Is the French painting worth £ 50?
 

I travel in France and I see paintings in here need £ 50. Is it too expensive?

You can buy a painting in France for 5 euros or 5 million. No one but you can decide what's too expensive. If you like it and it's worth it to you buy it. There is no measure of " too expensive."

Is a dinner worth £50?
Is a jacket worth £50?
Is a theater ticket worth £50?
Is a leather purse worth £50?
Is a train ticket worth £50?
Is a suitcase or piece of luggage worth £50?

well -- they don't use £ in France

possible troll . . . Her other thread is also a little <i>odd.

True. I used £ because the OP did, so I figured she was thinking in £. Her posts are odd. I thought from the poor use of English that English is not her/his first language,

possible troll . . . Her other thread is also a little odd.>>

Your posts are often a little odd, also, why don't you stop calling people names all the time when you want to make fun of them? try banning the word "troll" from your posts for a starter.

If she "needs 50 GBP", she's looking in the wrong forum.

It would also help to see the painting...

If you can get a Maurice Denis for that go for it!!!

I'm sorry English is not my first language. I just travel in France. I want to take some souvenir back and I do not want to be cheated.

Hi Twist,
To start, you must mean euro, not pounds, if you are in France. So think in euro.

I listed all of the examples above to make you think about other things you might buy and how you looked at their value. If it was a leather bag for 50 euro and you really liked it and decided to buy it, you would not even think about being cheated. Unless they lied and it was not leather, you would be happy.

Frankly, 50 euro is not much money for an actual painting. You will not be getting a masterpiece! You probably do want to know if it is simply a colored print, an oil, watercolor, etc. However, if it is really basically a souvenir, the real question is do you like it? Would you be proud to hang it on your wall? Would you enjoy it? Would it remind you of a happy visit to France?

Nobody here can tell you if the painting is good or not without seeing it. Even then, it is all relative. If I want to buy art, I usually go to an art show or gallery. You are buying a souvenir. I went to Paris with friends a few years ago. They bought an oil painting of a street scene from an artist. They paid about 200 euro. Would I have bought it? No, not at any price. Did I think it was really interesting or fine art? No. Did I think it was worth everything they paid? Yes, absolutely - for them. It is pretty and technically nicely painted. Most of all, they love it, have it prominently displayed in their home and every time they pass it, they remember their happy time in Paris.

It you love it, you will not be cheated. If you do not love it, then do not buy it.

Sassafras- well said!

Twist- just translate cost of the painting in Euros to your own money. Would you spend that on a painting at home? Would that painting be considered "art" at home?

An amateur painting here would start in the several hundreds range, probably $1000+. A giclee print would be low to mid hundreds. A normal print would be in the range you're talking about. So, either the artist had no idea what his painting was worth (unlikely) or you bought the equivalent of carnival caricature (tourist junk). At that point it doesn't matter what you spend, just as long as you like the picture enough to spend the money.

Christina, if I could "like" a post, I would "like" yours.

If you are thinking of buying something in Montmartre, I would give it a pass for 50 GBP...

Christina,

((Y))

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For souvenirs perhaps a nice scarf.

For 50 euros you will not be getting anything special, UNLESS it is special to you .

My mom bought a painting in Montmartre about 50 years ago.. it is ugly to me, and its worth nothing, but its in my closet as my mother liked it and when she died 10 years ago my sisters and I could not bear to throw it out .. and I lost the draw (meaning I was chosen to keep it )
I see the same versions of this painting every time I go to paris.. its just something the "artists" crank out for tourists.

I'd say it's worth no more than 345 Rand.