Last night George and I were watching ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. One gentleman brought a painting up to the tables. The appraiser who got it was truly passionate in his enthusiasm.
“It is a very early https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldessari,”
he told the man…who looked vaguely familiar.
What’s so funny to me it was a not too good piece, as he had burned them
all. How he missed this one, I don’t
know. It was in a gallery as a rental piece
of $3.00 dollars a month. Now it is
worth over $90,000 dollars.
I phoned Bobbie. She and I took life drawing with him at Southwestern college. My ex-husband was one of the helpers who hauled his all work out into the backcountry and helped burn it. Burning his old pieces was the impetus that led him to the foundation of the conceptual art movement. Now days he is judged equal with some of the most notable names of the age. Both Bobbie and I find this really funny.
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- <A HREF=http://geeeee-zer.blogspot.com/>Himself:</A> In space the driving me to my renal docs appointment.
- Myself: Reading, shower, this, doctor, dinner, read.
- Reading: Bujold.
- Watching: KPBS: Antiques Roadshow, San Diego, 2018.
- Photo: Bobbie in DC with a large art piece behind her.
- Weather: Sun but threatening monsoonal rain.
- Gratitude’s: Being clean.
Don't understand why he would have burned all his work but it sure made that one that survived valuable.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you studied with Baldessari, that's amazing!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting man Baldessari was. He could use bits of other art, but not his own!
ReplyDeleteas an art major it's probably ironic that I know nothing about art history. I took one art history class, the professor pontificating about what artists dead for hundreds of year meant when they painted this or that. I thought it was pretty presumptuous. and so I have no idea who Baldessari is. but I do know I don't care for most conceptual art. I had been recommended by a director at Corning as a pate de verre artist to a guy that was curating a show of glass artists in Texas who wanted every type of glass art technique represented but he ultimately rejected every piece I had on hand as not conceptual enough. and so neither I nor the pate de verre technique was represented in his show.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been fascinating to know that man, Mage.
ReplyDeleteand the piece on the show wasn't really that good for $90,000
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