We in the Societé are full of questions. One is why would anyone pay more than $3.50 for any painted picture whatsoever, painted whenever, by whoever.
Sadly, I have no ready answer other than "more money than brains." People and museums with lots of money to spend on remarkably stupidly useless things seem to think otherwise.
You've all seen headlines like "valuable Renoir stolen" and such. Valuable to whom? Certainly not curmudgeons. Certainly not the average Joe who is busy trying to make ends meet for his family. Renoirs are the furthest thing from their minds, and if it had been properly priced at $3.50, the incentive to steal them would disappear. The fancy-dancy art world has done this to themselves.
The best bit is paintings become even more valuable when the artist dies. Do you not miss motive here?
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