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[Gracie]

I’ve a question to ask you ladies, I bought a painting in 1980 for my ex wife on holiday, it’s hung on the wall of my house even after we split up. My question is this; As I bought the painting for her should I give her half the money if I sell it?

No.
Meanwhile..love the painting!

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

I’ve a question to ask you ladies, I bought a painting in 1980 for my ex wife on holiday, it’s hung on the wall of my house even after we split up. My question is this; As I bought the painting for her should I give her half the money if I sell it?

No.
Meanwhile..love the painting!

Thanks Gracie.

It’s a Barry Hilton original, one of his earliest.
Barry Hilton

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

As you scroll thru link, the Paintings of the sail ships you can tell this was a pretty much one of just trial paintings.

 

[Gracie]

Very nice! Yours is Evening Moaring. I wonder what you will get for it?

I had to sell my personally owned Osterloh painting. Damn, I hated to have to do that but it was a necessity.

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I sold quite a few of them for him when I had my shop some years before on consignment. This one he did of his dad and James Cagney. His dad was in the movies back in the day.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Very nice! Yours is Evening Moaring. I wonder what you will get for it?

I had to sell my personally owned Osterloh painting. Damn, I hated to have to do that but it was a necessity.

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I sold quite a few of them for him when I had my shop some years before on consignment. This one he did of his dad and James Cagney. His dad was in the movies back in the day.

Interesting reading about him. Self taught, war vet. Pretty darn good artist.

 

[Gracie]

I sold this one for him in the amount of 1500 bucks. He had an old portrait of a mountain man, but it was so damaged, it was hard to see the face of the guy..so he put his own in.

 

[Gracie]

Funny story about him. I first saw his work at a Native American shop in Morro Bay, Ca. They were selling a few of his pieces and I fell in love with them all. So..I set about trying to find him, being a fan and all..I wanted to tell him just how much his art spoke to me. So, here I am seeking Robert Osterloh and only getting his dad, not knowing it was his dad and thinking this guy lived in LA or some exotic far away place that great artists live...like France or England or some such. So I look and look and look, because he is very private or so I was told by the store owner. Then one day, he walked in with another painting. I was amazed and said I had been looking for him. He laughed, bummed a cig off me and we went outside to have a smoke and when I asked point blank where he lived, he said about 4 blocks from where I was at that time currently living. LOL.
After that smoke...I left the Native American shop I was working at, opened my own shop, and got him to bring me his art to sell for him .
I traded a fairly expensive persian rug for Red Wing..the painting I first posted above. But some years later..had to sell it. Dammit.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Funny story about him. I first saw his work at a Native American shop in Morro Bay, Ca. They were selling a few of his pieces and I fell in love with them all. So..I set about trying to find him, being a fan and all..I wanted to tell him just how much his art spoke to me. So, here I am seeking Robert Osterloh and only getting his dad, not knowing it was his dad and thinking this guy lived in LA or some exotic far away place that great artists live...like France or England or some such. So I look and look and look, because he is very private or so I was told by the store owner. Then one day, he walked in with another painting. I was amazed and said I had been looking for him. He laughed, bummed a cig off me and we went outside to have a smoke and when I asked point blank where he lived, he said about 4 blocks from where I was at that time currently living. LOL.
After that smoke...I left the Native American shop I was working at, opened my own shop, and got him to bring me his art to sell for him .
I traded a fairly expensive persian rug for Red Wing..the painting I first posted above. But some years later..had to sell it. Dammit.

Thanks for sharing that with us Gracie

Caravaggio the 16th century painter painted his own image in most of his paintings too.

 

[Gracie]

I also started a website for him and bitched/nagged him to do prints. After I got sick, closed the shop and lost the house, I had no further contact with him. Lost the website address too. Had it on Angelfire. Only reason I found the one of the Mountain Man is because I just now googled Osterloh Angelfire and there it was.
Saw he has a brand new website too! Good for him!

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Funny story about him. I first saw his work at a Native American shop in Morro Bay, Ca. They were selling a few of his pieces and I fell in love with them all. So..I set about trying to find him, being a fan and all..I wanted to tell him just how much his art spoke to me. So, here I am seeking Robert Osterloh and only getting his dad, not knowing it was his dad and thinking this guy lived in LA or some exotic far away place that great artists live...like France or England or some such. So I look and look and look, because he is very private or so I was told by the store owner. Then one day, he walked in with another painting. I was amazed and said I had been looking for him. He laughed, bummed a cig off me and we went outside to have a smoke and when I asked point blank where he lived, he said about 4 blocks from where I was at that time currently living. LOL.
After that smoke...I left the Native American shop I was working at, opened my own shop, and got him to bring me his art to sell for him .
I traded a fairly expensive persian rug for Red Wing..the painting I first posted above. But some years later..had to sell it. Dammit.

