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How's this for a first - well for me anyway. I received an email from someone yesterday saying she had just acquired one of my watercolours which she was as pleased as punch with. She said it was so well painted, fresh and a great subject and she wanted to know a bit more about it. After forwarding me a photo I was able to advise that it was painted some years ago and was a bit of an amalgamation of images with a barn in Kent, rolling South down hills, and enhanced with an additional farm building which I took from a photo of some derelict buildings next to the Hospital where I was based and which have since been demolished to make way for a housing estate. And then she told me where she bought it - a charity shop in Birstall.
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Nothing you can do about it - where our paintings end up is not in our control, and there's no point getting bothered by it. Maybe the previous purchaser died, and the relatives gave it away. Maybe s/he got tired of it (horrible thought, but it happens).... at least it's in an appreciative home now.
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I recently bought an absolutely gorgeous drawing of an elephant from a charity shop for £15....came home and googled the artist to discover that her drawings were going for over £300, so I was chuffed to bits!! Not sure whether artists majeur applies with regard to charity shops, but I imagine your buyer was chuffed to bits as well. Sadly its the luck of the draw, like Robert says. Things get passed on for all sorts of reasons, but at least yours has been re-sellable, which is fab.
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On a similar theme one of the first paintings I ever sold (some years ago now) was at a local exhibition. When I said to the purchaser that I hope she gets much pleasure from it she replied that she would - she always bought pictures with telephone boxes in them. By the way - just like poor Alierainy123 above, I'm just relaying the event - nothing to do with an over-inflated ego.