Urban Art Association

what's a ball park figure your looking for?

$4k would be a great price for this piece

I very much doubt it would go for $4k. I think right now $2k is more realistic. If you don't need to sell it keep it. Its stunning.

WOW USD$2k? I'm not expert on Faile prices, but that seems low to me for one of these. Even as someone who isn't the biggest Faile fan and only got into some of their work recently, I'd always have appreciated a piece like this. I thought these were worth big bucks... No?

Only basing it on my experience of selling a SOLIB a couple of months ago which is also considered one of the top Failes and was also going for $10k last year.

can't say I agree because I've already had much better offers than that

I too think the price suggested above is (way) too low.
Moreover, mustard - gorgeous piece - one of the nicest i've seen in a while.
Good luck with the sale.
C

thanks oneeye and coach it is gorgeous and a classic! if I don't get a decent price for it I'l frame it and be very happy with it, I just thought I had too many Failes(Garrett would never feel this way) and wanted to mix it up a little and it's the only one I haven't framed yet but the more I look at it the more I want to keep it. Do you still have yours Dank? and yes I also think $2k for a SOLIB is too low, I've seen many inferior prints go for more, afroken must have had to sell it quick.
I have to say I know a lot of people have come off Faile right now and most artists will go up and down but the Faile NYC hand finished low edition hand painted prints are SOOOO Quality and Class they are some of the best prints around, they lie somewhere between an original and a print. So if you don't follow the trends there are some great ones to be had and no I'm not just saying that because I have one for sale..

Rampage sucks though, who cares. But seriously, before people put too much weight on the price of a print like Rampage etc.

I think it's better to consider that maybe people have not come off Faile and think that their prices are in the gutter. But consider that prints like these should have probably never commanded a price tag of 10k like they were last year when prices were running wild. That sh*t was a total fluke.

You brought up micallef, but a micallef painting sold for about 30k+ at christies last month. Respectable. A minor faile piece on wood went for 10k at christies a couple months ago. Pretty strong price for the piece. The money is in originals, like its always been. Faile prints are nice but this stuff is small time in the grand scheme.

I think my estimate is dead on. I believe they should get $5k, but $4k is the fairest in this climate. $2k, you can suck a d ick.

Then again its only worth what someone is willing to pay.
Best of luck

$3500-$4500. Might take some time but hey, the days of selling art 20 mins after making it avail are long gone. Person(s) saying $2k have absolutely no clue. To even bring up rampage as a reference shows that he/she has no clue.

ok so 4 editions and a maybe 5 originals on paper is tired?
One edition being on large Faile stock paper (38 x 50) from an edition of 15 done in 03'
Two editions being heavily worked and desired consisting of 23 prints together. Now you also have the monochrome red edition, which not all have been released, regardless due to the lack of applied paints I don't believe these are in the same league. In total making it 38 rather desirable prints of one image. In relation to other artists print's this is still a low amount...

Let's take a look at Sinful Pleasures, 5 editions and definitely more than 5 OG's on paper not to mention the cropped variation's. Get acquainted w/ a faile girl 5 editions, Bunny girl 7 editions, and the list can go on if you wish. The point being that if you do your homework on Faile's work you'll realize that they enjoy recycling their images. Now in relation to other desirable Faile images from prior to 07' the Butterfly Girl is not that tired of an image just a popular one. Fact of the matter is that to acquire a well executed piece of this image is not that feasible. If you saw all the work from Faile's last show you'll notice that the BFG image is not used anywhere, coincidence I think not.

In fact the rarest NYC edition Faile including mono's is Smoking Silence, 2 editions of 8. In reality though 1 edition is far superior to other so there's really only 8...and mustard i'll have her for a long time.

It will be interesting to see where prices are for Faile in a year or so. I would not sell a Faile print today unless I really needed the money, but I think things will get even worse in the near term.

For those of you slamming Rampage, remember that the print sold out in minutes and was part of the famous summer 2007 release. Just because a larger, less popular edition was released does not make the smaller edition a piece of crap. Less desirable maybe, less valuable, yes, but it is still a great print to me, much in the same way SOLIB is better than Key Foods and the brown version.

Some really good points have been made, and maybe the value of SOLIB suffered because people could suddenly get a brown one for fraction of the price, despite the obvious difference in quality.

I didn't compare Rampage to BFG in terms of image. I was referring to price trends. These were changing hands at nearly £4k at the top of the market. A SOLIB sold at £9,500. This suggests that the best and most desirable prints that had the most inflated prices have seen a drop of around 70%. I think I do have a clue.

Mustard, one thing I've realised with eBay is that if you keep relisting a piece and lowering the price it seems to put people off and have a detrimental effect on value. You started at $8,250. The second time you listed it at $8,000 you got a very good offer that you didn't accept. And since then you've listed it at ever decreasing prices until $5,000 and it's languished there without any offers at all. Unfortunately, if it hasn't sold on eBay after being listed 5 times, it probably won't sell for anywhere near the price you want for it. Your only hope is finding someone who is desperate for this print and will go the distance to acquire one, but by relisting and reducing you may have put that person off as they've perhaps woken up to the fact that if they hold tight they may well get one for a fraction of what they were willing to pay for it.

JP is right. Hang on to it. I don't think things will get any worse so hold out in the hope that they will get better.