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The Art of Selling Art

October 10, 2022 By pete

Sold! For $1700!

Wallace Wyss reports on finding a market for his road art…and how you can, too!

In the beginning…way back in the 60s… I started out in college as an art major. But I barely got started when some hotshots from an ad agency showed up and said “We need summer interns.” I raised my hand for artist but wouldn’t you know they said “That’s filled,” so I raised my hand again as copywriter and was chosen.

I followed up after graduation as a copywriter on the Oldsmobile account where I worked with the late VeloceToday contributor Eric Davison, but then segued to a more exciting job as a copywriter on the Chevrolet account. There I became the go-to guy for high performance. That led to a job at Car Life, then Motor Trend and 50 years of free lancing interspersed by a few books including three on Shelby, one of which became a best seller (50,000 copies).

But then the digital revolution came along. Everybody with a phone became a photographer. Everybody with access to the net could research and write. No editors, magazines, or for that fact, money was involved anymore. Just do a blog. [Read more…] about The Art of Selling Art

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Online Car Auctions in the Age of Covid-19

July 14, 2020 By pete

This Ferrari 288 GTO s/n 55223 is the answer to a crucial online auction question: Can $1 million cars sell online? Not only is the answer “yes” with a final price of $2.3 million, but it is one of two seven-figure cars sold in RM Sotheby’s second Online Only auction, Driving into Summer. The other was a Ferrari Enzo that brought $2.6 million a few lots later. Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s.

By Rick Carey

Other than home repairs, yard work, baking and Netflix binging, much of life has gone remote and online.

That’s true for collector car auctions, too

We’ve now seen enough online only auctions to reach some conclusions, the most important of them being: online only collector car auctions are a commercial success, if lacking in the excitement generated by their live counterparts.

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