[Leica] Eggleston

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Yes. Only modern Indian ones - usually from those who were just starting
out - the best time to pick up paintings. I have rarely spent over US$200
for a canvas - and some of them can be sold for over US$30,000 today. It
has, however, taken 20 years to appreciate to this level, so it is critical
to buy only those you can live with on your walls for 20 years!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Leowesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you collect Indian painters?
>
> Leo Wesson
> www.leowesson.com
>
> On Apr 7, 2012, at 11:02, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > That is what I do - if I like it, and I think it is a reasonable price (a
> > subjective judgement, to be sure), I buy it. It is purchased for
> enjoyment,
> > not for investment, but over a long period (15 years and above) the
> > appreciation can be considerable. Of all my investments, the best returns
> > has been generated by my art collection (as in painting) - but most of my
> > canvases were bought 10+ years ago for peanuts, mostly direct from the
> > artist (why pay gallery commissions of 40%?). I do not think photographs
> > can ever generate the same returns - paintings are, after all, by their
> > very nature, extremely limited editions of one!!!
> >
> > I have been buying photographs the last few years, though, in preference
> to
> > other forms of art.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:12 PM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Did you read this?
> >>
> >>
> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/03/limited-editions.html
> >>
> >> There are no rules.  Lithographers used to change a small element of
> their
> >> image and reprint it and sell it as a new edition.  Some photogs make an
> >> edition of a certain size and then change the size and make a new
> edition.
> >> Sounds like that is what Eggleston did.  Probably needs money.  Unless a
> >> negative is destroyed, it can be printed.  Well that's not true.  A
> print
> >> could be scanned and that reprinted.....
> >>
> >> Like all art, the value is determined by what you want to pay and if you
> >> like it and want to buy it.  I have lots of didn't buy a print regrets.
> >> Minor White Jupiter
> >> Portfolio<
> >> http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=1880755
> >>> for
> >> $!000.  Strand's Mexican
> >> Portfolio<
> >>
> http://www.franklinbooks.com/servlet/the-1756/Paul-Strand-cln--The-Mexican/Detail
> >>> for
> >> $1500.  Weston
> >> print for $300<
> >>
> http://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/ew-tina-on-the-azotea-circa-19242.jpg?w=655
> >>> .
> >> Ansel print $75 (printed by John Sexton, initialed, not signed) .  HCB
> >> print $1500, yes that print, the puddle jumping guy.
> >> Willy Ronis for $1000.  That would be my non existent collection.
> >>
> >> If you like it, buy it..
> >>
> >>
> >> Leo Wesson
> >> Photographer/Videographer
> >> 817.733.9157
> >> www.leowesson.com
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <
> jayanand at gmail.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Trying to have your cake and eat it too? No ethics in art anymore? Is
> it
> >>> dangerous to purchase "Limited Editions"?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/04/the-plot-thickens.html
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Jayanand
> >>>
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