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Yes, I mis-read your original also. I see you did say painting, like a lithograph.
If it is a painting, it would have to the one and only original that photo offset prints came from later. If it is “the one and only original”, then like Ryanne says, “thousands” or more. Yes a museum piece and after appraisal, then auction house in NYC.
Sothey’s has a quick appraisal service and if they find evidence of authenticity and have an interest they will take the appraisal further. Check out Sotheby’s web site on this link:
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auction-estimates.html to start the “get an Estimate” process.Now to make doubly sure, you want to discover if you have a Giclee print on canvass [copy] then it is embellished on top with clear gel over the print underneath to simulate brush strokes. The best way to do this is with a strong magnifier. Take at least a 10x or better 20x loupe and then top closely at the brush strokes. What you are looking for is two things. Fisrt, is if the direction and motion of the brush strokes follow the same shape and contours of the obejct that is being defined. If the black areas [your image] are going vertical and the brush strokes are going across it, then this may be an embellished print. Second you want to look at different angles at the brush strokes and see if the strokes have any height to them and if so, if you catch the light just right, are the higher tips of the paint seem “clear” of solid with color. If clear then it would indicate a “clear over coat”.
Now this may not be bad because it could still be an original painting but with a clear protective varnish on top of the paint. That is very common. But back in those time periods the use of a varnish coat was usually applied as a thinner coat just for protective reasons. Not to simulate “brush strokes”. The simulation of top surface brush strokes is more of a modern techniques which has become popular due to the invention of Acrylic paints [1960’s] and forward. Then even more often used as Liquitex developed the formulas for thicker matte and clear Gel Mediums Coats.
In todays modern world, all of the discount stores are loaded with Giclee prints, which are highly fine reproductions from high level Ink Jet printers that do not use the typical litho half tone dot patterns, but a fine mist spray from the ink jet heads. Then these prints are quickly over coated with thick clear gel to simulate brush strokes and then passed off as original paintings. Goodwills are full of them, so are TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, World Market, Target, Walmarts, etc., etc ad nauseum. Most people now a days can’t tell the difference. Just another problem we have with China. But that’s another story.
Hopefully this sheds some more light on the “painting” you have.
Running an Ebay store is like playing a round of Golf. You may not have the best score number wise, but as long as you are always moving the ball forward, you know you are playing the game correctly!
And don’t forget one of Jay and Ryanne’s mantras. .. ABL [Always Be Listing}. 🙂 🙂
Same for me. Honor the Sale. We are responsible for monitoring our store, our merchandise, and our policies. About 3 weeks ago I used a template that had a dollar $1 for the default price for a pair of womens, black Brighton shoes. Forgot to change the price and it sold within a day or two for the dollar. Luckily it did not have free shipping on it, but if it had, I would have still sent it to the buyer and just absorbed the loss and chalked it up to the cost of doing business.
Hey Christine:
Yep found it. Sorted by highest price sold on July 2016 for $90 framed. Now consider couple of things.. It is a reproduction [4 color offset lithograph printed only in CMYK colors], the signature is captured from the original and reproduced in the plates and the cost of the frame, which is probably worth about half the price.
The fact that the one you have is as you say “a different color scheme”. usually CMYK litho repros try to match the original painting as closely as possible. But if you have an image, that is EXACTLY the same image, then it has been exposed to a very large amount of sunlight and some of the colors have faded out. I can spot repo’s from 50 feet away in the antique mall booths. They are all a bluish, purplish color. The yellow and red colors are not light fast and fade quickly. Any repro, DVD, album covers, posters, art print, anything that has that bluish-purplish overall colorization is a cheap repro. that is faded and not worth the sheet of paper it is printed on.
This artist is very interesting because not only did he work in the Bauhaus group, but worked in Italy for advertising clients and the Joseph Albers, author of the interaction of color, which his color theory is still taught in art schools today, invited him to the USA and he taught at the Black Mountain College of Art here in the US. Some other artist from the Bauhaus school that are worth researching or at least looking at some of there art is Paul Klee. Paul Klee was a Swiss-German painter, Oskar Schlemmer. Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school, and László Moholy-Nagy.
The Bauhaus was a German group of artist and designers with their focus on “Form Follows Function” motto, where most of them were designers of industrial, functional, utilitarian objects which in turn got manufactured. things like dinnerware, flatware, blenders, furniture, room settings and things like that. Anything from Bauhaus artist group are highly collectible and bring high prices. MOMA [the Museum of Modern Art] has a large collection of Bauhaus designed items and many Danish Modern and Office Furniture still bought today are of the Bauhaus design. Some metal chairs go for thousands of dollars. The plastic style chairs that Jay and ryanne sold some time back and others like those are again, variations of the modernist Bauhaus designs. Very interesting subject and group of artists and worth maybe looking up just for your knowledge base. Will help when watching out for MCM type of furniture and home decorative accessories.
