To sell an expensive painting abusive ex gave me?

[BeeBeeBuzz]

When we were still together my now ex bought me a beautiful painting from a gallery. I fell in love with the starry sky. It remained boxed in it's gallery wrappings whilst I was decorating. Since then though he became violent & I had to get a restraining order. I kept the picture for a year trying to decide if I could bear to look at it now we've separated but I've decided no. The thing is it's a very individual piece, I'm not sure anyone would buy it, though I could really do with the money right now. Aibu to sell it or should I leave it a bit longer & see if I change my mind?

Please DON'T charity shop it if it's a print.

The £1950 cost was for the limited edition PRINT.

Depending upon the artist limited edition signed prints are worth as much as other artist's paintings.

Anyone involved in buying art knows this.

Irrespective @knitpicker a limited edition print will still sell well so please don't imply it isn't worth anything.

We have limited edition prints that have increased 25% of their value.

We can't all afford to spend £10k on the original.

Sell it and spend the money on something you know the prick wouldn’t like, such as a trip away with female friends, a luxurious stay somewhere. Take pleasure in the fact that the abusive wanker is paying for it.

So is it a print or the original @BeeBeeBuzz please put us out of our misery?!

Sell it and spend the money on something you know the prick wouldn’t like, such as a trip away with female friends, a luxurious stay somewhere. Take pleasure in the fact that the abusive wanker is paying for it.

I posted above that I thought you should hang on to it a bit to decide - but if you have decided you can't bear it do the above!
I did this when my ex and I split up. The wanker used to make a fuss about me buying clothes. Always went on about hating women wearing pink and orange and other bright colours.
The fucker kept paying his half of the bills for the flat for a couple of months and I took that money and bought a load of clothes - yes, pink and orange were among the colours.

Its definitely a print, on canvas. Sometimes artists in these gallery chains embellish prints by putting blobs of paint on them to make them appear like paintings.

Its very overpriced in my opinion, you can buy lovely originals by established artists for that price, maybe not as large as that.

I would offer it back to the gallery to see if they will buy it back. If it is out of print they may do.

You could also ask the gallery if you can do an exchange.

If you love it, hang it as reminder that your a strong women who didn’t let an abusive asshole get the better of her.

Depending upon the artist - these are the key words when speculating as to whether a print will increase in value or not @wheresmymojo

Well yes, of course depending on the artist.

One of my signed artworks of my cat would fetch nothing!

Equally though when a limited edition print cost £2k to purchase it is not going to be worthless or ready for the charity shop.

Personally I would sell it because it would remind me of him. There are plenty of other lovely pieces of art out there that you can buy.

Hang it upside down for now, somewhere where you will see it from time to time.

Reflect on the fact the world is not perfect.

When you are ready, turn it the right way up. Then decide.

knit, you can tell the OP’s picture is a print because someone else linked to ltd ed prints of the image?

It is perfectly possible that BeeBee’s is a print but the link to the limited edition print was posted by a different poster (itsbetterwithoutyou), not the OP. The image used in the OP looks like a generic google images version of the picture. The OP has said hers is still in original packaging and she can’t bear to look at it, she very unlikely to have unwrapped it to photograph it for an MN thread. Therefore, we’ve not even seen BeeBee’s picture to judge it.

It’s very ambiguous about the actual technique. Other than it’s on canvas. But you can digitally print on canvas. Or stencil/screen print aka Warhol.

But the resale value seems pretty nil unless you can put it on eBay or sell it back to the gallery. I would try gallery first.

And yes. Why would you want that monolith to your shitty ex staring at you everyday

Exchange is a really good idea. But still expect to get less than the original sale value.

My exh gave me a picture. I have kept it. In the attic. Nice picture but too much baggage.
Not worth thousands unfortunately, otherwise it would have been sold.
Contact an art appraiser and buy yourself a freedom picture with the proceeds

Not the same, but I had to get rid of my favourite bag, I loved it soo much, was really expensive and I only got £350 back for it, but I couldn’t disassociate it from my ex :(

@BeeBeeBuzz is it a print or the actual painting?

It looks like you have one of the boxed canvases, which sold for around £1950. info here. It is a signed giclee print (printed on to canvas) and then signed by the artist. Is it an Artist's Proof by any chance? The price is outrageous - you could have bought an original Tracey Emin for the same money.

There is a story behind it (rather tenuous I'm afraid) which you can see on . The artist took poems from the First World War poets and interpreted them as she painted, then made an installation which required digital technology to interact with it.

Personally, I think it is of little artistic merit but it probably has some monetary value. Flog it and buy something that you like.

“It looks like...”

Have I missed something? Has the OP posted a picture of the actual item? She says it is still boxed in original wrappings. How do you know what “it looks like”?

@NewYear2018 op has not confirmed what she actually has

RTFT

I have “RTFT” as you so charmingly put it, @NewYear2018 but the OP has only posted a couple of times. Neither of those posts state whether the picture is an original, a boxed canvas print, a giclee on paper or indeed an open edition. Unless you can see something I can’t?

@NewYear2018

RTFT

I've RTFT, maybe you could explain where s/he shows what they have?

OP says When we were still together my now ex bought me a beautiful painting from a gallery

You wrote It looks like you have one of the boxed canvases, which sold for around £1950. info here. It is a signed giclee print (printed on to canvas) and then signed by the artist where the heck are you getting that from?

@NewYear2018 OP hasn’t confirmed whether she has the original or a print.