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Verdult artwork - Moving beyond a hope and a prayer.

Verdult artwork - Moving beyond a hope and a prayer.

As we stressed in our post on "William Joseph Verdult - Where's My $5 million?" we are moving beyond just a hope and a prayer in valuing Verdult artwork.

More and more you see Verdult art work and summary of the artist showing up in the data bases of major websites responsible for tracking major listed artist around the world.

In February of last year, we completed a major initiative to get William Joseph Verdult listed on artprice.com which list major artist around the world. In addition to supplying extensive background information on Verdult including the Official bio and Verdult Scrapbook, we provided several hundred background documents not previously released to the public.

Last year in addition to releasing a number of press releases on Verdult artwork to keep the Verdult name in the public's eye, we were also successful in getting William Joseph Verdult listed on Askart.com.

This year are completing arrangements to get William Joseph Verdult listed both here in the United States and in Europe on perhaps the largest on-line organization responsible for tracking Verdult artwork. Not only will this organization include William Joseph Verdult as a listed artist; prices of William Joseph Verdult artwork will be included in the data base as well.

What is the real price of Verdult artwork?

What is the real price of Verdult artwork?

First, let me explain how we initially got into the art business and then I’ll get back to the true price of a piece of William Joseph Verdult artwork.

In 2003 in establishing a public company in a totally separate industry – child care to be exact, we were approached by a gentleman by the name of Dave. Dave was interested in owning some shares of a new public upstart in exchange for some art – some William Joseph Verdult artwork.

At the time, though I did not know much about Verdult artwork, it seemed like a good idea to exchange some stock for art to develop the corporation. The initial intent was to either hold on to the artwork, or sale it to increase the corporation’s asset base.

In looking back, as they say, hind sight is always 20…20, there were two major problems with this approach.

Sacrifice by William Joseph Verdult

TITLE: 
Sacrifice

ARTIST: 
William Verdult

WORK DATE: 
1999

MATERIALS: 
oil on artist paper

MARKINGS: 
Signed "William Verdult", lower left

SIZE: 
h: 28 x w: 22 in / h: 71.1 x w: 55.9 cm

STYLE: 
Contemporary

CASH PRICE*: 
$55,000 – 65,000 

GALLERY: 
Verdult Gallery

ONLINE CATALOGUE(S):  Artnet.com

*(Not Barter or exchange)

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Verdult’s Highest Price Selling Lithographs

Over the past two years the highest priced selling limited edition lithographs created by William Joseph Verdult follows:

See the Top Selling Lithographs for William Verdult

Dangerous Path by William Joseph Verdult records cash sale of $21,499.00.

Dangerous Path by William Joseph Verdult records cash sale of $21,499.00.

Name: Dangerous Path
Artist: William Joseph Verdult
Size: 22 x 28 inches
Medium: oil on aritst paper
Approximate date created: 1999-2000

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Yazzy's at williamverdult.com Offers Tow The Market Below Market Value

As a special offer - with the introduction of the new web site and store, Yazzy's at www.williamverdult.com, is offering the Best Buy First Come First Serve Deal .

A painting like Tow the mark appraises in the range of $40,000 to $50,000. For a limited time, one person will be able to acquire a superb piece of art; far below market value.

This item will be available from September 4 thru September 9, 2007.

At the price and the quality of the art, this item will not last long.

Welcome to Yazzy's at www.williamverdult.com.

For the next six days - the site will be available under Site Preview Conditions. 

Why Should You Own Verdult Art?

Here is our response to a recent email inquiry concerning owning Verdult art:

First let me say that we are not investment advisors and we do not purport to provide you with any sort of investment advice. That said, in the past year or so the value of Verdult paintings have increased two to three fold. This is the same trend in general with the overall art market.

We do not see this value decreasing anytime soon. We have been working with Verdult art work for four to five years and most reputable sites consider our company the experts in this artwork. Our intent is to get the paintings in places such as Christies and Sotheby’s so the true value of the art can be recognized.

We have done a number of things to achieve this goal including making sure that the prices are transparent and working with major art reporting sites such as artprice.com and artnet.com to ensure that Verdult paintings are well recognized and well received.

In addition to the normal appreciation and asset diversification strategies gained from owning art; there are tax advantages as well for those persons that want to participate in a tax donation program. So there are many ways to make money on your investment, it really depends upon your strategy and purpose for the investment.

In addition, please understand that the Certificate of Authenticity (COA) value is established by the artist and or company which can be much different from the actual market.

Most items that we market on Bid4assets return a certified appraised market value by an independent and highly qualified third party appraiser of anywhere between 5 and 12 times the value paid for the artwork.

Verdult - Art Appraised Value and Prices Increasing

From April through June 2007, the 'Average' appraised value of Verdult art sold on the open market increased by 28%. This increase is in line with art prices in the general art market which have seen record sales prices in the past two to three years.

The National institute of Appraisers reflects the increased value in its official appraisals of Verdult artwork.

In the month of June, three appraisals were conducted by the Institute for Verdult artwork having the following appraised market values.

$57,000.00	June 8 2007
$52,000.00	June 8 2007
$28,000.00	June 8 2007

Man is Water by William Joseph Verdult

Man is Water  by William Joseph Verdult

Name: Man is Water
Artist: William Joseph Verdult
Size: 22 x 28 inches
Medium: oil on aritst paper
Approximate date created: 1999-2000

Verdult's Valentine demanding Top Dollar

Verdult’s Valentine

For more results visit www.verdultgallery.com and www.Artnet.com

Artist

William Verdult

Title Valentine

Year 1998 -

Medium oil on paper

Size 28 x 22 in. / 71.1 x 55.9 cm.

Misc. Signed

Sale Of Verdult Gallery: Saturday, April 7, 2007
[Lot 67] Verdult