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Paco Gorospe Oil Painting


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Condition: Excellent

Length: 38 x 26 inches

Painted: 1980s

This is an Oil Painting by Paco Gorospe, showing the city buildings on the top, Middle class houses on the centre and slum area near bottom by the sea/river and signed by Paco Gorospe on the bottom right of the picture.

My dad was a very good friend of Paco. Whenever my dad went to Manila, they would meet up and have drinks with afew more close friends. Year 1988/1989, my dad visited his shop to choose a painting, my dad chose this painting which was in Paco's office hidden from outsiders. Paco said it was his favourite collection was reluctant to give it up and showed other pieces to lure my dad away from that piece. As my dad has an eye for fine art, eventually he gave in as he knows my dad appreciates fine arts and gave it to my dad heavy-heartedly. Paco told my dad, "You are one hard guy to bargain!" FYI, his studio was set on fire 2 times before he died in Sep 2002. Sources said this piece of art would fetch around 200,000 pesos on year 2008. So any idea how much does it cost now??


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  • Root Admin

In my opinion, a painting's only financial value is what you can actually get for it when you sell it. If that painting means so much to you, it could be worth half a million or even a million pesos to you. But actually selling it is another mater. Following-on from that; since - (and I am guessing here) - you would be unlikely to actually want to ever sell the painting - you will never really know its true worth.

I have several Paco Gorospe paintings which I would be quite happy to sell for 65,000 to 100,000 pesos but I have never even came close to actually getting a genuine buyer for any of them...

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  • Root Admin

Thanks for posting the background info. regarding Paco Gorospe and your particular painting! :D

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Thanks for posting the background info. regarding Paco Gorospe and your particular painting! :D

Your welcome.. What can i say, my dad was very attached to this painting after getting it from Gorospe..

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