it's the same w musicians, prince, michael jackson etc all made squillions after death. being an artist is a v dangerous profession
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Alone the tickets to his last tour are worth much more even tho it didn't happen
Hp Lovecraft becoming a foundation of multiple genres....50+ years after dying in poverty.
RIP... especially his cat 🐈⬛️
Well he was a super-racist asshole, so I'm not too torn up that he wasn't wealthy.
Cosmic justice
It's real annoying if you want to use art as a tax dodge/money laundering medium and the stupid artist keeps making more pieces to alter the value
Has an artist ever faked their own death to cash in on the phenomenon?
Imagine faking your death and then seeing your art not increase in value
Oh wow.
Just need to wait it out a while longer... just a while longer...
The artists looking at the wealth on their graves be like: