• Hi, I am the owner and main administrator of Styleforum. If you find the forum useful and fun, please help support it by buying through the posted links on the forum. Our main, very popular sales thread, where the latest and best sales are listed, are posted HERE

    Purchases made through some of our links earns a commission for the forum and allows us to do the work of maintaining and improving it. Finally, thanks for being a part of this community. We realize that there are many choices today on the internet, and we have all of you to thank for making Styleforum the foremost destination for discussions of menswear.
  • This site contains affiliate links for which Styleforum may be compensated.
  • STYLE. COMMUNITY. GREAT CLOTHING.

    Bored of counting likes on social networks? At Styleforum, you’ll find rousing discussions that go beyond strings of emojis.

    Click Here to join Styleforum's thousands of style enthusiasts today!

    Styleforum is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Some Southeast Asian Paintings I found (pics)

suited

Distinguished Member
Joined
Aug 18, 2008
Messages
7,642
Reaction score
3,562
These paintings were all my great uncles. Most were painted in Thailand, Cambodia or Vietnam in the late 60's or mid 70's. They have been in my grandfathers basement forever. I've just taken them out and I am going to have them appraised next week. I've taken the following paintings to put in my condo and I wanted to get some opinions from those who are well versed in art, because I know little or nothing about it. One of the paintings (not pictured) was appraised at $15-20,000 a few years back. I do not believe all of them are nearly that valuable, but I'm hoping some are worth selling and I plan on keeping the following for my place...
6.jpg
4.jpg
13-a.jpg
20.jpg
21.jpg
7.jpg
 

DNW

Distinguished Member
Joined
Mar 10, 2006
Messages
9,976
Reaction score
6
Originally Posted by suited
7.jpg

I particularly like this one. How much, shipped to NYC?
 

suited

Distinguished Member
Joined
Aug 18, 2008
Messages
7,642
Reaction score
3,562
Originally Posted by DarkNWorn
I particularly like this one. How much, shipped to NYC?
I'm in the process of getting it appraised/framed right now. I actually only decided to keep 3 for my place, that being one of them. The others really don't fit well with my place (too museumish). I will let you know if and when the appraiser is able to give me a value, should be in the next couple of weeks.
 

DNW

Distinguished Member
Joined
Mar 10, 2006
Messages
9,976
Reaction score
6
Originally Posted by suited
I'm in the process of getting it appraised/framed right now. I actually only decided to keep 3 for my place, that being one of them. The others really don't fit well with my place (too museumish). I will let you know if and when the appraiser is able to give me a value, should be in the next couple of weeks.

I was just messing around with you man. I like it, but I'm not a big painting-hanger-person.
smile.gif


Hope it's worth something.
 

Alter

Distinguished Member
Joined
Dec 29, 2004
Messages
4,321
Reaction score
144
Make sure the appraiser is well-versed in Asian art and can justify their appraisals. If you really want to be sure of the value I would recommend to have a second appraisal done.

You should send a PM to Lucky Strike to try to get his opinion.
 

suited

Distinguished Member
Joined
Aug 18, 2008
Messages
7,642
Reaction score
3,562
Originally Posted by Alter
Make sure the appraiser is well-versed in Asian art and can justify their appraisals. If you really want to be sure of the value I would recommend to have a second appraisal done. You should send a PM to Lucky Strike to try to get his opinion.
The appraiser specializes in international art, but in my opinion I'd have to try and sell them in New York or California to get close to their full value. I like numbers 1, 3 and 5. Those are the three I decided to keep for my place. They have value to me because of the family history, but I wouldn't mind making a buck off the ones I don't want to keep- there are about 28 more that aren't pictured.
 

bbaquiran

Distinguished Member
Joined
Dec 3, 2007
Messages
2,956
Reaction score
242
I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure #5 is by a Filipino artist.
 

emptym

Moderator
Moderator
Joined
Sep 22, 2007
Messages
9,659
Reaction score
7,364
^ Me too. A few of the others look Filipino to me as well.
 

acidboy

Stylish Dinosaur
Spamminator Moderator
Joined
Mar 13, 2006
Messages
19,672
Reaction score
1,555
^ probably. the carriage, or "calesa" design is definitely Philippine inspired. the last painting I believe is Vietnamese... I've seen that series in a catalog from Singapore's Opera Gallery. I might be wrong but I think that can fetch a hefty sum if that came from the same artist.
 

suited

Distinguished Member
Joined
Aug 18, 2008
Messages
7,642
Reaction score
3,562
Originally Posted by bbaquiran
I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure #5 is by a Filipino artist.

That would make sense because my uncle lived in the Philippines most of his life.
 

suited

Distinguished Member
Joined
Aug 18, 2008
Messages
7,642
Reaction score
3,562
It looks like one of the artists, Kid Kosolawat, sells for around $6,000-10,000.
 

Pink22m

Senior Member
Joined
Mar 15, 2003
Messages
769
Reaction score
0
Does the top work have a title? I'd call it Embrace. It is my favorite of the batch.
 

Tarmac

Distinguished Member
Joined
Mar 19, 2006
Messages
7,134
Reaction score
39
I have no idea of value but I like the one with the fish on the table.

The landscape ones look a bit like starving artist or art school paintings. I have no idea though.
 

Featured Sponsor

How important is full vs half canvas to you for heavier sport jackets?

  • Definitely full canvas only

    Votes: 91 37.6%
  • Half canvas is fine

    Votes: 90 37.2%
  • Really don't care

    Votes: 25 10.3%
  • Depends on fabric

    Votes: 40 16.5%
  • Depends on price

    Votes: 38 15.7%

Forum statistics

Threads
506,844
Messages
10,592,238
Members
224,323
Latest member
dipmalikaok
Top