MTG Black Lotus original artwork for sale 6.5M
Well just read it for yourself.
Here is the post.
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I have for sale the absolute Pinnacle of collectibles that exist in Magic the Gathering. They've been in my bank vault collecting dust for far too long. Art needs to be admired and appreciated.
*I have many, many more that I'll be listing soon!
I've started selling them the last little bit. I traveled and searched around the globe to gather them. I only see an Alpha painting come up for sale every 2 or 3 years! Most people who own an MTG original Alpha Painting WILL NOT sell it. I offered over $1 million for the Underground Sea Painting by Rob Alexander and the seller wouldn't budge. (*It's one of my favorite paintings!)
****Also, if someone has the original Serra Angel or can direct me to its owner I'd happily pay $250,000 or more for the art and I'd pay $25,000 for anyone who makes the connection for me. It's my favorite painting in Magic the Gathering!
I just sold the Original Alpha Timewalk Painting by Amy Weber and the Alpha Mox Sapphire Painting by Dan Frazier for over $1 million USD. Counterspell sold for over $220,000 USD. *The video discussing the sales and values will be released soon on various influential channels adding provenance to all of the original Alpha paintings.
There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MORE RARE and unique than owning an actual piece of MTG history. There are many rare cards and even fewer 10/10's, but there can ONLY ever be One of One original painting from where EVERYTHING Began.
Here's a link of Daniel Chang and Brian Weissman talking about the a few of the paintings with them in the background. They bought them from me a few weeks back when they flew out to my home town in Salt Lake City, UT.
Alpha Black Lotus Original Painting by Christopher Rush -$6,500,000 USD
Alpha Mox Emerald Original Painting by Dan Frazier -$750,000 USD
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Talk about hyperbole. It's very, very cool and all, but lol. Anyway, these prices are quite crazy. Must be a lot of super rich and old school MTG players out there.
Either way the prices are quite something but the market for early originals is on fire. Farmstead is listed as sold at 85 and mix jet listed as sold at 750. Spicy.
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Quick Update:
Mox Jet: Pending
Farmstead: Pending
A lot of people have asked about why the values are determined as such and how I and others have come to the present valuations of the paintings.
1. Art, cards, anything is ONLY ever worth what someone or some group is willing to pay for it. I'v collected many hundreds of paintings over the years from Fantasy to Famous. If it's beautiful, well executed, and has a great story then it's exciting to me. Every painting in our homes has a unique story or experience behind. EVERY single one.
2. Some pieces of Art you only buy because you LOVE them, fully knowing they will never be worth anything more than your sentimental attachment. I've LOVED paintings only to meet the artist and find them to be a terrible person (This is rare, most artists are fascinating, kind, passionate people.) and so I don't buy the piece. Why would I want to look at something and have negative experiences and bad emotions attached to it every time I see it?
-On the other hand for Example: My little one made me a painting and drawing with strings on it and random shapes and learned how to write, "I love you Daddy." Legitimately if someone offered me billions, my own yacht, jet, etc for the painting..... It would be one of the easiest absolute "NO's" I would ever respond with in my life.
Art is about passion and LOVE and holding onto to that and passing it down from generation to generation. Some things money simply can't buy..... Hold onto those things, those are true possessions.
3. Art Investment by the numbers: The starting value for pretty much any Alpha art now is around $65-$100,000 depending on the piece. I know I've sold them.
Now that it's public that two pieces alone brought in over 1 million, the value of Alpha Art and it's rarity will continue to climb nearly forever.
As the art continually becomes more rare, the value goes up. Less people are willing to sell, the value goes up. The supply and demand ratios become so unbalanced that paintings will only ever appear when someone become desperate for money and is forced to sell.
I LOVE art! In the same breath, I'm a businessman and don't typically make unwise investments. Any Alpha art anyone can get their hands on will only go up in value over time. It's a nearly impossible for it not to happen.
*I turned down over a million offer for the Black Lotus a year ago. I turned down a 2.5+ million offer less than three months ago.
Here's the straight numbers: Let's say over 100 million people have played MTG over the last 25 years. Now take that 100 million and drop it down to only 10% of the people....leaving 10 million, now drop 10 million down by 10%....leaving 1 million, and again that by 10%....which leaves 100,000, and again by 10%.....leaving 10,000, and again by 10%....1,000, and again by 10%....leaving 100....and 10% one last time leaving 10 PEOPLE in the world out of 100,000,000 people that my want an original Alpha painting!
Now take that 10 People in the world that may want a painting and may/may not be able to afford it....and cut it by 75%....
In other words for the 100 million people that have played or love MTG, if only 1 person in the world wants a piece of that history, then it will be very, very difficult to acquire and may take years to find any piece, let alone a specific piece of art.
Numbers Continued:
There's a total of 306 Alph paintings. There's about 175+/- paintings accounted for. At any given time there's maybe 1 or 2 Original Alpha MTG paintings in circulation throughout the world over a 2-3 year period of time. (I KNOW BECAUSE NO ONE has spent more time and effort than me for the past 15 years trying to find this stuff...Hahaha.)
So in the last 2-3 years I've personally only seen 1-2 paintings across nearly every platform and connection I was aware of.
I personally know that an owner of one of the original lands in Europe has an Alpha Original Art Land hanging in his office at the top of the skyscraper he owns there! He literally could have a 50 million dollar painting and it wouldn't even affect his bank account! Of all the art in the WORLD HE CHOSE to hang an MTG Original above his desk. Now that's special.
