Question for you art people!
Does Erté sell at all? There is a large, maybe 4' square, painting in the family and I'm wondering if it's worth trying to sell. I don't have a photo of it yet and I wouldn't even be the one selling it but I know slightly more about such things than does the one who will get it. But not much more.
I have seen it but it was years ago. I remember it being very pale and pastelly. And not very interesting. I just did an image search for stuff in that same vein by the artist and there wasn't much. The more vividly colored contrasty stuff is so much more interesting in my opinion.
Aunt Mark, it came out of your area. Probably would have popped up at your favorite resale shop if it hadn't been willed to my kids' grandfather.
Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day!
Spanky,
Hopefully Mark or SDR or one of the others can help you with an evaluation, because I am completely clueless on what the Erte might bring. But if you need incorrect info on Pollock, or a high estimate for set of Eames wire chairs, I'm the guy to ask!
Good luck and us know what happens!
Good Morning All!
My gosh, spanky...that is by far the nicest squrl Valentine greeting that I've ever set my big brown eyeballs on. I have copied it, and plan to cherish it for many moons. I had an Erte once...a gift from some former flame (1983). I'll ask a friend who sells art about their marketability.
Fondly,
Your Aunt Mark
ps. Would you happen to have a snappy of the kids Grandfather?
pss Hi Eameshead.
(edited to add a snappy of the Erte that I was gifted by that truck driver back in the '80's)
I sure do.
I would have sworn that it was a fish eye lens issue, but you certainly would be aware of it if it were. That's amazing.
But I originally liked it best …. IN SPITE of the bend illusion. I'm not sure I enjoy the bend… I might be too distracted by it. Now that I know it's not a lens thing… but only because I like the complexity so much and just want to enjoy that aspect.
But still, amazingly weird that it happens.
EDIT Now I'm wondering what would happen if this pattern were allowed to repeat itself several times on a larger scale… Would the bend illusion still happen if it were not happening along the edge of the rectangle?
I don't know what it is. The images are straight scans -- complete with random horizontal hairlines and a distortion that slopes the top border down to the left -- it gets progressively worse as I copy copies. But the lines are straight; you can put a straight-edge right on your screen to check -- I did !
I like it when the total is (this much) more than the sum of its parts . . .!
. . . and in honor of last week's momentous galactic development, I'm calling it "When Black Holes Collide".
I'm guessing the optical illusion is the result of the diagonals that converge at roughly the center of the sheet. If multiple versions of this "focal point" were to appear on a larger image, I think each one would develop its own "bulls-eye." Maybe I'll find out one of these days . . .
You mentioned that some of the lines were consistently dropped out by the printer?
I know that they are still straight and consistent "non lines", but maybe the bend illusion is partly helped along by that, as it confuses the nervous system's usual assumptions about edges lining up…
Just a thought.
Heh. Yes -- me too. You've successfully controlled what I haven't -- which is why I don't post full-body images ! That's me down there, in 1959 . . . scary, even then.
It's nice to know that the effects that Victor Vasarely created can be made to appear spontaneously. No dropped lines in my scans, but little horizontal ones added randomly. You can find them in some of the images I've posted recently.
http://modernprints.co.uk/prints/victor-vasarely/signed
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