Talk:The Concert (Vermeer)

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What makes it worth $200 million?

In its 20th-anniversary coverage of the heist, CBS reports that this painting is worth $200 million. For such a valuable work, this article contains precious little description or commentary on it! 71.219.237.212 (talk) 01:55, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What makes any piece of art – or any object, for that matter – worth $200 million? It's simply a matter of economics (i.e., what some buyer is willing to pay for it). In this case, the piece is 350 years old ... and the artist (Johannes Vermeer) "is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age". Those facts seem reason enough to support the value placed on the painting. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:28, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For being an unrecovered work worth as much as $200million the "provenance" is simply ludicrous. How about a proper provenance from 1696 on? And perhaps an explanation why the singer is so uncharacteristically unclear, muted and un-Vermeer-like?184.148.67.99 (talk) 19:53, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]