i can honestly say i first heard of him whilst listening to alice coopers album welcome to my nightmare song devils food.. then in mj's thriller but i hate that song his voice is natureally eerir and awesome
I've seen this before and loved the intro to it, sadly edited from this. He is shown hanging a picture, and says to the camera, "Oh, good day. I assure you I'm here today hanging paintings, not people." Ha, ha! Vincent Price having fun with his own fame!
What I love most is that there's not a hint of snobbery about him. He's cutting this spot as part of an instruction program for the many Sears salespeople so that they can at least sound reassuringly authoritative to their customers.
wow, this beats the hell out of those "training" videos you see today when you start to work at places like JCpenny or Macys or Sears. people who worked there around this time were soooooooooooo lucky cuz they got to watch vincent price!!! too cool, thansk for posting!
I bought a Vincent Price Collection painting at an estate sale in Palm Springs, California some 10 years ago. It's an original oil by Italian painter Domenico Luciani (1929-2001). I love the painting. Amazing quality.
6min 20 sec. in Legrande Its on my wall what a small world. Angel appearing to the shepards was sold to my Aunt for 900.00 Vincente offered my Aunt 3 times the amt. to buy it back because the clerk made a mistake on the price. She laughed at him. They became freinds after this but she kept the rembrandte etching. She sold it approx. 15 yrs ago for around 50,000.00 2yrs. later it was sold by parkwest galleries for around 150,000.00.
I'm especially impressed by his appreciation for Legrande, who, as he says, had died just recently. It seems Legrande outlived his legend by decades and he and his work were all but forgotten when Price made this clip.
Great story! It just goes to remind us that art has no specific value in dollars and cents. God does not have some celestial book with the true value of anything inscribed therein. It's just whatever people are willing to pay for it at any given time. It is both worthless and priceless.
I am reading vincents bio right now, read that he saved for a rembrandt etching that cost 37.50 in 1923 when he was 12 ,so he started early loving art..the rembrandt by the way, wonder what it looked like ..
That was very interesting....and enjoyable. I remember listening to an interview conducted with Samuel Z Arkoff and he mentioned Vincent Price being into art etc....That was the first time i heard about that and so its interesting to see this video.
I didn't know about Vincent Price and art until the early nineties when I stumbled across The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art in the local library. I eventually got my own copy through Amazon. Awesome and VERY educational.
Thank U Vincent!! Really enjoyed that art 'tour'. Mr. Price was originally going to be an artist & I believe he studied for that discipline. His love of art is obvious.
In its heyday, the Sears 'Vincent Price Collection' was very popular, and a great commercial success. The paintings and other works sold all over America.
I think it's a very interesting concept and it's something I had never heard of before. I think it would be interesting if somewhere like Target tried something like this. I remember what a big deal the Sears catalog was when I was a kid. Now I don't know anyone who shops at Sears.
What would be really interesting to know is who owns the artwork now, and just how much it would be worth today, considering the sheer infamy of Vincent Price, or the artists themselves!
Good point, WeeTotyFing. I'll go out on a limb and guess that these prints are not worth very much today, seeing as over 50,000 of them were sold - not to mention that they were sold to a very pedantic Sears audience.
If they have any value, I imagine it would be in a nostalgic, kitschy sense, and can be bought at garage sale prices.
This is not to demean or look down on Price's keen sense of great work, and what sells. In that regard, this collection was a great success.
So that Toulouse-Lautrec print was mass produced? When Vincent was talking about it being signed and hand colored by Lautrec I was thinking it was unique. LOL! I need to read up on this. Very interesting.
Yes, the Toulouse-Lautrec is an original, and as Price says, it is one of the more expensive pieces in the collection, probably out of the price range of most customers.
I'm all but certain that the majority of those pieces are prints.
Most but definitely not all. Vincent Price traveled all over and purchased at least 30,00 of the 50,000 pieces sold by Sears. I read he even commissioned a number of works specifically for the Sears Collection.
I think Price meant the print was a limited, conteporaneous run that Lautrec had added some coloring to and signed personally. Sorta like Thomas Kinkade making a few dabs on a mass-produced work and calling it "original".
I found some old ads and they had a Piet Mondrian painting for $800 and a Picasso painting for $800. Both were oil on canvas and signed. Reading online I get the impression the stuff was often unique works of art. Of course most of it was by people who were not and are not well known so most of it's probably worth very little today- but if that's really a Mondrian painting and not a reproduction (and a good sized one at that- 5 x 5 feet) it's definitely worth way more than 800 dollars today.