Thanks for sharing that with us Gracie

Caravaggio the 16th century painter painted his own image in most of his paintings too.

It was the first holiday i could properly afford in 1980, we had our first son in 1978, I had passed my driving test in 1979 and my father in law let me use his prized Rover 2.5 saloon to Newquay in Cornwall.
We’d hired a caravan for the week at a holiday park, it was cheap and cheerful, it gave the young wife a break.
At the end of the week I had a bit of spare money and we walked into a gallery/shop. The saleswoman explained “this is a special one, Barry Hilton doesn’t do many vertical paintings” and so I bought it for my ex wife.
The cost I believe £75 and they framed it too.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

I also started a website for him and bitched/nagged him to do prints. After I got sick, closed the shop and lost the house, I had no further contact with him. Lost the website address too. Had it on Angelfire. Only reason I found the one of the Mountain Man is because I just now googled Osterloh Angelfire and there it was.
Saw he has a brand new website too! Good for him!

I also started a website for him and bitched/nagged him to do prints. After I got sick, closed the shop and lost the house, I had no further contact with him. Lost the website address too. Had it on Angelfire. Only reason I found the one of the Mountain Man is because I just now googled Osterloh Angelfire and there it was.
Saw he has a brand new website too! Good for him!

I also started a website for him and bitched/nagged him to do prints. After I got sick, closed the shop and lost the house, I had no further contact with him. Lost the website address too. Had it on Angelfire. Only reason I found the one of the Mountain Man is because I just now googled Osterloh Angelfire and there it was.
Saw he has a brand new website too! Good for him!

It’s a sad story Gracie, you sound like you’ve had a whale of a time when you were younger tho.

Just like you I’ve been around and done stuff. With more time we can share stories on here?

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Very nice! Yours is Evening Moaring. I wonder what you will get for it?

This will give you an idea. Barry Hilton Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Barry Hilton Art Value Price Guide

 

[Gracie]

Oh, I was a wild one, that's for sure. Was a biker chick for a short time..rode with some non affiliated tough guys, was an old lady to one of them but bailed when he wanted to add another chick to our little twosome. I don't do sloppy seconds, .

Then I was a galley cook on a tuna boat. Had to sneak onboard, hide my butt length hair under a baseball cap/hoody from the cap'n cuz he didn't allow females on his boat, and the crew called me Charlie. Got busted up in San Fran, hitchhiked home and called it a nice experience after I finally lost my sea legs.

Just a few short stories of my wild and crazy life.

 

[Gracie]

Very nice! Yours is Evening Moaring. I wonder what you will get for it?

This will give you an idea. Barry Hilton Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Barry Hilton Art Value Price Guide

No clue how much those are in american dollars, but I presume a nice price.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Very nice! Yours is Evening Moaring. I wonder what you will get for it?

This will give you an idea. Barry Hilton Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Barry Hilton Art Value Price Guide

No clue how much those are in american dollars, but I presume a nice price.

£1,500 =$2,000

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Oh, I was a wild one, that's for sure. Was a biker chick for a short time..rode with some non affiliated tough guys, was an old lady to one of them but bailed when he wanted to add another chick to our little twosome. I don't do sloppy seconds, .

Then I was a galley cook on a tuna boat. Had to sneak onboard, hide my butt length hair under a baseball cap/hoody from the cap'n cuz he didn't allow females on his boat, and the crew called me Charlie. Got busted up in San Fran, hitchhiked home and called it a nice experience after I finally lost my sea legs.

Just a few short stories of my wild and crazy life.

I get the idea... I’ve watched “Sons of Anarchy”

 

[Foxfyre]

Very nice! Yours is Evening Moaring. I wonder what you will get for it?

This will give you an idea. Barry Hilton Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Barry Hilton Art Value Price Guide

I was just thinking that your painting would probably be in at least the £1500 range now. Perhaps more if you sold it to a private collector; maybe less if you sell to a gallery.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

In 1982 we had our 2nd son, he was 3 months old when the company I worked for asked me if I wanted to work on the QE2. It had returned from the Falklands war and needed a refit.
I joined the ship with mostly Manchester guys from a different branch of the company, we were put to work refurbishing the AC in cabins.
We sailed with the ship, mostly rich yank passengers. As we were working passengers we were allowed to join the rich Americans on an evening even eating in the “Tables of the world” restaurant.
Probably did around 10 Atlantic crossing to American cities then down to the Caribbean islands, then back to Southampton. Then the world tour began straight after. Saw the world free of course, I have....lots to tell.

 

[Gracie]

Slap it on ebay...you will get world wide bidders.

 

[Gracie]

Ebay used to rock. Not sure how it is now. But it does have a wider audience.