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Positano, Italy, by Michael Seewald
From one of Michael's 65 world wide trips over the past 30 years,
usually a month per location.

Greetings Peter Lik fans.
We (Michael Seewald Galleries) have made this page to
welcome those new to the photographic art industry and that
are now excited about it due to viewing the nice photography of Peter Lik.

and continues to be. BUT not everyone is as collectable for returns, buyer BEWARE!

Question is, are Peter Lik's going to be the 'great investment' that they've been touted to be?

Keep reading, and make up your own mind...

Richard Prince's photo sold at auction, at Sotheby's
in New York for
$3,401,000.00

Here is an indept article about Peter Like
written by David Segal after interviewing Peter Lik back in 2015,

Business Day

Peter Lik’s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money.

By DAVID SEGAL FEB. 21, 2015

Peter Lik is in awe of himself. When he describes his career as a fine-art photographer, he speaks with the satisfaction of a guy who has performed miracles, at the pace of a bystander who just caught a glimpse of Superman. The words tumble forth in self-exalting, run-on sentences, most of them laced with profanity, all of them in the sunny, chummy accent of his native Australia.

“I’m the world’s most famous photographer, most sought-after photographer, most awarded photographer,” he said one recent afternoon, sipping a can of Red Bull in a conference room at Peter Lik USA, a 100,000-square-foot headquarters in Las Vegas devoted solely to the production and sale of Peter Lik photography. “So I said” — and what Mr. Lik said next is an unprintable version of “the heck with it,” and then — “I want to make something special, special, special, special.”

That something special was a photograph called “Phantom,” an image of an eerily human-shaped swirl of dust in Antelope Canyon in Arizona. In December, his company announced in a news release that an anonymous collector had spent $6.5 million for “Phantom.” That crushed the previous record, held by Andreas Gursky, whose “Rhein II” fetched $4.3 million at an auction in 2011, and Cindy Sherman, whose “Untitled #96” brought $3.9 million at another auction the same year.

But Mr. Gursky and Ms. Sherman are titans, with solo shows in pre-eminent museums.

Who is Peter Lik?

It irks him a little that you have to ask. Because by one measure — money — Mr. Lik may well be the most successful fine-art photographer who ever lived. He has sold $440 million worth of prints, according to his chief financial officer, in 15 galleries in the United States that he owns and that sell his work. The images are mostly panoramic shots of trees, sky, lakes, deserts and blue water in supersaturated colors. Generally speaking, his buyers are not people who acquire the art of Andreas Gursky and Cindy Sherman. ....

Con't here: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html

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Michael Seewald's Slot Canyon, '94
A very limited (as low as only 10, depending on size) edition
and he has hundreds of images, all of this quality!

2. They made VERY SMALL limited editions;

3. They were very serious artists/photographers;

All these things describe Michael Seewald and his limited edition art.

1. Michael makes quite different art, with a lot of 'ghosts', sometimes called angels, in his art
(not real ones, just a creation he makes with his 'very long exposures', turning
regular folks into ghosts types')

Michel Seewald's Ghost of Florence, Italy, 1989
Winner" 'First Place - Color'
San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, Annual Int'l Photo Competition, 1991.

His first national photographic award was when he was only 19, a collegiate one.

His first International award was in 1991, he was only 39.
He won his second, in 1996, against over 3,300 world-wide entries...

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Michael Seewald's Canal Reflections, Venice, Italy 1994
Sponsored by six time Sponsors Bob & Trudy Shaw, La Mesa, Ca.

Winner "Best of Show' San Diego Fair's 'International Photographic Competition', 1996
(From over 3,300 world-wide entries. What are your odds? Well, once in every 3,300 years!)

Well, let's just say Peter Lik's are in the hundreds per, almost a
thousand actually (950) on his large sizes. Seewald's? How about
only (10) 40"x50"s (close in size to his 1.5 meter), or (25) 30"x40"s (equals his 1 meter size)?
Yeah, that rare, and limited to only (50) for the 24"x30" sizes.

But how is the pricing on those? How about the same price range,
for such rarity- ABSURD! Yep. 24"x30" sizes run only $5,000.
So when do you think would be a good time to contact the Seewald
galleries about adding one to your collection? That's right, right now, before Seewald
comes to his senses and sees his work is under priced, compared to 'the competition'.

From Australia to Russia, Peru to Iceland or
Portugal to Nepal, master photographer
Michael Seewald's been there.

He also came up with an innovative 'sponsorship program' back in 1986,
enabling him to make over 57 world-wide trips to date (as of 5.'11), usually a month per
place, by letting folks invest in a piece, sight-unseen, for a discounted
rate over opening night prices. Hundreds of folks have taken advantage of these
offerings, and you still can, go here for more info: Seewald's sponsorship program

AND, a national photographic art magazine was so
enamored with Seewald's program, and his art, they
wrote a great article about it way back in 1991, here it is: Photographer Forum Article

Then do check to see if the prices the gallery claims some of his art is REALLY worth what they claim. Are they re-selling
for those kind of prices on eBay? Anywhere close? How about half of stated value? Not that we've seen!
How about a tenth? Yep, we notice it's more like a 10th, or less. Some stated on the auctions that gallery
values were quoted them at $70,000, or more, and yet most are NOT fetching even $7,000 on re-sale! Most go unsold.

So, buyers beware.

3.22.'13 NOTE: We found this interesting
article on how the Lik galleries
started to 'pull some shenanigans' to sell art, written by one of
his salespersons who started with Lik Galleries in Hawaii and
then moved to Las Vegas to help start their first one there.
He says, on this blog, that eventually he could not put up with it and quit:
scottreither.com.peter-lik-gallery-photographer-MY STORY
Seems like the director, Mr Donovan, may have had the same reservations, his input is further down under comments.

Most of the high value to these stunning prices are
due to the fact these images were very limited in availability.
NOTE: Ansel Adams, the most famous, is not on the 'high dollar'
record price list, his work was not that limited, overall.

This photographic image, by Edward Weston,
sold recently at auction for over one and a half million dollars.

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Edward Weston,
$1,609,000.00
This 1925 nude – Won by Peter MacGill of the Pace-MacGill Gallery.
The most a Weston has ever sold for, to date, April of 2008- Sotheby’s auction.

Andreas Gursky diptych sold at Sotheby's for
$3,340,000.00
in London in February 2007.

As of end 2011, Gursky holds a new record for highest
price paid at auction for a single photographic image.
His print Rhein II sold for USD $4,338,500.00 at
Christie's, New York on 8 November 2011.

Check out Michael Seewald's Pianoman, Shanghai, China, 1987
(a VERY limited edition of ONLY 10, available only in a 16x20" size, no other edition sizes to be produced)
We are selling it for $100,000 (asking price for #8/10, with # 9/10
going to sell at $500,000, and #10 at $1,000,000.00 minimum (or more).
Here is a link to Pianoman page with the story behind it.

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