January Sale - 10% off everything

Get 10% off ANYTHING in store at the Where4ArtThou store.

Enter discount code JS10 in the discount code box at the bottom of the products page (to the left of the ORDER button) and 10% will automatically be taken off before checkout.

We'd like to take this opportunity to wish all our customers and visitors all the best for 2010

Bob Barker originals - invest now

Is the recession in recession? Why not choose now to invest in an original Bob Barker painting - we have plenty to choose from, including some early originals before he signed up to Washington Green. Take a look at our current stock here. Don't forget all items have free delivery.

Peter Smith - many older prints still in stock

As we start the run up to Christmas, it's time to start thinking about gifts for loved ones, and Peter Smith has always been a favourite in this respect, but also for Valentines, Wedding gifts - and some people even buy for themselves!!

Take a look at our Peter Smith stock items here

The Stroll

Painting on paper.
Signed unframed work.
Year - 2008
Size - 20cm x 30cm

Written By: Waterolour Paintings

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New items available for sale

Were pleased to provide some new items for sale as follows. Interested parties who wish to purchase, make an offer or simply to know more should contact us via the links to the right. Insured postage for these items is £20 for framed items, otherwise £10.

Alexander Millar - Leap Frog - Print only - £65



Alexander Millar - Rogue traders - Mounted - £270



Szikora - Who's The Daddy - Mounted - £550



Szikora - Stripteaser - Print only - £200

Szikora - home early - Print only - £200


Szikora - Massage - Print only - £200


Szikora - Bunker Chunker - Mounted - £150


Szikora - Two o'clock Temptation - Sculpture - £150


Szikora - Two o'clock Temptation - Mounted - £150


Doug Hyde - The Man Behind The Smile - Book + 2 prints - £350 each

Peter Smith - Thank You - Framed + Remarqued - £950

Alexander Millar - Original Gadhy Man sktech by - Framed - £1200

Gary Walton - Original - watercolour/oil 'The Old Steamer' - Framed - £1300

New availability including Dani Bergson originals

We're very pleased to be able to make available to our customers, the following selection of originals, prints, and box canvases

If you have any interest in any of the items below or wish to know more details please contact us now.


Dani Bergson - Saphirra - Framed Original - £1259

Dani Bergson - Clementine - Framed Original - £1259

Gloria Marojevic - Heat I - Framed - £139

Gloria Marojevic - Heat II - Framed - £139

Paul Horton - World of Imagination - Framed Board 3/250 - £689

Paul Horton - In My Life Porfolio - Boxed - £479

Paul Horton - In My Life (I Love You More) - Framed Canvas - £729

Peter Smith - A Fool's Moon - Framed - £579

Peter Smith - So It's Not Fancy Dress? - Framed - £839

All prices above exclude delivery, and have CoA (except the originals).

If you have any interest in any of the items above or wish to know more details please contact us now.

Jane Austen and Clive James

Not typically two names that would come together other than to say Clive James writes nothing like Jane austen. However, when the allegedly only existing painting allegedly of Jane Austen was allegedly put up for sale at Christies yesterday, then allegedly it seems no-one was very interested in buying it (BBC).

Maybe that's because no-one's quite 100% sure of it's provenance. The debate continues, but the fact is it was up for sale in the US because no-one wanted to commit to the purchase in the UK when it was up for sale here. It seems US buyers weren't convinced either.

But Allegedly Clive James came into the debate (reported on NPR) saying that the girl depicted was too 'hot' to be Jane Austen, otherwise her books would have been entirely different. Now I don't want to judge the alleged validity of the painting, but I do object to someone judging a book by it's cover, or in this case a book by the picture of it's author. We recently had the issue of a publisher changing the cover (BBC again ) of a new Jane Austen biography because the one planned for use on the cover wasn't pretty enough [to sell enough books I take it], but Clive James' comment sounds to me just a little bit dumb. I suggest that the picture on the right below simply can't be Clive James because someone looking like that surely couldn't communicate so well or write books as witty as the real Clive James. Touché.

  

Price smash on Peter Smith Thank You 'Deluxe'

We're doing some huge price smashes on some items over the next few weeks. We'll be dropping the price on a particular item, and when that's gone, well do it on another item until that ones gone too, and we'll carry on doing it until we're all out of offers! So don't forget to keep popping back to check out the latest offer-du-jour.

