DON RICKS Oil Painting on Board

[TORRERO]

Found this at a yard sale years ago and discovered that I could look up the name of the artist and information on this,
but I could never identify the Title of the painting.
This appears to be the real deal, this is on BOARD not CANVAS which is what I thought it was.
I have ALWAYS liked OIL ON CANVAS paintings so there is no doubt I picked this up because of that...
only I never pay more than $10-20 for painting simply because there are so many and I never had much money...
But some of his other works are listed in the $1,000's of dollars so I was hoping someone could give me more information about this specific piece of art ? And maybe it's value ? thanks in advance.

 

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[Red-Coat]

Nice picture. This from the ‘mutualart’ website:

Donald Ricks was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1929. Donald Ricks's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 120 USD to 4,973 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 4,973 USD for Grand Tetons - Fall, sold at Jackson Hole Art Auction in 2018. The artist died in 1996.

That particular work is just titled “Roses” but, beware, because in addition to being offered as a standard art print, it has also been offered as a simulated oil painting. Here, for example:

https://www.artprints.io/canvasoptions.asp?Numb=1&action=add&id=19583

Although that particular offering has a ‘canvas transfer’ (not board) at about $100, with the option for additional brush strokes to be added for about $25 to improve the realism, it may have also been available on board. I wouldn’t give a view on authenticity/originality from photographs.

Hope you have the real deal, but it needs examination in person.

 

[TORRERO]

Nice picture. This from the ‘mutualart’ website:

Donald Ricks was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1929. Donald Ricks's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 120 USD to 4,973 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 4,973 USD for Grand Tetons - Fall, sold at Jackson Hole Art Auction in 2018. The artist died in 1996.

That particular work is just titled “Roses” but, beware, because in addition to being offered as a standard art print, it has also been offered as a simulated oil painting. Here, for example:

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https://www.artprints.io/canvasoptions.asp?Numb=1&action=add&id=19583

Although that particular offering has a ‘canvas transfer’ (not board) at about $100, with the option for additional brush strokes to be added for about $25 to improve the realism, it may have also been available on board. I wouldn’t give a view on authenticity/originality from photographs.

Hope you have the real deal, but it needs examination in person.

A question I would have is whether they sign his name to these or not, mine clearly has a signature but these are replicas or copies, would they have some indication of that ?

 

[pepperj]

Nice picture. This from the ‘mutualart’ website:

Donald Ricks was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1929. Donald Ricks's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 120 USD to 4,973 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 4,973 USD for Grand Tetons - Fall, sold at Jackson Hole Art Auction in 2018. The artist died in 1996.

That particular work is just titled “Roses” but, beware, because in addition to being offered as a standard art print, it has also been offered as a simulated oil painting. Here, for example:

View attachment 2174210

https://www.artprints.io/canvasoptions.asp?Numb=1&action=add&id=19583

Although that particular offering has a ‘canvas transfer’ (not board) at about $100, with the option for additional brush strokes to be added for about $25 to improve the realism, it may have also been available on board. I wouldn’t give a view on authenticity/originality from photographs.

Hope you have the real deal, but it needs examination in person.

Clearly the paint addition is evident as it's on top of the R.

 

[Red-Coat]

A question I would have is whether they sign his name to these or not, mine clearly has a signature but these are replicas or copies, would they have some indication of that ?

Yes, it's common for reproduced works to include the original signature since the start point is a photograph of the original.

Clearly the paint addition is evident as it's on top of the R.

Good spot! So, yes, it's a paint-enhanced print for which the brushwork would not be by the original artist.

 

[TORRERO]

Clearly the paint addition is evident as it's on top of the R.
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Very interesting, I did not notice that, what I can tell you is that its clearly NOT a print, whether they took a print and
painted over it I can't tell you, but its NOT on CANVAS, which is what I thought when I bought it, but after following some online information to check what material was used, I discovered that it is on a BOARD, which I did not know they used until then... (online it said that he mostly used boards for his art) The paint is heavy and off the board, like it stands out off the board not like a regular painting, but put like it was paint pasted onto the board into the shape of the flowers and items that you see.... as if you looked at it from the side, instead of a flat painting its as if your looking at a mountain range of colors and wave caps of colors, that form the artwork. Its quite impressive actually,
Of course that doesn't make it real ... but I'm just saying.

 

[TORRERO]

Yes, it's common for reproduced works to include the original signature since the start point is a photograph of the original.



Good spot! So, yes, it's a paint-enhanced print for which the brushwork would not be by the original artist.

And just for the sake of argument, who is to say that he didn't sign it first then add a few touch ups and a dab got there ? I will take a closer look at those spots and see what I can see, in the pictures it kinda looks like a touch of paint is missing... maybe not painted over, but I can't tell..
I haven't taken extremely good care of it, as I really didn't know it might be worth something until recently.

 

[pepperj]

Very interesting, I did not notice that, what I can tell you is that its clearly NOT a print, whether they took a print and
painted over it I can't tell you, but its NOT on CANVAS, which is what I thought when I bought it, but after following some online information to check what material was used, I discovered that it is on a BOARD, which I did not know they used until then... (online it said that he mostly used boards for his art) The paint is heavy and off the board, like it stands out off the board not like a regular painting, but put like it was paint pasted onto the board into the shape of the flowers and items that you see.... as if you looked at it from the side, instead of a flat painting its as if your looking at a mountain range of colors and wave caps of colors, that form the artwork. Its quite impressive actually,
Of course that doesn't make it real ... but I'm just saying.

You can justify even wearing a cheap pair if sunglasses.
Art is so mass produced.
Redcoat explained it perfectly.

It's the type of art Sears sold in the art section in the department stores.

It's value is below a limited edition print.
They sell for below $60.
You want to believe this is worth 4 digits, but you're going to getting the lower tier 2 digits.