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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 9491307, member: 1476"]No one is getting $4,500 for a portrait online. That's an asking price, not a sales price. (Assume you're referring to this portrait.)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.blueiris-irisbleu.com/product-page/portrait-of-young-girl-gouache-painting-by-max-moreau" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.blueiris-irisbleu.com/product-page/portrait-of-young-girl-gouache-painting-by-max-moreau" rel="nofollow">https://www.blueiris-irisbleu.com/product-page/portrait-of-young-girl-gouache-painting-by-max-moreau</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>I would suspect the resale value of a school girl portrait would be quite low. It's my understanding that collectors are more interested in portraits of pretty, young children or pretty, young women. If you can identify the sitter, there may be some family interest. (To do so, you would have to carefully open up the backing, making sure to preserve the gallery sticker, and see if the name of the sitter is written inside.) It's not unlikely though that it was put on the market when the original sitter died and no family member wanted her portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 9491307, member: 1476"]No one is getting $4,500 for a portrait online. That's an asking price, not a sales price. (Assume you're referring to this portrait.) [URL]https://www.blueiris-irisbleu.com/product-page/portrait-of-young-girl-gouache-painting-by-max-moreau[/URL] I would suspect the resale value of a school girl portrait would be quite low. It's my understanding that collectors are more interested in portraits of pretty, young children or pretty, young women. If you can identify the sitter, there may be some family interest. (To do so, you would have to carefully open up the backing, making sure to preserve the gallery sticker, and see if the name of the sitter is written inside.) It's not unlikely though that it was put on the market when the original sitter died and no family member wanted her portrait. Debora[/QUOTE]
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