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A fake copy of a classical painting looking close enough to the real one that only experts can say difference is going to cost in the high six digits at least.

A fake copy of a classical painting looking close enough to the real one that only experts can say difference is going to cost in the high six digits at least. If I had enough money the difference between couple of million and 50 is not all that significant I would sure pay , same as paying for apple watch or air pods or any other premium brand quality is assured and resale value is good

bhupy 6y ago
Do you have a source for that? I’m no art connoisseur, but just sampling a few famous works: Starry Night, original $80 million (https://medium.com/@comma.php/more-info-of-the-starry-night-1889-by-vincent-van-gogh-ff1a2a5985d4 https://medium.com/@comma.php/more-info-of-the-starry-night-...). Replica $500 (https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Vincent-Van-Gogh/Starry-Night.html https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Vincent-Van-Gogh/Starry-Nigh...) Mona Lisa, original $850 million (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintin...), replica $250 (https://www.brushwiz.com/catalog/leonardo-da-vinci-mona-lisa-oil-painting-reproduction-104/ https://www.brushwiz.com/catalog/leonardo-da-vinci-mona-lisa...)
- manquer 6y ago
  I am no expert either, the caveat was the replica has to be close enough to not look different. The period materials and paint alone is going to be costlier $500, the hundreds of hours if not thousands (easily in $100s/hour) it is going take an expert skilled artist in recreating a master is not cheap either. While both the links you gave claim to be hand painted, I am pretty skeptical it is possible to have an skilled artist repaint and ship in 14-21 days at a size you can choose for just $250!.
rawtxapp 6y ago
> If I had enough money the difference between couple of million and 50 is not all that significant I would sure pay By many measures, if you had 100M$, you'd be somewhere in the top 0.001%, a million dollar would represent 1% of your net worth, but 50M$ would be 50% of your net worth, so I'm not sure where you came to the conclusion that that's not significant. > resale value is good Because it's the original.
- arcticbull 6y ago
  Yes, to your point, resale values on lPods are dreadful.

bhupy 6y ago

Do you have a source for that? I’m no art connoisseur, but just sampling a few famous works: Starry Night, original $80 million (https://medium.com/@comma.php/more-info-of-the-starry-night-1889-by-vincent-van-gogh-ff1a2a5985d4 https://medium.com/@comma.php/more-info-of-the-starry-night-...). Replica $500 (https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Vincent-Van-Gogh/Starry-Night.html https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Vincent-Van-Gogh/Starry-Nigh...) Mona Lisa, original $850 million (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintin...), replica $250 (https://www.brushwiz.com/catalog/leonardo-da-vinci-mona-lisa-oil-painting-reproduction-104/ https://www.brushwiz.com/catalog/leonardo-da-vinci-mona-lisa...)

manquer 6y ago
I am no expert either, the caveat was the replica has to be close enough to not look different. The period materials and paint alone is going to be costlier $500, the hundreds of hours if not thousands (easily in $100s/hour) it is going take an expert skilled artist in recreating a master is not cheap either. While both the links you gave claim to be hand painted, I am pretty skeptical it is possible to have an skilled artist repaint and ship in 14-21 days at a size you can choose for just $250!.

rawtxapp 6y ago

> If I had enough money the difference between couple of million and 50 is not all that significant I would sure pay By many measures, if you had 100M$, you'd be somewhere in the top 0.001%, a million dollar would represent 1% of your net worth, but 50M$ would be 50% of your net worth, so I'm not sure where you came to the conclusion that that's not significant. > resale value is good Because it's the original.

arcticbull 6y ago
Yes, to your point, resale values on lPods are dreadful.