{"id":114218,"date":"2025-02-27T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/no-thanks\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:36:12","slug":"no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=114218","title":{"rendered":"No Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My sister has been going through her attic, trying to clear it out for the inevitable day when it\u2019s going to be time to move out of the home she\u2019s lived in for 40 years.\u00a0 She recently sent me this photo:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_0\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reaganupshawfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nothanks_featured.jpg\" alt=\"Ida O\u2019Keeffe, \u201cFlowers (Gardenias in a Pitcher)\u201d 1932&lt;br \/&gt;\nOil on canvas, 8 x 7 inches&lt;br \/&gt;\nPhoto courtesy Christie\u2019s New York&lt;br \/&gt;\n\" title=\"nothanks_featured\" class=\"wp-image-2350\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_1\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_1  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She thinks it\u2019s our great-aunt\u2019s, inherited by our mother.\u00a0 Before my sister sends this and other things to the thrift shop, she\u2019s asking around the family to see if anyone wants them.\u00a0 So far, there have been few takers among our children for anything offered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eight years ago, Richard Eisenberg wrote a much-discussed article for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forbes Magazine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with a title that told the sad truth: \u201cSorry \u2013 Nobody Wants Your Parents\u2019 Stuff.\u201d\u00a0 Hummel figurines, \u201climited-edition\u201d multiples, those commemorative medallions that were being marketed as real investments in the 1950s \u2013 as with my great-aunt\u2019s bowl, you often can\u2019t even give them away to Generation X.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganupshawfineart.com\/taking-a-haircut-or-how-bout-them-apples\/\">The same is true with 19th century art as well<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The market for major works by members of the Hudson River School is still strong, but most such works passed into public collections long ago, and minor works, however attractive, by lesser-known members of the school can\u2019t command anything like they once did.\u00a0 I recently finished an appraisal for a painting by a member of the group that had been purchased 25 years ago for almost $100,000.\u00a0 I appraised it for less than a third of that.\u00a0 Sorry, but that\u2019s the current market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Things go in and out of fashion.\u00a0 Buy what you like, and let it give you pleasure. If you hit the top of the market when it\u2019s time to sell, that\u2019s great, but don\u2019t count on it. \u00a0 If you want advice about a particular area, give me a call.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be happy to talk, although please remember that I don\u2019t have a crystal ball, either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the way, I\u2019m sure that some of my readers are much better-versed in late-19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-early-20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century ceramics than I am.\u00a0 If one of you recognizes the item in the photo as an extremely rare bowl, please don\u2019t write to me, saying, \u201cYou putz!\u00a0 That was a Krumpfenkaddidlesteiner decorative bowl!\u00a0 The last one at auction brought $1,000,000!\u201d\u00a0 Let me sleep at night while the lucky thrift store shopper revels in his good fortune.\u00a0 In cases like this, ignorance is bliss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganupshawfineart.com\/no-thanks\/\">No Thanks<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganupshawfineart.com\">Reagan Upshaw Fine Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister has been going through her attic, trying to clear it out for the inevitable day when it\u2019s going to be time to move out of the home she\u2019s lived in for 40 years.\u00a0 She recently sent me this photo: She thinks it\u2019s our great-aunt\u2019s, inherited by our mother.\u00a0 Before my sister sends this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-114218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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