowing from other museums and private collectors. Very large security and insurance bill, etc. So posters from those type of events are a cut above.

The place yours came from was a tourist place. So like....a show for people who aren't as interested in art, and as such had less interesting pieces, and less of them. Vegas is known for producing entertainment that is cheaper or a veneer of something better. That's why the poster, especially of this condition, may not be worth much.

But like Debora I would be super happy to be very wrong about it and see you make good money. Can't hurt to try!

 

ahh got ya, does make sense thinking about it, people in the uk might not be so familiar with the details so don't think that will make a lot of difference

until they google image my picture of the poster and find out of course

that is a genuine problem at the moment, no more bargain boasting as it can put buyers right off, i think it would me

 

I get that a museum as part of the Venetian consortium (or whatever it is) is a purely commercial venture. But they also hosted exhibitions of paintings by Rubens, van Dyck and Jordaens, and other 'high' art from top museums.
(As an Anthonie van Dyck fan I had to speak up.)