Post #333195 by sirginn on Tue, Sep 18, 2007 1:54 PM

I do not think his popularity is fading, he continues to have shows all over the world (Europe, Asia, Australia etc..) now rather than just in So. cal and continues to sell them out despite increasing prices of his original art.

He is gaining exposure to a whole other audience, once just known to the tiki crowd and lowbrow movement, he is now collected by high end art collectors and celebrities. Which explains the 36 grand paintings selling quickly at his latest show.

Prints at shagmart (formerly Switched on gallery) used to sell out immediately because they were low priced and were snatched and resold on e-bay immediately for profit.

Piet and Josh were aware of this, and increased prices of the prints on shagmart to match the resale prices on e-bay, essentially cutting out the middleman's profit. Now the people purchasing the prints are only the true fans/collectors.

With over a hundred different Shag prints made already, and only so much wall space, fans and collectors have probably become more selective with their purchases.

Personally it has been a while since I purchased a Shag print, not because I do not like them, but because I already have so many (most now in storage), and no place to hang them. But there are still a lot of images that if made into a print, would tempt me to add to the collection.