{"id":100576,"date":"2025-02-21T02:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/batman-vs-art-star-reagan-upshaw-fine-art\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T02:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:03:51","slug":"batman-vs-art-star-reagan-upshaw-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=100576","title":{"rendered":"Batman vs. Art Star &#8211; Reagan Upshaw Fine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Summer normally brings family parties on the deck for Roberta and me, and at a recent such get-together I was talking with my nephew Greg, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganupshawfineart.com\/eight-dollar-baseball-card\">whose boyhood enthusiasm for collecting baseball cards I have written<\/a>. Greg, now middle-aged, long ago put his baseball cards aside and now collects illustrations and other collectibles from popular culture.\u00a0 He has a particular fondness for Batman.<\/p>\n<p>Greg had read my blog about baseball card collecting in 2017, and he told me that the advice on collecting that I tendered then still guides his collecting.\u00a0 \u201cGuys at work know that I collect this stuff, and they\u2019re always asking me, \u2018Greg, I have a chance to buy a Superman action figure for $25.00. What do you think?\u00a0 Will it go up?\u00a0 Is it a good buy?\u2019\u00a0 I always tell them that nothing is guaranteed to go up.\u00a0 If they like something and want to live with it, they should buy it, but forget about trying to buy low and make a killing later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on, \u201cI have some very nice things that I enjoy living with.\u00a0 I paid top dollar for them, to get the best. I never intend to sell them, so it doesn\u2019t matter what happens to the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Top dollar in Greg\u2019s case is very much below top dollar for works by important contemporary artists, but collecting principles should remain the same.\u00a0 Alas, too many people \u2013 I won\u2019t call them \u201ccollectors\u201d; they\u2019re the artworld equivalent of day traders \u2013 haven\u2019t read my blog.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/18\/arts\/design\/young-artists-auctions-collectors.html\">A recent front-page article in <em>The New York Times<\/em> by Zachary Small and Julia Halperin<\/a>\u00a0detailed the woes of some artists in their 20\u2019s who had the misfortune to become very hot. Why was that a misfortune? Because speculators, dealers, and art advisors began buying their works like crazy. The artists responded by pumping out a lot of art. Then their buyers sold, taking a quick profit, and the bubble burst.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Hit a paywall on the NYT article? <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240825011358\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/18\/arts\/design\/young-artists-auctions-collectors.html\">Read an unrestricted version here<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The market for works by artists of color has been extremely hot in recent years, and three of the four artists profiled in the <em>Times<\/em> article were artists of color.\u00a0 The other was a woman, also a hot market these days.\u00a0 Amani Lewis\u2019s story was typical.\u00a0 Five years ago, they (the artist\u2019s pronoun) were a well-regarded young artist whose works sold in the low five figures.\u00a0 Then the fickle finger of fate tapped Lewis as a soon-to-be star, and their works started bringing six figures.\u00a0 The culmination of their rise at auction came in November of 2021, when <em>Into the Valley, The Boy Walks (Psalms 23:4)<\/em> sold at Phillips in New York for $107,100 including premium.\u00a0 They were, to use an old expression, hotter than a two-dollar pistol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer normally brings family parties on the deck for Roberta and me, and at a recent such get-together I was talking with my nephew Greg, about whose boyhood enthusiasm for collecting baseball cards I have written. 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