Back when this collection was available (1965 I believe) - $800 was a significant amount of money, well over a month's salary for most people. I doubt your typical Sears shopper was going to drop that kind of cash on a painting.
Also, Picasso was still living at that time - the prices on his work didn't go through the roof until after he died.
I'm still willing to bet that most of that stuff is prints - I'm going to read up on it as well.
Yeah, $800 was worth a whole lot more back then but still, $800 for a legit Mondrian painting? That sounds unbelievably cheap and anyone who got in on that back then and held onto it is rich now. The Picasso prints they offered were at prices in line with today and those would not have increased in value all that much. But a Picasso painting for $800- that strikes me as a heck of a deal.
Wow, I actually first heard of Vincent Price seeing him in the Sears catalogs of the time...seeing him in "The Tingler" a while later was a surprise.
Vincek88 2 months ago
He was such a wonderful man. I love his voice. RIP Vincent
ronssexybikerbae 7 months ago
He has good flow in his speaking, he does not fumble.
VeryHugeAss 9 months ago
francesco goya.
acrophobe 10 months ago
I understand he donated enough art to a local junior college so they could have a teaching catalogue for students to peruse, What a hottie.
wendyverdades 11 months ago
@wendyverdades totally! ;)
NLBtheONLYfiyero 8 months ago
I have a org painting from this collection. how do i find value of painting ?
snick52 1 year ago
i can honestly say i first heard of him whilst listening to alice coopers album welcome to my nightmare song devils food.. then in mj's thriller but i hate that song his voice is natureally eerir and awesome
666cuDDles666 1 year ago
I've seen this before and loved the intro to it, sadly edited from this. He is shown hanging a picture, and says to the camera, "Oh, good day. I assure you I'm here today hanging paintings, not people." Ha, ha! Vincent Price having fun with his own fame!
captainh321 1 year ago
@captainh321
What I love most is that there's not a hint of snobbery about him. He's cutting this spot as part of an instruction program for the many Sears salespeople so that they can at least sound reassuringly authoritative to their customers.
pinz2022 1 year ago
wow, this beats the hell out of those "training" videos you see today when you start to work at places like JCpenny or Macys or Sears. people who worked there around this time were soooooooooooo lucky cuz they got to watch vincent price!!! too cool, thansk for posting!
burtonrules123 1 year ago
zero122662 I have an original oil painting from this collection. How do i found out its value?
zero122662 1 year ago
Very interesting video.
tdartista48 2 years ago
Thanks for this wonderful posting!
smilepurr 2 years ago
I first heard about Vincent's love of art just a few days ago on the Charlie Rose show in his interview with Tim Burton.
palmcapoos 2 years ago
I bought a Vincent Price Collection painting at an estate sale in Palm Springs, California some 10 years ago. It's an original oil by Italian painter Domenico Luciani (1929-2001). I love the painting. Amazing quality.
mospheric 2 years ago
6min 20 sec. in Legrande Its on my wall what a small world. Angel appearing to the shepards was sold to my Aunt for 900.00 Vincente offered my Aunt 3 times the amt. to buy it back because the clerk made a mistake on the price. She laughed at him. They became freinds after this but she kept the rembrandte etching. She sold it approx. 15 yrs ago for around 50,000.00 2yrs. later it was sold by parkwest galleries for around 150,000.00.
shakinit88 2 years ago 2
@shakinit88
I'm especially impressed by his appreciation for Legrande, who, as he says, had died just recently. It seems Legrande outlived his legend by decades and he and his work were all but forgotten when Price made this clip.
pinz2022 1 year ago
@shakinit88
Great story! It just goes to remind us that art has no specific value in dollars and cents. God does not have some celestial book with the true value of anything inscribed therein. It's just whatever people are willing to pay for it at any given time. It is both worthless and priceless.
pinz2022 1 year ago
My first exposure to Vincent Price's love of art was seeing the Biography that aired after his passing. I've always been a big fan of his work
TuxKamen 2 years ago
I have a Vincent Price Collection Gothic Table and Chair set that is probably priceless.. I think I will be buried with it. like the Pharaos
labay42 2 years ago
I am reading vincents bio right now, read that he saved for a rembrandt etching that cost 37.50 in 1923 when he was 12 ,so he started early loving art..the rembrandt by the way, wonder what it looked like ..