To get the ball rolling, we're dropping an amazing £200 off the price of Peter Smith's sought after 'Thank You - deluxe version', of which we have two - now at just £499 each including UK delivery.

   

One Love

Something of a coup: we've managed to get hold of Edition number 1 of Caroline Shotton's latest box canvas release - Love is in the air. Priced at £550 this is a chance to own a popular piece in an extremely rare edition number - we've never seen a number 1 edition released by Washington Green in the UK before so we're very pleased to be able to offer this for sale in the Caroline Shotton section of the Where4ArtThou store.

Merry Xmas

December the 25th and... MERRY CHRISTMAS to all our visitors, past, present and future! We hope 2007 brings everything you would like from it!

Best Wishes from Where4ArtThou.

Just in and available now - in store is Edition number 2 of both of Paul Corfields fantastic new relaeses 'Home before Sunset' and 'Shades of Autumn', both at £245 for these ultra low edition numbers

Paul Corfield seems to be taking on touch of Paul Hortons successful styling - take a look at the coloured houses - it's more than a nod and a wink to Paul Horton, and it'll be interesting to see what comes out next from Corfield, but his work seems to be selling exceptionally well and we think Corfield is one to watch.

Peter Smith Pile High Club and Romper Room now available

The new Peter Smith stock are now in store for immediate purchase at £345 each for edition mumbers 2 and 3.

   

Latest Peter Smith prints

We're very pleased to announce some new Peter Smith stock about to be added to the store. From a limited edition run of 295 we have edition numbers 2 and 3 of Peter's newest works: Pile High Club and Romper Room. Prices as below

If you wish to reserve any of these prints before we get them online, please contact us.

Peter Smith: Pile High Club #2 or 3 £345

Peter Smith: Romper Room #2 or 3 £345

Where4ArtThou - Finding Service

Here at Where4ArtThou, we have made it even easier for you to request us to find a sold out, or hard-to-find print, but we have also expanded this very successful service so as to try and locate an item at the lowest price we can find. You may have located your print, but are you happy that you are not paying over the odds? We have saved customers over 30% on the price they were prepared to pay elsewhere. We provide a Gold and a Silver finding service, and with a no-obligation initial request, what have you got to lose! - find out more and give us a go.

The New York Times reports that a Jackson Pollock has sold for about $140,000,000 which makes it the most expensive painting ever sold, but just one thing bothers me about Pollock...

I mean...take a look at the picture. $140 million!!?? I just don't get it! There simply has to be more worthy things to do with your money than spend a 9 figure sum on a bit of 8 by 4 MDF that someones had an accident in the paint cupboard with!

Great New Stock with big discounts

We're pleased to say that we've just got in new stock of Sarah Jane Szikora and Paul Horton prints. Some of these are the lower edition size US prints, and some UK prints as well, including just one copy of Pauls's extremely sought after piece: 'The special Gift'.



Discounts apply to many of these pieces and are up to 25%, while stocks last.

We also have a few new copies of Szikora's sought after 'Taking the Biscuit' which directly follows on from the highly prized 'Foolish Little Biscuit' for which we've seen prices of £1000 to £2000. We're not sure if Taking the Biscuit has the same potential, but prices have been seen pushing £800 recently for this canvas edition.

Welcome to Sunday Telegraph readers

A warm welcome to all Sunday Telegraph Readers. If you're visiting us after spotting our ad in the Seven magazine with the Sunday Telegraph from 22nd October, then we're delighted to offer you an extra 10% off all prices in our online store.. Just note the code shown in the ad, and when you go to the products page, enter that code in the discount code box at the bottom of the page before clicking on the 'ORDER' button, and 10% will be taken off the total price. We hope you'll find something of interest and that you'll enjoying having a look around.

The American Dream - gashed

So imagine you're at the top of the pile - you've made your fortune, you've got some nice pictures on the walls of your pad - you know the sort of thing - a few Cézannes, Renoirs, Picassos, etc. You've built a 59 story hotel and casino and named it after your favourite painting, (lets say it's a Picasso, Le Reve maybe) but you've been offered a tidy sum - I don't know, let's say $139,000,000 - and it's the worlds largest sum ever paid for a painting. So you have a few friends round to say goodbye to the painting and you're enthusing and gesticulating about what a great painting this is when suddenly Rrriiiiippp - you've just stuck your elbow through the painting. Gutted? I should say - and then some! Well, unbelievably, this is exactly what happened to Steve Wynn (as reported here by the BBC).

