| Buying and collecting abstract painting can | | | | painting I bought for her hanging on the wall |
| be a labor of love. I love abstract | | | | of her living room. |
| paintings. I think that my favorite medium | | | | |
| is gouache. I recently purchased a work from | | | | I dated a guy once that had a signed abstract |
| Oscar Bluemner. The person I bought the | | | | painting by Robert Gilberg on his wall. I |
| abstract painting from had it in storage for | | | | saw something different every time I saw it. |
| over twenty years. I am going to hang this | | | | That painting had an attraction that I just |
| piece in my office. | | | | cant quite explain. He was always buying art |
| | | | and changing out abstract paintings on his |
| I found an oil abstract painting that was | | | | walls, but this particular piece always |
| dated 1947 that was painted by Louis Bassi | | | | stayed. I guess he was attracted to it as |
| Siegriest. I liked the composition, it felt | | | | well. |
| oddly soothing. The artist signed the back | | | | |
| of the painting. It was a little out of my | | | | The abstract painting that I bought for my |
| price range, but I bought it anyway. | | | | older brother did not work in his apartment. |
| | | | I ended up buying a painting that was a |
| Trade Winds is the name of an abstract | | | | little too large for the room it was intended |
| painting I bought from the artist Joanne | | | | for. The colors did not work in the only |
| Riddle while I was in Connecticut. The piece | | | | room that worked for its size. |
| was huge and I had to have it sent by freight | | | | |
| to my home. The blue in the painting was so | | | | I ended up selling that abstract painting the |
| vivid. The whole composition was absolutely | | | | same place that I had bought it, on eBay! I |
| inspired. | | | | ended up making a profit on the abstract |
| | | | painting. There was more information in my |
| I bought an abstract painting for my | | | | auction about the artist, Richard Diebenkorn, |
| sister-in-law last year. The artist of the | | | | than there had been in the auction that I |
| piece was Leonardo Nierman and the medium he | | | | won. I think the extra hour of research I |
| used was oil. I bought the piece unframed | | | | spent made the abstract paintings value |
| and took my sister-in-law to framer to choose | | | | increase. |
| the frame. | | | | |
| | | | I learned a long time ago that an abstract |
| I tried to buy an abstract painting from the | | | | painting is worth exactly as much as someone |
| mayor of our town. I offered him two | | | | is willing to pay for it. I have friends |
| thousand dollars for the modernist abstract | | | | that just cannot be convinced of this basic |
| colorful figure. The artist used red, white | | | | truth. I think that if no one wants a |
| and blue and I wanted to acquire this for my | | | | particular abstract painting, then it is |
| stepmother. She would have loved it, but the | | | | worth nothing. |
| mayor was unwilling to part with it. | | | | |
| | | | My brother used the money from the sale of |
| My mother has decorated her home in a style | | | | the unwanted abstract painting to find |
| that she liked in Santa Fe. I bought a large | | | | himself another abstract painting. He ended |
| abstract painting for her from her favorite | | | | up with an abstract collage that was made in |
| artist, Lou Monti. She has seen his work in | | | | the late 1930s. I liked it when I saw it and |
| a number of homes and always raves about | | | | it worked beautifully in his office. |
| them. She was so happy when she saw the | | | | |