Lance's Aspen mansion on the market for $14.5 million

[dsimon]

Back to the original Lance selling house any thoughts on why is he broke. empty Nester down sizing???

[MattTuck]

Originally Posted by tomato coupe

Thanks for the generous offer, but my wife spent $24k on a painting last week, so probably won’t buy anything in the immediate future.

I'm curious what $24K buys these days. Is that a lot for a painting? I honestly have no idea.

[MattTuck]

Originally Posted by dsimon

Back to the original Lance selling house any thoughts on why is he broke. empty Nester down sizing???

I heard a rumor he is going to play for the cowboys

No seriously, he's probably just moving on to other things. Isn't he a big time owner in Uber? I'd think if anything, maybe he's getting a bigger house!

That is, if he likes Aspen. He mentioned in that video that he isn't really a fan of winter. Which kind of defeats living in Aspen.

[tomato coupe]

Originally Posted by MattTuck

I'm curious what $24K buys these days. Is that a lot for a painting? I honestly have no idea.

That was for a pretty large (6' x 7') oil painting by a fairly well-known artist.

Prices for paintings span a much bigger range than bikes (or even cars), so it's hard to compare them. I think the highest purchase price for a painting is $450M, so prices span about 6 orders of magnitude!

[Ozz]

Originally Posted by dsimon

Back to the original Lance selling house any thoughts on why is he broke. empty Nester down sizing???

Maybe he wants to cash out his equity appreciation before the next downturn?

Who implied he was broke?

In the AD video he mentions how great Austin is....maybe he wants to spend more time there?

[tomato coupe]

Originally Posted by MattTuck

He mentioned in that video that he isn't really a fan of winter. Which kind of defeats living in Aspen.

Aspen is incredible in the summer. Great biking there ...

[pdmtong]

Originally Posted by MattTuck

I'm curious what $24K buys these days. Is that a lot for a painting? I honestly have no idea.

Originally Posted by tomato coupe

That was for a pretty large (6' x 7') oil painting by a fairly well-known artist.

Prices for paintings span a much bigger range than bikes (or even cars), so it's hard to compare them. I think the highest purchase price for a painting is $450M, so prices span about 6 orders of magnitude!

One thing for sure about art..the price only matters ot the buyer and the buyer's budget. There have been a number of times in my life where if I had just a bit more spare cash I would have indulged myself. no one else I am sure would believe I paid that much for that thing.

two that i wish I had a do over...
1) a 2'x3' poster size marvel / fantastic four page from an early book inked and signed by jack kirby. that $25 when I was a kid might as well be $250,000 now. this was the board that the color would be added to then the book printed...

2) a tiny 2 x 2 drawing by Michelangelo selling at Harrod's for $500.

I don't know what $24k buys nowadays...but I'm sure that is a modest number in many galleries in Carmel, San Francisco, etc. it doesn't matter. if you look at that piece and are happy...

are you the beholder?

[ERK55]

re art collecting
money can’t buy taste
some people have their taste in their rectum

[cash05458]

Originally Posted by dsimon

Back to the original Lance selling house any thoughts on why is he broke. empty Nester down sizing???

seriously? do you pay attention at all to anything being discussed?

[tomato coupe]

Originally Posted by ERK55

re art collecting
money can’t buy taste
some people have their taste in their rectum

Art is very subjective. The person whose taste you question may see things you don't see.

[dsimon]

Originally Posted by cash05458

seriously? do you pay attention at all to anything being discussed?

nope maybe im having a senior moment school me

[MattTuck]

Originally Posted by tomato coupe

Aspen is incredible in the summer. Great biking there ...

No doubt. But there are many places that a person who doesn't like the winter might prefer over Aspen.


On the art subject, that sounds like something you'd have to both know a lot about and find a piece you really liked. I paid just a little bit more than that for my last car!

The one piece of original art I considered buying was a pacific northwest native carved paddle. It was $1200 or so. I still think it is a unique and attractive medium. Similar to this.



Usually, I buy a print and then curse the cost of a frame. If you're buying high end art, the cost of the frame is probably in the noise.

[FlashUNC]

I'll be the first to bag on Lance for any number of things, but art is entirely subjective. Guy could have a house full of Thomas Kincades, but man as long as they speak to him, that's all that matters.

[FlashUNC]

Originally Posted by pdmtong

One thing for sure about art..the price only matters ot the buyer and the buyer's budget. There have been a number of times in my life where if I had just a bit more spare cash I would have indulged myself. no one else I am sure would believe I paid that much for that thing.

two that i wish I had a do over...
1) a 2'x3' poster size marvel / fantastic four page from an early book inked and signed by jack kirby. that $25 when I was a kid might as well be $250,000 now. this was the board that the color would be added to then the book printed...

2) a tiny 2 x 2 drawing by Michelangelo selling at Harrod's for $500.

I don't know what $24k buys nowadays...but I'm sure that is a modest number in many galleries in Carmel, San Francisco, etc. it doesnt matter. if you look at that piece and are happy...

Twice-up Kirby pencils and inks from early Fantastic Four are absurdly pricey these days. Most of the great stuff hasn't come out of collections for decades and theres stuff that's never been verified even exists. Marvel had a habit of destroying the inked pages cuz they were just part of the production process, not art.

Yeah...I'd kick myself over that one too. Even panel pages without any of the heroes are hard into 5 figures these days.

[fiamme red]

At the risk of being branded a philistine, I don't get Banksy's "Paranoid Pictures" at all. (Yes, I know that it's a parody of the Paramount logo.) If it wasn't by Banksy, no one would want this silly thing.