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my name is Clifford Lansbury i'm maanna
partners here at garages and I've been
specializing in paintings for getting on
for 20 years now typically here at
garages we see an awful lot of 19th
century art oils and watercolors that
were the bread and butter of the
antiques trade for many many years
really right through from you know the
Victorian period through to the late
1980s 1990s and then coming up the year
2000 we saw this big change in taste
which happened across the board and a
lot of those traditional pictures are
now lots of desirable and other things
that were perhaps frowned upon as being
unfashionable and not so traditionally
correct and now very much in vogue and
we're looking at a whole different
reasons for why things have value and
for why people want them valuations are
based really on three things what the
item is what the condition is
and what the demand for that item might
be so is it by the hand of the artist or
is it a copy or is it a fake is it in
good condition is it lovely original
order or has to be lots of over painting
or water damage or something like that
and then finally what's the market view
on that item is it in fashion is there
going to be lots of demand or is it
something that is really quite difficult
to sell either due to fashion or perhaps
due to what the depiction is it might be
something on firstly were like a dead
bird for instance the main things that
would devalue a painting would be
obviously it needs to be correct it
needs to be in good condition but the
subject matter is going to have a big
factor so if we look at portraits
traditionally a young pretty lady is
more saleable than a grumpy looking
elderly lady so there's all kinds of
factors that come in and then these
factors change over time so what may
have influenced desirability
back in the 1980s could have a different
different take on it now in the 21st
century let's look back to relevant when
I started in the nineteen late 80s and
what was in demand will William Russell
Flint Prince you couldn't get your hands
on enough of them
there were London auction rooms putting
on specialist sales of them and some of
them were making several thousand pounds
this is for a limited edition color
print now the Russell Flint's have died
of death now and they have dropped out
of fashion generations have moved on
people don't want what their parents or
grandparents how long walls so much so
those Russell Flint's are now making
about 100 pounds each and what are they
were wanting now well Terry frost very
desirable got a number of those coming
up in one of our sales next months we
also see John Piper it's being very
desirable and exactly the same sort of
color print in a way these
limited-edition color prints are all the
rage and they're changing hands and
around about a thousand pounds depending
on the item if we look at an artist like
Lowry Lawrence Stephen Lowry the limited
edition color prints of his works have
come right up and they were fairly
inexpensive to buy you might spend 150
200 pounds ten years ago so now we're
seeing those change hands a thousand
upwards someone made ten thousand even
more so it's all about fashion and the
pitfalls of fashion obviously if you're
buying are that though you like it now
because everybody else might give it 20
30 years and your cherished valuable
possessions might not be as valuable or
cherished by the next generation so we
see things come and go Doralee john
classic example I'm showing over my
shoulder we've got some they're bright
gaudy jazzy looking pictures not
respected in the 80s and 90s very low
opinion of them now we've got a massive
demand for them so
picture that was a hundred pounds 20
years ago is now quite comfortably 1,500
2,000 pounds so the wins and where Falls
of fashion change over time and as
auctioneers and valuers we try to keep a
pace with that and advise people on both
when to buy and what to sell but it's
really down to taste and personal choice
depending on your budget there's all
sorts of areas you could look at
contemporary is something we don't
particularly get involved in and that
Rudy's probably the highest risk because
you're buying usually at gallery price
is quite high and you're just rolling
the dice to see whether that artist will
become more desirable over time and very
few of them do to be frank majority do
not become more valuable but there's
always one or two Tracie Emmons the the
hot news of the world whose works have
shot up in value in terms of what you
should buy for coming to auction then
the old adage is buy what you like and
then at least if it's gone down in value
you feel like the painting perhaps not
quite as much because you paid for it
but you still like it so that's the key
thing beyond that there are areas that
are certainly undervalued at present so
classic Victorian oil paintings are very
good value for money for what you're
getting as long as you're buying a
correct picture in good condition so
talk to the auctioneer first then modern
British is where all the money is it
looks good in modern interiors a lot of
demand for that and modern prints I
think there's a fair argument that those
pictures are still going to motor on for
the next 20 to 30 years after that who
can say so yeah go with what you like
but take some advice from auctioneers
and valuers and other other dealers
perhaps and yes move carefully into
whatever you're going in
to condition or North anticipate it in
good condition by the right artist least
you've got a right items but if you're
thinking of buying for yourself you
should really go along a view it in
person don't just look at the picture
from the front the lift it off the wall
have a look at the back quite often the
back and the picture is more interest in
the front lovely old labels and
exhibition and history and the like so
always always look around the picture
don't just look at the the
two-dimensional image the most memorable
picture that we have so here at Goran
jiz well it was a painting in terms of
value the highest value item we've sold
here at gorgeous was a picture which is
work by God wood that we sold for an
all-in price of around about a half a
million pounds I was on the rostrum for
that that was kind of fun it started at
around about 50,000 and then crept all
the way up so pictures generally are the
most valuable things that go through
cell rooms with the exception of course
of Chinese art which also packs a punch
every now and then otherwise other
pictures of memorable just for the work
we did around them to research them
sometimes we have to take things to
specialists and experts and museums and
the like and to committees that the
passed judgment on whether our pitch is
right or wrong that can be rewarding or
incredibly frustrating who we've all
seen the television program called
fortune and that really does sum up that
process so that again is part and parcel
of what we do here at Claridge's
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what we're looking for in terms of sale
well we'd love to have a studio
collection of any of the great names of
the 20th century and British art or
we're always looking for a long-lost
Picasso or Renoir or have you in theory
they're out there but they're far and
few between
generally what regarded as sort of
hidden or lost art has actually fallen
down through an artist family or drifted
sideways where works were given to
people that were around that artists so
there's still the potential for some
some real special items to to come out
from hiding but otherwise when you know
looking for good quality pictures that
we could put into our multi sort of
faceted sails
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