Insight into the hype of the "Collectable Art" Market
Much the same can apply to other items.
Buy what you like, not what others "value"
After Stint of Crime, Art Forger Sells Genuine Fakes:
"After many years as an art forger, both criminal and legitimate, John Myatt has a thing or two to say about the vagaries of the art market.
'Never was there such a load of rubbish talked about anything as has been, and will be, talked about art,' he said, sitting in his kitchen, Van Gogh's beautiful 'Harvest' (a fake, painted by him) on the wall behind him. 'The nonsense, really, is that paintings should be priced the way they are, that a Van Gogh can go for, what is it, $75 million? That's disgusting.'
Former art student, former musician, former impoverished single father, Mr. Myatt for seven years participated in what a Scotland Yard officer called at the time 'the biggest art fraud of the 20th century,' painting fake masterpieces that an accomplice passed off as authentic. But all he really wanted, he said, was a job he could do at home."
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