Another, long gone, aquatint by Belgian artist, Jean-Michel Folon....discarded by an insurance company after it was replaced, having been lost in shipment from The Lefebre Gallery to some unknown recipient....and ending up at Peachtree Salvage Center in Brookhaven, where, on a luncheon outing from my job at Saks, and spying it against a wall of old movie posters, I purchased it for $8.........a few years later, I sold it for some real bucks, to pay the apartment rent, since I was bed-bound and relatively immobilized by hepatitis.......I guess this is what I REALLY attended College to learn how to 'do'.......A couple of years later, I did a 'trade' with my friend Norman Lindsay Patterson, who had purchased 'the other Folon....at the same junk store, ironically'....and traded it to my landlord, Jack Hotchkins, in place of the rent check for 4 Flea Market Booths at the Atlanta Flea Market...... Another example of the 'relativity of perspective'.......the 'back' of a Picasso etching.....blacked out and discarded....retrieved from the illustrious artist's trash can, then matted, framed and sold......for thousands of bucks. After the Antonio Banderas Picasso Biopic, values of even Picasso's 'trash' skyrocketed........In the late 1960's I bought two large Picasso etchings [that I found in a barrel of rolled up wallpaper at....again..... Peachtree Quality Salvage] of the artist, masturbating as he sketched nude models..... $8, for the pair.... I sold them to my friend, antiques dealer, Hal Chamberlain, for $4000, thinking Hal was nuts to offer me so much for them........Then, many times, I've come across this kind of "stuff" for several times this amount.....Go Figure......What's in 'a Name'......apparently, much of anything's value.....I remember the painting that was sold, decades ago, at Sotheby's......that was discovered to have been 'created' by a monkey, flinging its own feces at a canvas.........."The work of a Genius", Gallery owners and collectors declared!
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