It came after the Art Deco period but was the fore runner of the Mid-Century Modern phase. Many of the MCM objects were variations spin offs of Bauhaus Designs and styling.Here is the link to the WorthPoint.com page:
https://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=xanti+schawinsky&category=So hope this helps. Good Luck.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Done this also and nope. This have a long paragraph of countries that are excluded but all of the preferences mention here have been checked and double checked. The overide the GSB program is NOT checked. Opened each region continent sections and no countries are checked, except now one “Moldavia”, 🙂 LOL, which I tried as suggested above, nope and double nope. I have a list of 3 or 4 things I wish to discuss with an Ebay calla and this topic is still on the list. Just waiting until I have the time to sit and go through all of it with a rep.
Yes HabNab, it was the Worthpoint ones I was seeing.
Go to this link also and one can see several jackets. The highes being about $1,100 the next $900 on down to about $450. The $1,100 one says it was custom made for Burt Reynolds. Bohlin made saddles for the stars in Hollywood, so I guess some clothing also.
Here is the link:
https://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=bohlin+jacket&category=
Yeah there.. Just now saw your post. As I stated several months ago when you posted this that I have had this issue also for a very long time. Nobody really understood at Ebay either and I was hoping at some point someone would post a work around or a fix. I have had no Foreign Sales for the whole time, Due to I think, that every country on the planet is in my “Excluded List”, even though in my preferences as Advent.E says, I don’t have any exclsuions checked off.
So, now I will try your work around and go and select just one country to “exclude” and see if all of my listings will reset and all of the exclusions will go away.
Since we only use the GSP, the only exclusions should be the ones that Ebay’s GSP will not ship to.
Will let you know if it works for me.
Mike at MDC Galleries
Yeah.. way to go! I didn’t get the reference even though seen this movie many times. Even have a sealed copy of it and had it listed for awhile. Oh well. LOL!
Good job Jay.
Mike
Yeah.. try writing code – formulas using DOS 1 on a amber screen with only a flashing cursor showing.
How is this DOS! b Run.. <break>, “2”+”2″=<4> break line, line cell ref. “C3″, return.Hows that to just typing in $C$3
Or =AVG(C1:C230) which will average all of the numbers found in the column C from cell 1 down through cell 230). Way easier now. LOL. Plus at 69-1/2” years old, I am way too old for all this stuff now. LOL 🙂
Well having a Masters Degree in Fine art and Majors in Contemporary Modern Art and Silkscreen Fine Art Printmaking, you pose a completely understandable reference.
All of my colleagues have said that I am the enigma in that I am both left and right brained. I can on one hand, create a large, free flowing, totaly abstract piece of art stemming from nothing more than a blank canvass starting point and at the same time was a professional operations VP and worked with doing motion and time studies on the mfg. floor and in and designed and formulated spread sheets my whole life. All the way back to VisiCal and Lotus 123. How is that for an old reference. 🙂 🙂 LOL
Yes, just as T-Satt says for sure.
If you think like an Operations Manager or Financial Officer of your company, these both are great tools to automate many process and for data analysis.
If you operate like many of our friends who operate antique booths, where all they know about their business is that their receivables is in their left pocket and their payables are in their right pocket and if at the end of the month they are happy to have money left in either pocket then these programs may not be for you.
And with all due respect to your background and experience level, both programs do require somewhat of a learning curve and to what degree will depend on how much you already know about operations, standard operating procedures [SOPs], Financials, [P&L, COGS, COA] and of course some knowledge about using and navigating a relational database. Very doable, but the more you know about these things the quicker [shorter] the learning curve.
But do check out the videos on both company’s web sites. Reveiwing these will be the key to answering your q1uestion as to what you should expect to gain from using either of these programs.
Good luck… mike
I used SixBit for about a year. Been using WonderLister for 3 or 4 years. Several members here on SL use either WonderLister or SixBit. Both have a trial period for you to get the feel.
Yes there has been a ton of discussion on both software programs. As Advent.E says, search on both app names and you will find a lot of threads. been discussed several times along with a long list of benefits several members have posted.
I also suggest you go to both web sites and view their tutorials. They last 2 to 3 minutes each and cover about a dozen topics on how they are of help.
Good luck…
Mike at MDC Galleries in AtlantaHe was the Saddle maker to the stars. He also did a few custom clothing items. What article of clothing is it. I found a jacket and a cowboy hat both for $500 to $600 dollars.
Do you have a shirt, vest, chaps, pants, cuff protectors, spurs, ?? Without knowing what article you have it makes the search fairly broad. By using the article name in the search it will narrow it down and maybe I can find a few more hits.Mike at MDCG
RT-WV: That may be an option but he wasn’t happy when we first notified him that we couldn’t ship his purchase. We apologized in an email to him and informed him we would keep looking but we were just unsure if the item was still in our inventory someplace or that it got donated earlier and we forgot to kill the listing. We offered at that time to refund him 100%.
His only reply was .. “Keep Looking”. We went ahead and refunded the next or so. Susan said she was fairly confident we donated it with the pile that went to GoodWill but not positive. I looked again several rows above and below and didn’t see it. So I think once we found out it was not a real hood ornament from a Packard automobile but a generic winged lady repro and damaged besides, we just pulled the inventory tag and threw it into the donation pile.
That has been well over a month ago and what we think happened is Ebay sent one of those emails that they send to customers who have not left feedback after a month goes by, he got it and then decided to give us the burn.
At this point unsure how he would react and we can’t say anything else. we have apologized twice, gave him his money back and the listing is gone. What more could we say??
