These prices are dumb, just wait for next auction and pick them up for a fraction of these asks.

This one went unsold with starting bid of £13k, I'm sure a post sale deal can be done for a larger work on canvas for around 1/3 the price of these. 

www.tateward.com/auction/lot/lot-200---richard-hambleton-canadian-1952-2017-shadow-head-2016/?lot=21032&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=110&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=3&g=1&estimate=18,000-26,000&utm_source=mutualart&utm_medium=referral

I think it’s worth noting that auction prices also have fees upon sale. And the last auction on an artists work doesn’t create the value of every work by that artist. As a qualified curator I can tell you that we do not value work in that way, there is rather more to it. 

I think valuing an entire artists catalog based on one auction result is dumb.

Also worth noting that there's a ton of fakes floating around the market and your account was made last week so references and provenance is essential.

Also I appreciate I am new to the forum, it’s a completely valid comment. I’m pretty easy to find online and on LinkedIn where you can see my professional history, articles etc, and I’m always happy to provide docs or answer any questions on work.

I hope you're joking, you're comparing a 2m2+ (2.4 x 1m) canvas that sold for about £67k to a work on paper a tenth of the size and a work on metal a fifteenth of the size; on a rate per cm2 that would make your works worth about £4-7k, and the comparable is a superior work, being a canvas authenticated by Woodward gallery.

The fact that two similar works on paper sold for $7500 and $15,000 earlier in 2024 and 2023 (swann and sothebys sales), lines up with the value per cm2 seen in other sales and my view that your valuation is over 3x fair value. I get that the art market is not perfect and spreads exist but generally if your price exceeds the fair value by more than 20-30% you're wasting your time and everyone else's. 

You say you're a qualified curator, I'm a Chartered Surveyor by trade and spent decades valuing various kinds of assets, mostly pretty accurately. I've also bought and sold plenty of Hambleton and can tell you his market is in the toilet (you probably know that).The canvas sold at Bonhams in April would have sold for 4-5x more a few years back. My view is not based on one auction result but plenty of private sales and the most recent auction sales many of which were bought in. Anyone with a modicum of sense can see that £50k for a work on paper of that size is 3-4x its value. I'm not sure if you're able to check recent auction sales so I'll help you.

I have a masters degree in curation and experience in curating in both the public and private sector for 10+ years.

And also these are hammer prices. They are not including buyers premium, you can easily check that out with Sothebys.

Are these yours, or are you selling on behalf of/for someone else?

If someone else owns these, then it might explain the prices (for these and the Invaders).

I’m just a friendly person asking so don’t be defensive. 😀

I'll just leave this here. 


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Mr Brainwash, Mr Sly, Adam King, Danny Byrne, Johnny Depp, Yuvi, Paul Normansell etc . All extremely derivitive. Looks like one of hundreds of a by the book art advisory services designed to extract the capital from the wealthy and ignorant. Nothing to see here.

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