So I've seen you shits throw around numbers from 30k to 70k for these atrociously ugly paintings (no offense, rekieta), so I tried looking online for any auction records of this eric waught guy.
Because you assholes couldn't just fucking link a source to these price claims I've now wasted like 2 hours of my life looking shit up about this faggot and reading through retarded articles.
Here's some fun facts about this eric waught character:
- he does NFT art, which would lead you to think that he'd have some internet presence
- his biggest social media is facebook with a solid following of under 4000
- he does not have a Wikipedia entry
- his website ericwaugh.com says he's "one of the world's most popular and collected artists"
- when you google how old he is, the results say hes born in 1929 and 1963
Do call me out if I'm wrong but....I'm pretty sure this guy is just a complete nobody?
His only claim to fame seems to be that the guinness book of world records credited him with having the largest painting in the world in 2001... but he lost that title years ago.... and even back then it was only kinda true on a technicality.
His website has an articles section that proudly proclaims "Waugh is featured in 17 pages of Forbes" and then a pdf to a forbes 30 under 30 from 2017 which really made me think he's legit. But then I actually clicked on it and noticed that, yes, he was indeed featured in the Forbes 30 under 30, but not in the actual list... he's just kinda on a cover page... Forbes described him as 'one of the world's most famous "live" painters' (no idea what a live painter is) - what a disingenuous fucking prick; bragging about being features it Forbes and linking a 30 under 30 would obviously lead people to believe that he's actually ON the list and not just fucking featured on the cover.
I also found out why i couldn't find any auction records from one of his instagram captions:
"HOW TO BID: Simply send me a private message with the amount you would like to bid. If you get outbid, I will notify you. It's that simple!"
Admittedly I don't know much about auctions but what the fuck is that? Is that normal?? He could just lie and up the price, no one has any way to confirm if some other person sent him a Direct Message with a higher bid - he could straight up just lie and say "someone outbid you" until a person stops bidding and then later say "The person who outbid you doesn't want to pay, since you're the second highest bid I'll let you buy the piece at your bidding price

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the only auctions I could find credited to an Eric Waught is invaluable.com/artist/waugh-eric-t0u8cqe0dl/sold-at-auction-prices/ with some paintings going for a whopping estimate of $100 to $1000 or even $0 to $0. truly, one of the world's most popular and collected artists. These are also all from 1930 to 1965 so it's probably another artist with the same name or something.
Can someone please look shit up about this guy? I refuse to believe that Nick paid more than 50 cents for one of this retard's paintings.