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Subject:
Did I Overpay for a Chagall Lithograph?
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Visual Arts Asked by: chasro-ga List Price: $7.50 |
Posted:
09 Aug 2004 10:55 PDT
Expires: 08 Sep 2004 10:55 PDT Question ID: 385455 |
I purchased Marc Chagall Lithograph, "Bezaleel and His Two Golden Cherubim", which is from his Exodus suite. The picture is in a nice frame, is numbered, and has a facsimile signature of Chagall. The certificate lists a printing date of 1993, says that only 500 were produced, and that the plates were destroyed. I purchased the lithograph at an auction for $150. Did I over/underpay and what is the lithograph really worth? Don't be afraid to be blunt, because I'd rather have a straightforward answer than one that's sugarcoated. |
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Re: Did I Overpay for a Chagall Lithograph?
From: probonopublico-ga on 09 Aug 2004 12:21 PDT |
If you like it, enjoy it! If you look hard enough, you can usually finds things cheaper some place else. Auctions are not necessarily the cheapest places on earth. I am continually surprised at the distortion that occurs at auctions: some stuff fetches much higher than expected; other much lower. Nevertheless, it's great fun. |
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Re: Did I Overpay for a Chagall Lithograph?
From: geof-ga on 09 Aug 2004 16:20 PDT |
An original edition (1966), signed lithograph from the Exodus suite would probably sell for at least $10,000. The market in late reprints of such artists as Chagall, Miro, Dali and Picasso is something of a jungle, and it is hard to establish any clear objective value for these prints. Given that your print is nicely framed - and assuming that framing in the US is as expensive as here in the UK - I would say the price you paid was fair, and you may have even got something of a bargain. But you should not expect to be able to resell it for too much more than you paid. |
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Re: Did I Overpay for a Chagall Lithograph?
From: 4keith-ga on 10 Aug 2004 14:40 PDT |
Have it appraised locally to see what information you can get from that. |
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