“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man.
You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death”-(Hermann Hesse)
I have a painting done by an artist that similar ones sell for $7,500 to $15,
000 that is quoted as saying about his art work that until he did these if he created something beautiful he’d be a traitor to the art world. He took old lace and painted over it to get the pattern. It’s titled “vacant lot in the springtime”. He lives in Houston TX and a graduate of Rice University located there. The painting was commissioned by Toby McGuire who played the Spider-Man part in the movies. Originally there were three panels, he took two back to California and left the third one with the artist, which is I own. Since the artist was already paid he donated it to a charity auction function I attended and I won the bid for $300.
He has quite the reputation for debauchery I found out later.
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… this is one of those that if I owned it I would never be able to tell if I had it oriented on the wall correctly. 
Good grab though. You should see if you can locate the owner of the other two panels and tell them that it was originally a triptych and therefore what they own is incomplete. You might be able to make a nice profit.
"Art for art’s sake, money for God’s sake”. - 10 cc
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… trust me … you are that talented.
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… as with most (not all) modern art … just more of The Emperor’s New Clothes.
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I call it my ugly painting. The colors are nauseating. Toby probably thought the same. He probably couldn’t make it work with his decor.
It’s obviously just a rich person’s collecting and wasting money game.
Rich benefactors etc
I used to collect some occult themed paintings for artists I found that were local or very small scale, because I liked the art.
When the pricing starts to get in the thousands and millions it really just is a game of status and boredom, nothing really about art appreciation.
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I wonder whether it were to be flipped upside down and titled “Blue and Yellow”, would it sell for more?
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Comment upvoted for it’s raw pithiness Paintings / art like this are great vehicles for grift payments (Hunter Biden) and money laundering (paying the owner way more than the item is worth as a means of moving cash). There is more to these sales than ‘meets the eye’ (pun intended).