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