Well, the deals off, of course, and that's a $90,000,000 profit down the drain - not to mention the extra $3.99 for the masking tape to stick it back together again, although actually - looking at the painting it looks like the woman in the picture (Picasso's mistress, Thérèse Walter) may have covered up the gash herself to avoid embarrasment!


Picasso's Le Reve (The Dream) - damaged goods

Superb Govinder number sets of 3 canvas on board

We have in store Govinder Nazran's sold out set of 3 hand embellished canvas on board prints: I need you, I love you and I need your love. For a limited time we are offering a same number set of these three sought after unmounted boards at 20% off the RRP.

  

Paul Horton - Magic of the Cup

We have in store two copies of Paul Hortons sought after Magic of the Cup which sadly have damaged tips to a couple of the corners. The damage would probably be covered up by a suitable frame or in fact the whole mount could be trimmed by half an inch all the way round without affecting the print itself, or the overall appearance. For this reason we've dropped the price by a huge 30% off the RRP, making them just £299 each

Buying a masterpiece - not a masterstroke

The Guardian reports on whether buying a masterpiece is actually a great investment. The verdict seems to be that, well - ok an investment in a great work of art might be fractionally better than bonds, but it's not going to be a whole heap better than US and UK equities in general and in fact, if you take into account buying and selling costs, insurance, storage etc, then you're unlikely to see any return for your money unless you pick something outstanding.

What do I mean by outstanding? Well, as Slate reports in more detail, Ronald S. Lauder thought Gustav Klimt's 1907 society portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I (below) was pretty outstanding because he shelled out 135 million dollars for it!

Now, last time I dug around to see how much I had to spend on a good investment piece, I didn't quite have $135m in my wallet - and I did check thoroughly between the dog eared tesco receipts and the half dozen or so partially completed Cafe Nero loyalty cards.

If I did find a little money there, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't go for a masterpiece. For one thing I can't think of many contemporary masterpieces, because it's contemporary art that most people want these days - something that looks good for the modern living environment. I can't begin to imagine a tired old Constable (painting that is, not your local bobby) sitting square in the middle of your living room wall with your pale beech wooden floors, hint of mocca corner sofa and carbon fibre 42 inch plasma TV.

So - if you're looking to invest in art, forget a masterpiece; take a look round our store and pick an item that suits your living environment, your budget, and your taste, and who knows - you might get a better return on your money than poor old Mr Lauder will.

Three LS Lowry paintings stolen in raid

The BBC reports that three paintings by LS Lowry (including Two Women and Children, below) were amongst 15 paintings stolen from the Clark Art Gallery in Hale (Gtr Manchester) yesterday morning.

I'm not sure we classify very highly up there in the ranks of known fine art dealers that the new owners might wish to approach us, but we're always happy to list third party owned art on this website, so if anyone has these pictures then do please get in contact with us - not least because we'd quite like the £25,000 reward for the safe return of the paintings - oh and the small matter of capturing the gang that stole them.

To Bill Clark whose gallery had only been open for a week - my commiserations.

To the stolen paintings - I say Where 4 Art Thou?

Gift Certificates now available

With Christmas gift ideas needed soon, we have now introduced Where4ArtThou Gift Certificates which can be sent at any time of year by email to friends, family, staff or anyone you feel would love to receive a gift of art of their own choice. Values range from £25 to £500.

Read more about them here or purchase from the Where4ArtThou online store.

Caroline Shotton is Over the Moon

Where4ArtThou is pleased to make available for purchase (individual or as a set), a complete set of Caroline Shottons "Over the Moon" release of seven hand embellished and varnished box canvases in the low low edition number of 3 / 95

  
  

To purchase, just vist Caroline's section in our Where4ArtThou store

Regards
Roger

Fancy yourself as an artist?

The Riverhouse Barn in Walton-on-Thames is hosting a competition to create a design in any medium to be made into a textile panel 240cm x 120cm, on the theme of "Community". Deadline for submissions is 27th October. The work will be exhibited at the Robert Phillips Gallery from 15th November to 3rd December and there are cash prizes. Log on to www.riverhousebarn.co.uk to find out more.

Keith Taylor - Cambridge Photographer

We're pleased to announce that we are now listing Photographic art and our first photographer on board is part of what will be a growing portfolio of artists (painters and photographers) in the local Cambridge area. See more of Keiths work in store.