Art price and value
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Life of Pi
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” Martel, Yann. “Life of Pi.”
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Bargain Books
Last week I visited the bookstore and I found a bargain almost impossible to refuse: a beautiful lobster cookbook: over 100 beautifully illustrated pages with all kinds of recipes about lobster: lobster lasagna, lobster clam chowder, lobster thermidor … exquisite photographs and just for CDN $ 2.00 (about USD$ 2.00). We had it in my…
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Graceland
There is a girl in New York City Who calls herself the human trampoline And sometimes when I’m falling, flying Or tumbling in turmoil I say WHOA [not oh], so this is what she means She means we’re bouncing into Graceland And I see losing love Is like a window in your heart Everybody sees…
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What is art for?
How a lithograph can be worth 100 times more just because it is signed? What was the main function of that work of art? Is it for the joy of the senses? Is the emotion that makes us feel? Decorating a wall? No, because then it would not matter if it was signed. Who cares…
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Price Market
It’s funny, we were trying to update the value of a Gaby’s jade piece: a small Chinese sculpture of a bird of about 10 “(25cm) high. We think that one way to get an idea of the price was looking at some websites. We look for similar pieces on eBay and Christie’s among other places,…
Carlos Fentanes 