Many years ago, when I was about 19 years old, I decided on art as a professional career, and with the help of Lee Krasner, Elaine deKooning and others, I did rather well, with a few sales in the six-figure numbers, although just barely squeaking by on that measure.
My average softball-sized bronze sculpture went for about $350 at first, in the sixties, then gradually topping off in the $22,000.00 range in the 1980s for my larger and more complex — and therefore more expensive at the foundry — bronze sculptures, usually with onyx bases. Continue reading