Urban Art Association

I have to say the red does take me back to being a painter and decorator and spending a day painting a room a similar shade of red with a psychopath whilst he blared Captain Beefheart out of a small tinny portable tape deck. So I don't find these very calming.

Let’s discuss the art…which number are people going to buy?

3 and 4 are my tops

Personally I’m buying, I like 4 and 5. At this point I’m thinking one physical and one NFT. I’d go double NFT but I’ve never bought one before and can’t help but think I’ll make a mistake at some point and lose it or something. With the NFT you know you will get your print eventually but also strange things happen in that world so could be an interesting ride.

I’m surprised no one else has said it yet, but the reason why Heni have released as an “NFT Deed” is so they can get their % of each sale (is it 4%?). They know that a lot of people are only buying to flip (over the next 3 years), so why shouldn’t they get their cut. Good on them.

I'll bet these will not be double o n actual sales. One is asking price, another is actual sales... do not forget. Only idiots buy at asking price. You can also get Virtues far cheaper than the auctions suggest

if I decide to pull the trigger it would be for 10-5

mesmerizing pattern and separates itself from the others

Not when you stand in front of the good stuff it ain't. It's not all jam and glitter.

10-1 and 10-2 are my favourites

Even if thousands of each variant are sold in this window, there is one point I'd make.

"Editions" as a medium and type of art are becoming more and more popular. There is more demand than ever. Picasso, Matisse, Hodgkin, Moore, Lichtenstein etc would often do editions of 50 or so, perhaps 100. And they would make lots of different editions. Where you had an artist do an edition run of 1,000+ (like Warhol occasionally did), the value would be nowhere near that of the smaller edition sizes.

But things are changing in today's art market. Perhaps more people are buying art. Perhaps those who do are less fussed about having a 1/50 or 1/100. Harland Miller can do a run of 250 penguin prints (Who Cares Wins) and they'll still quadruple/quintuple in price from launch. Tracey Emin can make an edition of 1,000 (The Kiss) and people will now pay well into four figures for it. Richter can make 500 Tulips and latest going price at auction is already more than 4x price less than five years ago. We've seen from Hirst himself that having 1,300 of a particular Virtues piece (and circa 10,000 across the whole series of similar looking images) is no barrier to price appreciation.

I wouldn't be so bold as to predict that Empresses will go up at all, or to any particular price level, but I would say that an edition size of 2-3000 won't be hugely problematic. If anything, it reflects the very strong demand for these pieces in the first place. Although it's true that a larger and larger proportion of the number in each Hirst/Heni release will attributed to flippers, speculators and small galleries as many have said, I don't think that will affect things in the medium to long term.

Bumping this poll, as it's fun to watch the votes come in. Seeing the tallied results caught me by surprise, without giving anything away, the design in first place (at the time of writing this) is not what I would have guessed.

Was interested this too, especially as the top 2 were my choices.

They all look like giant red sphincters