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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    KT53 said:
    Dovefromabove said:


    And LLB’s flamingos … is that the only ‘painting’ he’s ever done?  He’s inordinately proud of it … it’s been re-hashed and used sooooo many times in the past on Changing Rooms … it’ll soon be turning up on Antiques Roadshow 😂 
    Surely LLB will be on the Antiques Roadshow before long.  As one of the items being valued (worth nowt luv) rather than one of the experts.

    Don't ... he's considerably younger than I am ... I'll leave you to judge which of us has worn the better tho' 🕊

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    More like The Repair Shop or The Bidding Room.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    On the topic of paintings’ value, has the worth of works by Rolf Harris plummeted?
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    A local centre for children with disabilities had a painting by RH ... he did it years ago on a visit there, and they had regarded it as a nest egg  that they would call upon to fund their planned improvements ........... but of course there's not a hope in hell of selling it.  Not sure what's happened to it now. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Shame they can't be sold to benefit children.  But who'd want them?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    It's a shame the art can't be seen as separate from the artist... if it was a good painting and you liked it, surely it would be ok to keep it?  But I take the point about the monetary value having plummeted. 
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I wouldn't be able to separate the two but maybe if it was a Caravaggio.....
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    B3 said:
    I wouldn't be able to separate the two but maybe if it was a Caravaggio.....
    Yeah, he merely murdered someone....
  • CostumedVoleCostumedVole Posts: 257
    Woodgreen said:
    B3 said:
    I wouldn't be able to separate the two but maybe if it was a Caravaggio.....
    Yeah, he merely murdered someone....
    And that's only the one we know about...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    And folk seem to forget that Wagner was a staunch anti semite.

    Devon.
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