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HEY Y’ALL!
Thanks for all the great feedback on the Wes Lang piece I shared looong time ago! :)
🔥 ICYMI – Catchs from the Last Weeks:
-Today’s Catch-
David Hockney
David Hockney, My Window Series (x4), 2009
💭 My 2 Cents: Hockney’s My Window quartet looks like quiet morning still lifes... yet at £160k it outruns most start-ups on velocity. Stocks can dip, bitcoin can yaws, but these prints keep clearing salons - quiet luxury for walls, not wallets. And unlike memes, they come boxed with pedigree.
🔑 Key Numbers: Edition of 250. Current ask: £160,000. Last full set hammered at £170,100 (Phillips, 2022). Single sheets list at $51.5k while recent auctions averaged $40.7k - dealer spread’s around 26%. Sell-through for Hockney prints hit 89% in 2024. iPad series led blue-chip print revenue last year by volume.
🧠 Why It’s a Smart Pick: The Louis Vuitton mega-show keeps eyeballs glued and wallets twitchy. Hockney’s 87, supply’s fixed, and Asia’s still buying in sterling. Fiiineee.. is a chunky edition... but sets get broken, demand’s global, and no one’s making another 87-year-old with a track record like this. Lock the box, ride the pre-90th wave, then choose: flip it for cash or hang it like you mean it.
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🔥 Words I Like: liquidity, swagger, ft
So… apparently we’re in the Financial Times now
Alessandro buzzed my phone, screenshot attached, our name sitting neatly between Oaktree and Hivemind.
That moment felt like a clean handshake from the establishment, the kind that turns heads without inflating egos.
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The piece talks about our 85-percent hit rate on AI pricing and calls it “efficiency.”
We see it as the ignition key for a bigger engine.
Valuation is the diagnostic; liquidity is the treatment.
If you own a $250k canvas, the waiting game is over because a forty-eight-hour cash bid beats a six-month hope rally every time.
The model chews auction lots, dusty PDF price lists, JPEG colour histograms, and back-channel dealer chatter.
It spits out a number with receipts and then passes through human hands to catch hidden restorations and phantom comps.
Dealers unload inventory faster, lenders underwrite faster, collectors pivot faster; that feedback loop keeps the market breathing.
Seeing that logic printed in the FT tells the capital crowd our pipes are live and pressure-tested.
We’re grateful for the coverage, but it’s a mile marker, not a finish line.
Next on deck: scale the bid desk, feed insurers real-time values, and let liquidity flow like clockwork.
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