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What is the most amaunt of money you would pay for Mona Lisa painting considering your income?

i would give abaut two thousand dollars,if i feel very arty i would give 3 thousand dollars,keep in mind you cant sell it to other people,it will stay in your house,you are free to hang it to your wall
@Oportunist said in #1:
> keep in mind you cant sell it to other people
If you can, then I would gladly spend all my savings on it, considering that selling it back, I would get at least 1000 more money that I would have spent on it.

If I am not allowed to sell it back, then I wouldn't spend one penny on it. It's not that great a painting.
I would prefer to spend my fortune on Chagall, Dali, Picasso, Matisse or Malevitch
@CSKA_Moscou said in #4:
> I would prefer to spend my fortune on Chagall, Dali, Picasso, Matisse or Malevitch

hang a picasso picture on your wall,you look at it before sleep,youll have nightmares in your sleep
@Oportunist said in #5:
> hang a picasso picture on your wall,you look at it before sleep,youll have nightmares in your sleep

not for me. I really like this period in the History of painting because it explores form and color in an exuberant and universal way. I think that these artists were able to show their hardest or most joyful emotions without censoring themselves in their originality.
@CSKA_Moscou said in #6:
> not for me. I really like this period in the History of painting because it explores form and color in an exuberant and universal way. I think that these artists were able to show their hardest or most joyful emotions without censoring themselves in their originality.

some of picassos paintings are scary bro,you dont feel positive feelings when you look at it
@Oportunist said in #7:
> some of picassos paintings are scary bro,you dont feel positive feelings when you look at it

I know, seeing such a painting would make me think in a more philosophical way, why is this painting like that? this means that there is a reason, often a personal and human reason
Personally I wouldn't touch it at any price. First, I do think it is over rated, because it is so well known. Great art, yes; but there is so much else out there that is, to me, more interesting. @CSKA_Moscou makes the same point. I'm more interested in Van Gogh and the French impressionists, but the same reasoning holds.
My second consideration is that I just don't have the money to invest in art. OK, if you gave it to me for what I spent at the grocery store yesterday, sure. I could hang it in my working room (and make sure my kids don't draw a crayon mustache on it) and live without beer for a few days. But my family is considering a move in the future, and I doubt we will be able to package that safely and take it with us. Be a pity to leave it behind, no? Don't you agree it deserves better than that?
(What if my mother in law thought it was only a cheap reproduction and tore it up for cleaning rags? Hmm, plot twist there for a TV show maybe)

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