Dravenswraith 2 years ago
That was very interesting....and enjoyable. I remember listening to an interview conducted with Samuel Z Arkoff and he mentioned Vincent Price being into art etc....That was the first time i heard about that and so its interesting to see this video.
Basiltyne 2 years ago
According to Sears website,. the collection began on Oct 6,1962.
Price was given complete authority to pick out the works and even had artists such a Salvador Dali make special works just for this collection.
Supposedly the collection included Picassos, Chagalls, Wyeths.
prices ranged from $10-$3000 and you could pay on installments $5 down and $5 a month.
The collection was featured in most of their stores or through a special catalouge and was very popular. They had sold 50,000 by 1971
JTPolo101 3 years ago
@JTPolo101
I didn't know about Vincent Price and art until the early nineties when I stumbled across The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art in the local library. I eventually got my own copy through Amazon. Awesome and VERY educational.
pinz2022 1 year ago
I just love that voice.
organfairy 3 years ago 17
I love it to, its sooooo relaxing.
alotosius 3 years ago
Thank U Vincent!! Really enjoyed that art 'tour'. Mr. Price was originally going to be an artist & I believe he studied for that discipline. His love of art is obvious.
dapoetmaster 3 years ago
In its heyday, the Sears 'Vincent Price Collection' was very popular, and a great commercial success. The paintings and other works sold all over America.
simonferrer 3 years ago
I think it's a very interesting concept and it's something I had never heard of before. I think it would be interesting if somewhere like Target tried something like this. I remember what a big deal the Sears catalog was when I was a kid. Now I don't know anyone who shops at Sears.
McCainTheTurdburglar 3 years ago
What would be really interesting to know is who owns the artwork now, and just how much it would be worth today, considering the sheer infamy of Vincent Price, or the artists themselves!
WeeTotyFing 3 years ago
Good point, WeeTotyFing. I'll go out on a limb and guess that these prints are not worth very much today, seeing as over 50,000 of them were sold - not to mention that they were sold to a very pedantic Sears audience.
If they have any value, I imagine it would be in a nostalgic, kitschy sense, and can be bought at garage sale prices.
This is not to demean or look down on Price's keen sense of great work, and what sells. In that regard, this collection was a great success.
yoyopro 3 years ago
So that Toulouse-Lautrec print was mass produced? When Vincent was talking about it being signed and hand colored by Lautrec I was thinking it was unique. LOL! I need to read up on this. Very interesting.
McCainTheTurdburglar 3 years ago
Yes, the Toulouse-Lautrec is an original, and as Price says, it is one of the more expensive pieces in the collection, probably out of the price range of most customers.
I'm all but certain that the majority of those pieces are prints.
yoyopro 3 years ago
@yoyopro
Most but definitely not all. Vincent Price traveled all over and purchased at least 30,00 of the 50,000 pieces sold by Sears. I read he even commissioned a number of works specifically for the Sears Collection.
pinz2022 1 year ago
@McCainTheTurdburglar
I think Price meant the print was a limited, conteporaneous run that Lautrec had added some coloring to and signed personally. Sorta like Thomas Kinkade making a few dabs on a mass-produced work and calling it "original".
pinz2022 1 year ago
I found some old ads and they had a Piet Mondrian painting for $800 and a Picasso painting for $800. Both were oil on canvas and signed. Reading online I get the impression the stuff was often unique works of art. Of course most of it was by people who were not and are not well known so most of it's probably worth very little today- but if that's really a Mondrian painting and not a reproduction (and a good sized one at that- 5 x 5 feet) it's definitely worth way more than 800 dollars today.
McCainTheTurdburglar 3 years ago
Back when this collection was available (1965 I believe) - $800 was a significant amount of money, well over a month's salary for most people. I doubt your typical Sears shopper was going to drop that kind of cash on a painting.
Also, Picasso was still living at that time - the prices on his work didn't go through the roof until after he died.
I'm still willing to bet that most of that stuff is prints - I'm going to read up on it as well.
yoyopro 3 years ago
Yeah, $800 was worth a whole lot more back then but still, $800 for a legit Mondrian painting? That sounds unbelievably cheap and anyone who got in on that back then and held onto it is rich now. The Picasso prints they offered were at prices in line with today and those would not have increased in value all that much. But a Picasso painting for $800- that strikes me as a heck of a deal.
McCainTheTurdburglar 3 years ago