I sold my first painting for $5. Really. It was 1947 and I was 10 years old. My mother showed one of my paintings to a friend of hers and the lady insisted on buying it for $5. which today would be about $75. I think the purpose was to encourage me. Later on in college I sold work for $25. One of those is now in a museum collection. I saw a few others another offered on ArtNet auctions just two weeks ago ( for several thousand) at well below market price for my current work. I now an artist who actually had a serious drawing show where everything was priced at $3. He wanted to make a point about the art market. He did. And he earned maybe $100. wc
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