The art market is like the stock market. The stuff you invest in isn't the stuff you hang on your walls.

How many stocks are up there at the tippy tippy top of the stock board. Oh, yeah? What do they do? Everything? And what about them, what do they do? Oh, they also do everything? And what about them? They do everything too? Well, well, well. And what about that little specialty company that does one single thing better than everyone else? Oh, that company closed because it couldn't demonstrate obscene profits every quarter? Guess that's just what business is all about in the 21st Century.

We bring this up because there are people who are right now looking at this sale and saying "Oh, that art will never go up in value." And guess what: they're right! It won't! But guess what else: buying art as an investment isn't something most people will ever engage in. Some billionaire will get her husband a Picasso for his birthday. You? You'll be lucky to get socks!

We urge you not to make the same mistake you did when you tried to be a day trader in the late 1990s. Don't think that what works for the rich will work for you. Instead, take a look at this art, consider if it would bring you joy to have it on your walls every day, and then take the plunge. Own it. Love it. Move it from room to room until you find where it should hang. Step back, pour yourself a glass of reasonably-priced supermarket wine and get lost in the beauty.

Without feeling your retirement money teetering on the edge of a cliff every time your kitten leaps at your art.

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