delivery twice

About a week ago I blogged that I bought a painting from Irina Babiouk. This painting was delivered this Thursday by courier. Happily I unpacked it. For the major part it was as I expected.
However I saw one minute black streak of paint. Really minute, but it was an eye catcher and distracted me from the essence of the painting itself. No sulking for me however I sent an e-mail to Irina and explained the problem. A day later she offered to correct the painting and yesterday she did. So within two days the problem was over. Below you see twice the painting. One time with and one time without the black streak.

After sales

I have said earlier on this blog that most artists don't think commercially. So if anything happens that contradicts this believe I blog it.

Like I said earlier I bought 4 works from Boukje Janssen. I tried to hang one of them on my wall. But I missed the means to hang it from.
I had seen it hanging in Rotterdam and I saw no traces that anything was removed from the back. So I wrote an e-mail. Which said in short "Help I'm confused." Boukje replied that black pins had kept it in place and she offered to send some.

Below you see the intermediate results.

Nice feature. These same pins are also in the piece of art I want to hang on my wall. However in this case some are pointing out... Ouch!


PS I added Lilith and Liesje Reyskens to my watch list and removed Hellen van Meene like I feared I would.

Spring is in the air

There are three kind of artists. One kind is bad in marketing the second kind is even worse.

I once sent a message to an artist and her gallery that I was interested in purchasing her work. The gallery answered my e-mail late but within a few days. The artist answered just after a month by asking if her gallery had allready answered my query. I bought two of her pictures I get stll invites from the Gallery, but never heard of the artist again.

Most Artists I buy work from are without gallery. So you would expect they would try to contact me once in a while. Some of them now contact me when the're having an exposition like Matijs van de Kerkhof.

Last Friday I received an exception.
Marleen van de Heuvel sent me this Spring-card.
Why? I don't know, I don't care. It might have been marketing, it might have been an art project, it might have been a spontaneous act. I liked it.


What happened is that I answered her card and so next time I see her the chance of ignoring her booth will be much less likely.


The hint I got from Marleen was to go to the Spring is in the air market in Amsterdam. I reckon she will be there too.

I own seven works of art from her:
But I post her Spring wish:

"Het is lente, geniet ervan." meaning "It's Spring, Enjoy.

The lesson learned for collectors is: artists make art. Marketing or sales are unknown territories to them. Don't expect them to call you, call or e-mail them!


I said there are 3 kinds of artists, I mentioned two kinds. The 3rd kind is Damien Hirst.