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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on December 11, 2006, 11:49:55 pm

Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: loulou on December 11, 2006, 11:49:55 pm




The painting had been in the seller's family since the 1920s
The painting had been in the seller's family since the 1920s

Isn't this picture awful. It sold at auction for £150,000 and was discovered on Antiques Roadshow.


Ugly as it is I wouldn't mind one in my attic.

Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: oldspice on December 12, 2006, 06:51:40 am
I think it's OK. I've seen worse at my local painters' guild!
Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: kevvosa on December 12, 2006, 08:44:07 am
It's not so bad, but I've seen better. 
Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: loulou on December 12, 2006, 08:51:48 am
OK?  not bad?  Are you looking at a different painting. It's flipping hideous.
Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: kevvosa on December 12, 2006, 09:00:55 am
It looks like a standard old fashioned painting to me. 
Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: loulou on December 12, 2006, 09:07:53 am
Would you hang it on your wall?
Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: kevvosa on December 12, 2006, 04:03:01 pm
Maybe when I'm 70.
Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: smurfboy on December 12, 2006, 11:21:31 pm
It's nothing special.
Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: loulou on December 13, 2006, 08:27:17 am

Quote from: kevvosa
Maybe when I'm 70.


Ok I'll ask you again in 20 years.

Title: Ugly painting sells for £150,000
Post by: kevvosa on December 13, 2006, 10:08:05 am