BS: awesome flea market find

Subject: BS: awesome flea market find
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 09:51 PM

found this great oil on canvas original in a flea market over the weekend. 20 bucks   Signed F. Wollinger great painting I think

wollinger

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 09:57 PM

Factory art... But not bad, Ol'ster.... Good find...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 10:22 PM

That what I thought also Bobster, but there is a gallery tag on the back and he is listed in artfind. Not valuable 400 bucks but listed

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Amos
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 11:01 PM

Lucky Dan!! Always in the middle!

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: olddude
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 11:59 PM

I am going to post it on the mudcat auction. All proceeds to Max

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: olddude
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 12:14 AM

Hey Bobster
   oil on canvas and is above my fireplace
do you like surrealism?

Not a print or silkscreen but the real deal, I assure you.

surrealism

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: olddude
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 12:38 AM

It was painted by a great Russian artist Isvan. He graduated from the fine arts academy back in the cold war era. One of my NFL coach buddies paid a bunch for one of his works and I got to know the artist pretty well. I just loved his artwork. I had this about 10 years now, it arrived at my door with a note "a small gift for my friend Dan .. Isvan painted it for me and gave it to me as a gift"

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 04:01 AM

Nice picture OD.....echos of Dali.

My son discovered a canvas by a Scottish artist called George Pirie,
who moved to America and did a lot of work painting the cowboys and their horses around the turn of the century.
He moved back to scotland, and died around 1940

Anyway, my son bought the canvas for about $15 had it cleaned and valued at Bonhams for $7000 2 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Stu
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 04:20 AM

Really nice picture Old Dude.

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 08:25 AM

Bought a box of 21 DVD music video concerts (mostly artists I like) for $5 on the week-end. Not awesome - but, A great find for me.

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 08:44 AM

Yup, that one falls into Bobert's "fine art" category which ain't all that easy to get into... I am an art snob... I admit it... Ya' see, my mom dragged me thru every gallery in Washington, D.C. going back to when I was 3 years old and I kinda got addicted and have been a gallery-rat ever since... Throw in my B.A. in "painting and printmaking", yeah, it takes alot to impress me...

I like the one over the mantle... Like to see a better pic of it sometime if you could pull that off...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 09:38 AM

I like the oil painting, Olddude. It has such an atmosphere of peacefulness.   I'd like to be there.

You were smart to snap it up, and good to put it in the auction.

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 02:44 PM

I second Bobert's request.

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: olddude
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 03:37 PM

Bob
here is a little better photo, I got camera flash in it and it is hung high so I had to raise my hands over my head :-)

Isvan

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 03:47 PM

When I get some time I will take a photo of my 17th century dutch interior painting. It was done about 1640 the experts tell me anyway. That one is going out to my youngest who loves the thing

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: olddude
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 04:08 PM

ok here is the surrealism I took it down for the pics
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Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 04:15 PM

Hmmmm??? Could you zoom in on about a i inch by 1 inch portion that has some detail???

It doesn't look to be oil... It looks more like acrylic but then again, I'm not seeing it as you are... It looks like 60s or 70s... Who painted it??? is it dated or just signed... Can you zoom in on the signature???..

Definitely a Dali-ite...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 04:32 PM

Did your artist friend have a large pointed moustache Old dude?

The picture is either a Dali copy, or the artist was strongly influenced by Salvador Dali.
The tones, the melting clock faces, drape of the cloth,desert landscape plus the heavy eroticism all point to 1930's Dali.

I have often visited Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum to see Dali's painting of the Crucifiction of St John.....an extremely powerful work.

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 09:29 PM

I found and bought an 1884 H&R fliptop the other day. NRA VG to Excellent. The price and condition made it an excellent buy -- and my brother was in my dreams, nagging me about it.

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 10:11 PM

I found an unusual item a while back. An antique ladies cane fashioned from a narwhal tusk.
They were made in the 18th-19th C., by the Inuit, but now are illegal in the U.S.

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 10:13 PM

Now all ya' gotta do is find a 200 year old woman who needs it, Q...

Jus' funnin'...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: olddude
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 11:27 PM

The artist was istvan sandorfi oil on canvas
sadly he passed in 2007

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 02:03 PM

My most valuable garage sale find was a 30-gallon plastic lidded bin full to the top with great classical CDs. The stuff came from church members and all of these top-shelf recordings (DGG, Angel, Telarc, etc.) added up to 300+ discs from an estate of someone who must have been an academic in music. I was poking around the top of the box, debating if I wanted to dig through it - there were excellent discs on top. I made the decision to jump when the woman who was running the sale approached and said "They're ALL classical, I'll never sell them. Give me $20 for the bin and they're yours." I've enjoyed them, none of them went to eBay (which my family predicted when they saw them). I could never afford thousands of dollars for these high-end issued discs, so I kept them to enjoy!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: gnu
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 02:49 PM

Dan... that could make one think for days about the meaning of the possible "heavy eroticism" noted by ake. I went in a different direction as the genitals puzzle me. The female form coming to the fore over time and then the torso and "lower parts" obviously torn asunder with male genitals and bones, a rib, isolated in time and space whilst a dog ravages... a dog of war?... the embodiment of the war between the sexes over time with time being the central focus? eternal strife between the sexes???

I gotta research this. Thanks, Dan!

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 03:48 PM

You nailed it GNU

Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find
From: GUEST,nobody in particular
Date: 31 Aug 12 - 03:52 PM

I have a similar story, but it didn't happen to me, but rather a female folk singer, who told me the story, and showed me the find.

She went to a garage sale, to buy a case for her acoustic 'folk' guitar. The sale was being held by an elderly widow, whose husband had passed over twenty-five years prior, and was cleaning out her attic, and garage from myriads of memorabilia, of her younger years, and of he deceased husband, and lo an behold, there was an old, cheap guitar case. It was basically a cardboard case with simulated 'leather' covering. It wasn't really what she was looking for, because it was somewhat of an inexpensive case for an inexpensive guitar, but for a price of $7.00 USD, she thought that it would get her by, until she could afford a 'real' case. She loaded it in her car, drove home, and got her guitar to see if it would fit. She opened it, to see, and found a 1906 000-17 Martin in absolutely flawless condition!
Not a scratch on it. It was darker in colour, than what we are used to, but it sounded great! Now, she's looking for TWO cases!!