ARTY FACTS OF INTEREST

Did you know that. . .

Oil paintings generally cost less to frame than equally sized prints

Lighting on a painting needs to be dimmer at night and brighter during the day

Fluorescent lighting causes more fading of artwork than incandescent lighting

Most artists are left handed

Art prices are set just like other prices--by supply and demand

Added lighting almost always enhances any painting, regardless of style or colour

Art has surpassed the stock market in appreciation over the past twenty years

Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, while admired by millions (possibly billions) since his death, only sold one painting during his lifetime.

Artist Edgar Degas was so fascinated with ballet dancers that he became obsessed with representing them in his art. It is estimated Degas made approximately 1500 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings of dancers.

In 1962 Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was valued at $100 million. Who knows what it would be worth today?

In the mid-1950s through to the early 1960's an art movement called Pop Art celebrated images from popular culture, advertising and the mass media. Artists such as Warhol and Lichtenstein took their subjects from popular American culture. Warhol's '100 Cans of Campbell's Soup' and his repeated images of Marilyn Monroe are some of the most well known artworks to emerge from this movement.

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 PAINTINGS FOR SALE

PIERNEEF & ERROL BOYLEY - We presently have 2 for sale at bargain prices - please contact us, if you would like us to email you the pics

Specialising in South African Investment Art and Old Masters

We have Paintings & Bronzes to suit all Tastes and Pockets.

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