Beware The Overpriced Artist

The Daily Beast:

Contemporary artists are more "collectible" than old masters: there's more of their art out there, you can party with them, you can even hope to discover geniuses before they get "hot." One downside is that, because the competition's so stiff, prices can lose all touch with reality. That's especially true since the majority of today's most collected art stars are bound to fade into oblivion. (Art history has always done brutal triage.) Here are five highly touted artists whose works won't all survive as great art and will therefore turn out to be lousy investments.

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Comments

[middleoftheroad]

11:50 AM on 01/06/2012

I'm just throwing it out there...with Hirst for example, he may have large number of pieces out there, but as an important artist (as even this article admits), at some point he will be dead (like Warhol)... why wouldn't someone want a Hirst 10 years after his passing?

[Violinhunter]

01:45 AM on 01/06/2012

I am NOT a contributor to this problem - my art work is very cheap.

[chrysostomos]

12:40 PM on 01/05/2012

This list seems about right.