Art With Heart (Auction 06)
Casey House's big art auction, Art With Heart, is coming November 1st.
Went last year -- the art's okay (in that most of it falls well outside the realm of what I like, and collect), but the event is fabulous, held in The Carlu.
Tickets ain't cheap (but not much more, even less, than a meal with wine at a good restaurant) but it's charity and I'll go again this year.
Now there's no art I own that I'd sell, BUT it hurts still that five or six years ago I passed up an opportunity to purchase a Lukacs silkscreen for about $2000 (memories of the price are just above or below that amount among a few people) and one of those silkscreens is in this year's Art With Heart catalogue with a price estimate (e.g. what it would cost at the gallery) for 10 THOUSAND dollars. A couple of years ago I discovered a couple of the silscreens were still available for $7,000, gave it some thought, but as that's about 4 times what my car's worth again passed it. [Sounds alot like the story of St. Michael, the painting, I passed up year ago too, which went up in price 5 times when next it was there in front of me to buy! -- well, at least it proves I've got an eye for good art, perhaps :) ] I predict the Lukacs goes for MUCH more than the estimated price, btw.
My art buying has nothing to do with art as an investment (better off heading to Vegas) but still the ones that got away frustrate a little. And given my retirement savings strategies of "sugar daddy" or lottery win" are unlikely to prove successful....
Anyway, go to artwithheart.ca, see what's up and consider buying a ticket in support of Casey House -- this particular art auction really does provide a highly interesting night of watching-people entertainment, not to mention champagne and unbelievably high-brow "snacks."
Oh, and if you're out and about take in the art show at Craig Scott Gallery in Toronto. A show of particular talent by an Italian artist (and master art restorer), Eugenio Orciani. The gallery is at 95 Berkley. Walk up the street when you're done there and visit the O'Connor Gallery too (Berkley at Queen) to see Kim Douglas Harrison's landscapes. Not my thing, landscapes, so that's why I'm a bit more excited by Orciani's figurative work -- which is of a technical finesse that is almost frightening.
Oh, speaking of art, cars used to approach that category much more often they do now, ahem. The photos (taken with He Who is Here Now's point and shoot digital) are of a '38 (I think) Buick spotted on main street Stratford (when He Who is Here Now and I, on a whim, took in The Glass Menagerie at the Festival last weekend). You could see all the way to the horizon in the car's shine!
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[Oh, and fuck blogger, it won't publish the photo for reasons it's chosen to impose today only, BUT if you click on the faint little box icon you'll be able to view (most of) the photo... ???]
Went last year -- the art's okay (in that most of it falls well outside the realm of what I like, and collect), but the event is fabulous, held in The Carlu.
Tickets ain't cheap (but not much more, even less, than a meal with wine at a good restaurant) but it's charity and I'll go again this year.
Now there's no art I own that I'd sell, BUT it hurts still that five or six years ago I passed up an opportunity to purchase a Lukacs silkscreen for about $2000 (memories of the price are just above or below that amount among a few people) and one of those silkscreens is in this year's Art With Heart catalogue with a price estimate (e.g. what it would cost at the gallery) for 10 THOUSAND dollars. A couple of years ago I discovered a couple of the silscreens were still available for $7,000, gave it some thought, but as that's about 4 times what my car's worth again passed it. [Sounds alot like the story of St. Michael, the painting, I passed up year ago too, which went up in price 5 times when next it was there in front of me to buy! -- well, at least it proves I've got an eye for good art, perhaps :) ] I predict the Lukacs goes for MUCH more than the estimated price, btw.
My art buying has nothing to do with art as an investment (better off heading to Vegas) but still the ones that got away frustrate a little. And given my retirement savings strategies of "sugar daddy" or lottery win" are unlikely to prove successful....
Anyway, go to artwithheart.ca, see what's up and consider buying a ticket in support of Casey House -- this particular art auction really does provide a highly interesting night of watching-people entertainment, not to mention champagne and unbelievably high-brow "snacks."
Oh, and if you're out and about take in the art show at Craig Scott Gallery in Toronto. A show of particular talent by an Italian artist (and master art restorer), Eugenio Orciani. The gallery is at 95 Berkley. Walk up the street when you're done there and visit the O'Connor Gallery too (Berkley at Queen) to see Kim Douglas Harrison's landscapes. Not my thing, landscapes, so that's why I'm a bit more excited by Orciani's figurative work -- which is of a technical finesse that is almost frightening.
Oh, speaking of art, cars used to approach that category much more often they do now, ahem. The photos (taken with He Who is Here Now's point and shoot digital) are of a '38 (I think) Buick spotted on main street Stratford (when He Who is Here Now and I, on a whim, took in The Glass Menagerie at the Festival last weekend). You could see all the way to the horizon in the car's shine!
[Oh, and fuck blogger, it won't publish the photo for reasons it's chosen to impose today only, BUT if you click on the faint little box icon you'll be able to view (most of) the photo... ???]
posted by Heipel at
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1 Comments:
you have such an artistic taste.... :)
just...
hope you enjoy "watching" more than "buying" paintings...woops...
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