Damn, you'd think that with a degree in English Lit, I would have remembered how to spell "deleated"
Originally Posted By: Terry Doyle
Originally Posted By: Royd
Haha, I left a comment on the Vaughn Bode Cobalt 60 page that it had last sold at a Heritage auction in 2006 for $3.8K - my comment has now been deleted!
"In time, no one will remember our work. Our life will pass like the traces of a cloud and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun. For our time is the passing of a shadow . . ."
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Originally Posted By: westform
I always knew there were some quirky characters in OA circles but this guy is going to make the all time top 10 list if this plays out....
The way I figure it out, Rae was probably finding it very, very difficult to get other collectors interested in doing business with him following his widespread exposure as a confidence-trickster.
He appears to have then wound-down his CAF gallery, to give the impression that his collection had been sold off (as Brian Howard advises Rae had told him).
'Vince Greck' then appears in March of this year. He uploads a handful of images (presumably of stuff we hadn't seen before) to whet our appetites. The lengthy (accompanying) spiel in Greck's CAF gallery, talks of many types of art which, I believe, was designed to encourage private contact from would-be-buyers.
In all fairness to Rae (if Greck's not Rae, he's no doubt a front for him), he's quite entitled to sell art he possesses, but in the long-run he's done himself a lot of self-damage through his past scams.
As long as folks here know who they're dealing with, it's entirely their call if they want to go that route.
I certainly wouldn't want to do business with Rae, no matter what tempting artworks he may upload.
To my mind, that would be putting money in the pockets of a thief.
The fact that he's had to go through this elaborate ploy should tell us everything we need to know about how he works . . .
"In time, no one will remember our work. Our life will pass like the traces of a cloud and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun. For our time is the passing of a shadow . . ."
"In time, no one will remember our work. Our life will pass like the traces of a cloud and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun. For our time is the passing of a shadow . . ."
"In time, no one will remember our work. Our life will pass like the traces of a cloud and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun. For our time is the passing of a shadow . . ."
"In time, no one will remember our work. Our life will pass like the traces of a cloud and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun. For our time is the passing of a shadow . . ."
