To the artists: What's the highest price you've been able to put on a work of art and end up managing to sell it to someone? (lemmy.ml)

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I know artists often make art to try to get by, but you have to admit how high the prices would sound to outsiders, which is why I see people arguing over art pricing ethics all the time.

The arguments against pricey art: It is offensive to societal necessities to price art higher than that, and there comes a point in an art's price where it doesn't make sense to raise the price more based on what relative little went into making it.

The arguments in favor of pricey art: They help the artist and it's up to the person buying the art how much they're willing to pay.

Based on the arguments in favor of pricey art, what's the highest you've ever priced art (both with haggling intended/involved and without haggling intended/involved) and were able to sell it for that amount?

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I got paid over $1k to perform at a 3 day festival (9x10min total)

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Local or did you need to travel? Even though you were "only" performing for say ~30 minutes/day were you able to do any other work those days?

This does seem like a good hourly rate, but if you had to travel there and back, and couldn't do other things for $$ in your free time, the deal doesn't become as good sounding.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was already in the area on vacation :) We booked the hotel and planned the trip before I got the gig, the stars just happened line up. The other people in my troupe were friends so it was a lotta fun.

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Very cool, glad to hear it worked out so well!

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