Selling oil paintings?
 

Hey guys,

I have a very large collection of Russian and Ukranian paintings by fairly well known painters from the 1930s-1950s. All of them are oil paintings and have been displayed in various art exhibitions throughout Europe and America. I have had trouble finding a way to sell these paintings and was wondering if anyone knew anything about art selling and where I could sell these paintings. I was thinking I could get them sold through an auction house, but I doubt there's a large enough American market for these painters. Some of these artists paintings have been sold in the 90s throughout Europe (London, Paris, etc.)

If anyone can help direct me to resources or any information on how I could best sell off this collection, it'd be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

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Why not contact the curator at one of galleries it was displayed at, and see if he can be of any help?

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Why not contact the curator at one of galleries it was displayed at, and see if he can be of any help?

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I've googled the artists names to death and I can't seem to find much on where they were actually displayed or who to contact. Some sites I found are old and down and all I could get was a crappy cached version. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Out of curiosity, how did you come to own these paintings without knowing a little more about the art business? Inheritance or something?

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Running bad lately, eh?

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ebay

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Out of curiosity, how did you come to own these paintings without knowing a little more about the art business? Inheritance or something?

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ya something like that

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ebay

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not for these... there's no market there for them and it prob wouldn't be seen by the right buyers... I tried looking around ebay and didn't see any of these cats on there

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Some of these artists paintings have been sold in the 90s throughout Europe (London, Paris, etc.)


Thanks

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I got about 9o bucks. Let me see some work.

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dont even think of using ebay heh.

try taking a look at artnet.com for a VERY widely used online aution house. there are others.

i would have them valued profesionally first so you know what you are dealing with.

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use ebay, use another account to bump it if its not high enough, make sure not to loose it tosome guy bidding 10 dollars.

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take them to the Antiques Road Show that they do on PBS and have them appraised. one of the stodgy appraiser/auctioneer type guys will probably give you the hook up.

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get them appraised. I'm sure this can be done easily enough, just google. Then bring them to an art auction house, i'd guess you'll just have to give them a commission.

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Are they stolen?

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Are they better than Spicy F's work?

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Are they stolen?

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Nope. Collected throughout the years.

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Are they better than Spicy F's work?

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I've never seen Spicy's work LOL, but I bet they are better. Its a lot of Russian scenery paintings, still life, Russian orthodox Christian stuff, etc.


Thanks everyone for the replies, they've been very helpful

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no real market for those i would hold them for 20 years or so and hope for the best. as russa will be a super economy by then. if you must sell any big auction house has art sales a few times a year. put a few in them and see what happens. you will get market value even though you may think they are worth more. things are only worth what wsome one will pay.

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sothebys.com

They appear to have an appraisal service that might be what you're looking for.