£20k plus VAT 🤦

Many artists these days are a one trick pony. Social media, and particularly Instagram, fuel this fire, causing artists to product recognizable, easily identifiable works with animals, logos, flowers, colorful images, and generally distinguishable characters. 

I'm sure people will argue that all artists have a style, and many do. A style certainly means something, and causes us to recognize an artist without slapping a plaque next to the image, which is a notable achievement. But a hook? A repetitive image? That's a label, or a brand, brands often don't hold value over time. 

And so I think many artists, in many tiers, from martin whatson, to Kaws (except his original prints), much of murakami (particularly flowerball items), Katrin Fridrics, Mehdi (although maybe not that he now moved on from the giant cube in 90% of images), to Jerkface will have prices of their works and interest in their work just slowly slide downward.

Which brings me to the point. I think Harland Miller is going down. He is not a one, but a two trick pony. I think the old clever penguin works are amazing at first sight, but without the penguin, and with the cleverness (word?) becoming mundane, I cannot see his market continuing to rise. I know... half this forum invested his works so I'm sure the "superfriends" will come to defend him. But I don't think it will be noteworthy in the long term, or that it will hold value very well. 

Case in point, is this. 
www.newarteditions.com/harland-miller-in-shadows-i-boogie-thought-after-filthy-thought/
No penguin. Not even the word penguin.s**tty slogan.
I just think it's over. There's nothing left.

At first read I thought you were trying to spark a actual discussion.... But after seeing you write off any potential counterpoints as being from “investors” or “super fans” I was quickly reminded of where I was and immediately lost interest.