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28 Aug 12 - 09:51 PM (#3396761) Subject: BS: awesome flea market find From: GUEST,olddude found this great oil on canvas original in a flea market over the weekend. 20 bucks Signed F. Wollinger great painting I think wollinger |
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28 Aug 12 - 09:57 PM (#3396763) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Bobert Factory art... But not bad, Ol'ster.... Good find... B~ |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:22 PM (#3396770) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: GUEST,olddude 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 |
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28 Aug 12 - 11:01 PM (#3396786) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Amos Lucky Dan!! Always in the middle! |
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28 Aug 12 - 11:59 PM (#3396799) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: olddude I am going to post it on the mudcat auction. All proceeds to Max |
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29 Aug 12 - 12:14 AM (#3396802) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: olddude 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 |
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29 Aug 12 - 12:38 AM (#3396812) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: olddude 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" |
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29 Aug 12 - 04:01 AM (#3396850) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: akenaton 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. |
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29 Aug 12 - 04:20 AM (#3396857) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Stu Really nice picture Old Dude. |
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29 Aug 12 - 08:25 AM (#3396946) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Ed T 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. |
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29 Aug 12 - 08:44 AM (#3396955) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Bobert 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~ |
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29 Aug 12 - 09:38 AM (#3396975) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: GUEST,leeneia 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. |
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29 Aug 12 - 02:44 PM (#3397134) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: gnu I second Bobert's request. |
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29 Aug 12 - 03:37 PM (#3397166) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: olddude 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 |
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29 Aug 12 - 03:47 PM (#3397176) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: GUEST,olddude 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 |
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29 Aug 12 - 04:08 PM (#3397187) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: olddude ok here is the surrealism I took it down for the pics 1 2 3 4 |
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29 Aug 12 - 04:15 PM (#3397189) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Bobert 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~ |
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29 Aug 12 - 04:32 PM (#3397198) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: akenaton 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. |
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29 Aug 12 - 09:29 PM (#3397306) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Rapparee 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. |
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29 Aug 12 - 10:11 PM (#3397314) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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29 Aug 12 - 10:13 PM (#3397317) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Bobert Now all ya' gotta do is find a 200 year old woman who needs it, Q... Jus' funnin'... B;~) |
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29 Aug 12 - 11:27 PM (#3397336) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: olddude The artist was istvan sandorfi oil on canvas sadly he passed in 2007 |
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30 Aug 12 - 02:03 PM (#3397674) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: Stilly River Sage 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 |
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30 Aug 12 - 02:49 PM (#3397707) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: gnu 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! |
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30 Aug 12 - 03:48 PM (#3397746) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: GUEST,olddude You nailed it GNU |
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31 Aug 12 - 03:52 PM (#3398246) Subject: RE: BS: awesome flea market find From: GUEST,nobody in particular 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!! |