Original Artwork; 2007 U.D. Masterpieces

Ironmanfan

I recently picked up the original artwork for the 2007 Upper Deck Masterpieces card of Cal Ripken Jr. from a Huggins & Scott auction. The artist on the piece is "Cash" and I'm curious if anyone here had an idea as to his first name? Thanks...



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Ironmanfan

The artist used this 1987 Fleer box set card of Ripken as his "model"



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Stone193

That's a really nice piece!

I like this kind of stuff since it's art and more affordable than some stuff.

There's an artist who does sports and other stuff - Eric Cash.

Thanx for sharing and responding on my post on this kind of artwork - I guess there's very little interest in this kind of stuff?

Ironmanfan

Thanks Mike:

After looking at the web site, I think it's the same artisit. I want to contact him to see what the Replacment Value is for insurance purposes.

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jasoneggert

<< <i>Thanks Mike:

After looking at the web site, I think it's the same artisit. I want to contact him to see what the Replacment Value is for insurance purposes.

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It is definitely the same artist. He even uses the card on his website.

Link to page on website

-Jason

Ironmanfan

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<< <i>Thanks Mike:

After looking at the web site, I think it's the same artisit. I want to contact him to see what the Replacment Value is for insurance purposes.

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It is definitely the same artist. He even uses the card on his website.

Link to page on website

-Jason >>



Thanks Jason.....

One of the neat thing about the painting is that it is un-finished in the lower right corner, where the card border would be.....This is a perfect spot for me to have Cal sign it...

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vladguerrero

I would say what you paid at auction is fair for insurance value, I was tracking them for a while and that's by far the highest I've seen one sell for, pretty much double the top rookies. UD paid these artists like $50 to do them, I don't think asking the artist what he thinks it's worth would be a fair assessment on any grounds. That's a great painting, that set had some great artists, I sold my Vlad in the summer. ... I sold mine with the scratch off redemption card, coa card, a large promotional canvas stretched copy of the card (Vlad was one of the paintings used to promote the set) and a BGS 10 copy of the card for like $130. If you weren't aware they were redemptions from packs, it's extra neat that the Ripken image was used on the blaster and regular boxes.

My Vlad...

tyweb1

Both of those are very cool.

BunchOBull

Being that UD purchased the rights to Fleer, I wouldn't doubt if the painting were actually from a separate image than the Fleer card, just from the same shoot. It might be worth asking the artist if he has a copy of the original image to add to the piece.

Ironmanfan

<< <i>I would say what you paid at auction is fair for insurance value, I was tracking them for a while and that's by far the highest I've seen one sell for, pretty much double the top rookies. UD paid these artists like $50 to do them, I don't think asking the artist what he thinks it's worth would be a fair assessment on any grounds. >>



Just to update this, I think asking the artist what it's worth is very fair since (god forbid) if the painting was ever stolen or damaged, I certainly would want him to do another one for me. I contacted him via email and he recently got back to me and told me he would charge in the neighborhood of $2500 to do it.

It's been added to my Homeowners policy as a fine arts rider for that $2500 value (costs less than $10/year).

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byronscott4ever

Nice pickup. I wish UD did more basketball ones like these ones.

Kid4hof03

Great item Bill!

halosfan

I should into these ... those are fun items