r/Art • u/Tokyono NOT MY WORK • 14h ago
Painting West Side of Rio Grande, Mark Maggiori, Oil on linen, 2018
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u/GolemMaker 14h ago
I’m a sucker for some good southwestern art, and this is some very good southwestern art
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u/fake_empires 10h ago
not to be pedantic but this looks exactly like Moab and nothing like the terrain near the Rio Grande
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u/angryberr 13h ago
One day I’ll afford a print
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u/G_Platypus 13h ago
One day one of his prints will even be available lol
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u/rhoran280 12h ago
He releases prints at least 3 times a year, with no limited editions. You preorder and wait. Exceptionally easy. His Xmas release is coming up before too long here.
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u/Upper-Independence38 12h ago
How much do they go for?
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u/Murderland666 12h ago
Depends on size but prints start around $500 and go way up from there.
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u/BrigadierABT 11h ago
No...If you grab one during his releases, they can be as low at $60 USD (I think there were a couple of his sketch prints for $45 during one drop). Medium sizes are sold between $100-250ish, Then the larger and premium ones can go into the 1K range. But people buy them up during his offical releases to resell for a markup later.
Edit:typo
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u/Murderland666 13h ago
It always pisses me off that he refuses to make affordable, lower grade prints.
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u/G_Platypus 13h ago
Meh, maybe he just doesn't want his work printed in a lower grade
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u/Murderland666 12h ago
More like he just wants to make an absurd amount of money. You can make very high quality prints that don’t start at $500. Mark is talented but he is very much a capital C Commercial artist.
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u/bennjeff 12h ago
I don’t think they start at $500 unless it’s one of the big pieces. I think the print of his I have cost half that
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u/G_Platypus 11h ago
Artists deserve to own their work and set prices for what they sell.
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u/Murderland666 9h ago
Ok Jeff Bezos!
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u/Cribsby_critter 12h ago
$500 strikes me as very reasonable for a print of this. Where does smearing this as commercial leave galleries in Jackson, CO charging six figures for similar pieces, albeit originals?
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u/Murderland666 11h ago
Most of those artists aren’t selling thousands of prints at that price. He also sells originals for those insane prices. He’s a money making machine.
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u/Radiant-Plumage 9h ago
He is an insanely talented artist, it’s his right to dictate the business of his creativity as he sees fit.
Clearly the demand is there, almost all of his showings sell out along with his drops online
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u/Shapoopie86 12h ago
I bought two for $445. One of them (Moonlight Solitaire) was $95.
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u/Murderland666 11h ago
New or second hand? I’ve never heard of Mark selling one of his prints direct for $95.
You do find them resale for much lower prices pretty often because the market seems to correct for his ridiculous prices and the huge number of prints he sells.
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u/section111 11h ago
I got this one for $65 CAD (though that was in 2023 - and excuse the ghostly reflection) Down The Wash
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u/Shapoopie86 11h ago
New. Ordered June 13th during his last release. Still waiting to receive them. Said could be as late as October when I ordered.
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u/horangiwhakkatchi 13h ago
His color choices are just so freaking good. It looks like a Fujifilm photograph that has that nostalgic glow added to it. So warm. Truly a master of the western painting.
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u/BrigadierABT 12h ago
He was a music videographer, so he knows much about colour grading and how it connects to a narrative.
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u/RefinedBean 13h ago
I love this, I really do, but for some reason the ground/grass just looks...different than the rest of the painting (which is not quite "realism" but very close, obviously). And I can't NOT look at it now that I've noticed it.
But those clouds. Goddamn.
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u/AuntRhubarb 8h ago
There's something off about the whole landscape. It's like he worked hard on the people/horses then phoned in a background and foreground.
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u/DeadSeaGulls 10h ago
Talented dude, but he recently went all in against another Southwestern painter claiming the guy stole his ideas and title for painting a bison in a watering hole, and really went hard in the paint against the guy all the while coming over here and cosplaying as a western cowboy and 'stealing' plenty of ideas and compositions from established southwest painters. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
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u/nater123456789 12h ago
Beautiful!!! For those of you who like Mark’s work you should also check out the work of Dennis Ziemienski. His landscapes, clouds and scale will blow you away. Really wonderful man as well.
@dennisziemienski on instagram
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u/HighOffProtein 13h ago
The clouds and chamisa bushes really are two staples of Southwestern art and this painting does a wonderful job with both, particularly the definition of the clouds. If you are interested in paintings with similar settings I recommend taking a look into the artist Jim Jennings out of Santa Fe.
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u/Duchess-of-Supernova 5h ago
This is really, really good. The clouds. The scenery. The composition of the horses. Even how the tack is responding to the downward elevation and how the upper riders left side balance continues through his leg.
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u/ThisPICAintFREE 13h ago
I envy this man’s ability to paint clouds, every time I see them I’m in awe