I personally know of another younger fells that owns a painting. I knew they were having a bit of a hard time financially, so I offered a lot more than I normally would to see if it would help out.
He literally said, "I'd lose my home before selling my painting. I could find another home, but I will never see this painting again if I sell it."
He kindly thanked me for the offer and declined. I didn't press the issue a moment further, because I knew that that painting, which is personal to him will be a part of his family forever, is not about the money, but about the joy and wonderful memories it brought him in his life.
That my friends is the power of Art!
Def. interesting to hear about, again very surprised.
That said, art is one of those things that is people seem to purchase because they hope it will appreciate in value. Some (certainly not all by a long shot) MtG art has done that by insane amounts. I do wonder if there's a bubble? However, I feel the same about video game art. Heck, there really appear to be only a few people who seem to horde/purchase every single video game piece they can get their hands on. At least a few of those people are quite friendly, but some of them are... how to say, not the nicest and I personally believe they WAY overvalue what they have. Perhaps, this guy is doing the same thing here? All that said, the art for the Mox and Black Lotus are basically a part of "popular culture" so then again, who knows...
ps For those wondering, there are numerous, numerous, original MtG pieces that sell for $1000 or less. Certainly some for more, and as I said, the most expensive piece I know of was sold on Heritage Auctions for $72K (which seemed insane to me, but some people have big bucks and are investing in MtG art).
I've never been much into MTG but I follow a few weirdos on Youtube like creepy rudy, but that seems pretty incredible. Original Alphas are already stupid expensive enough, but original artwork for the most expensive and highly sought after Alpha? Completely bananas. I wonder how much it'll actually go for...I know a lot of MTG collectors have ridiculously deep pockets, but $6.5mil seems a tad high.
Hahaha I love creepy Rudy. He's like a combo of Seth Rogen and John C. Reilly
I do know that an original piece of MtG art sold for $72,000. That is the highest amount I have ever seen, and I have been following the MtG art scene for years. Just because someone is asking $6000 or $6 million does in no way mean he/she will ever get that price. Of course, one never knows, but I think this is a shot in the dark.
$6.5MM just seems insane.
Even the $2.5MM offer he supposedly received is considerably more than the famous Frazetta Conan painting sold for.
Blows my mind that they'd be willing to pay more for MtG card art than it would take to own the most valuable Frazetta.
I do know that an original piece of MtG art sold for $72,000. That is the highest amount I have ever seen, and I have been following the MtG art scene for years. Just because someone is asking $6000 or $6 million does in no way mean he/she will ever get that price. Of course, one never knows, but I think this is a shot in the dark.
$6.5MM just seems insane.
Even the $2.5MM offer he supposedly received is considerably more than the famous Frazetta Conan painting sold for.
Blows my mind that they'd be willing to pay more for MtG card art than it would take to own the most valuable Frazetta.
Not to mention tons of other famous artists works that wouldnt got for 10% of that. But hey if he is that confident to turn down 2.5, good luck to him.
I do know that an original piece of MtG art sold for $72,000. That is the highest amount I have ever seen, and I have been following the MtG art scene for years. Just because someone is asking $6000 or $6 million does in no way mean he/she will ever get that price. Of course, one never knows, but I think this is a shot in the dark.
I don't think it sells at 6M and I'm not certain that he did get a 2.5M offer. Who knows?
However, I do know that the Timewalk sale he mentions is real so it is possible.
I do know that an original piece of MtG art sold for $72,000. That is the highest amount I have ever seen, and I have been following the MtG art scene for years. Just because someone is asking $6000 or $6 million does in no way mean he/she will ever get that price. Of course, one never knows, but I think this is a shot in the dark.
I don't think it sells at 6M and I'm not certain that he did get a 2.5M offer. Who knows?
However, I do know that the Timewalk sale he mentions is real so it is possible.
Did he say how much he sold Timewalk for?
I do know that an original piece of MtG art sold for $72,000. That is the highest amount I have ever seen, and I have been following the MtG art scene for years. Just because someone is asking $6000 or $6 million does in no way mean he/she will ever get that price. Of course, one never knows, but I think this is a shot in the dark.
I don't think it sells at 6M and I'm not certain that he did get a 2.5M offer. Who knows?
However, I do know that the Timewalk sale he mentions is real so it is possible.
Did he say how much he sold Timewalk for?
"I just sold the Original Alpha Timewalk Painting by Amy Weber and the Alpha Mox Sapphire Painting by Dan Frazier for over $1 million USD."
At first I thought this was one sale of two items but these were 2 seperate sales.
I do know that an original piece of MtG art sold for $72,000. That is the highest amount I have ever seen, and I have been following the MtG art scene for years. Just because someone is asking $6000 or $6 million does in no way mean he/she will ever get that price. Of course, one never knows, but I think this is a shot in the dark.
I don't think it sells at 6M and I'm not certain that he did get a 2.5M offer. Who knows?
However, I do know that the Timewalk sale he mentions is real so it is possible.
Did he say how much he sold Timewalk for?
"I just sold the Original Alpha Timewalk Painting by Amy Weber and the Alpha Mox Sapphire Painting by Dan Frazier for over $1 million USD."
At first I thought this was one sale of two items but these were 2 seperate sales.
Over $1 million for both... WOW!! I mean, they're both iconic in the MtG universe. Still, that kind of price does surprise me. Well, I can still say that at least publically, the most expensive painting I can verify sold for $72,000 and I thought that was insane.