The Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art

This is a very rare instructional film from the 1960s, in which Vincent Price guides Sears Roebuck employees through his art for sale collection.

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Education

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• Vincent
• Price
• Sears
• Art
• collection
• instructional
• film

[organfairy]

I just love that voice.

[shakinit88]

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.

[Vincek88]

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.

[ronssexybikerbae]

He was such a wonderful man. I love his voice. RIP Vincent

[NLBtheONLYfiyero]

@wendyverdades totally! ;)

[VeryHugeAss]

He has good flow in his speaking, he does not fumble.

[acrophobe]

francesco goya.



[wendyverdades]

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.

[snick52]

I have a org painting from this collection. how do i find value of painting ?

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@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.

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@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.

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@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".