Found this 21x36 painting

[NHmetaldetectrelichunter]

I think it’s a Daniel Vacek original.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Nice one !
We had the same or very similar painting in our living room when I was a kid.

 

[NHmetaldetectrelichunter]

Nice one !
We had the same or very similar painting in our living room when I was a kid.

I am very inexperienced with art. I do think this holds some value. From the research Ive done my theory is that it’s from a painter named Daniel Vacek. I just don’t know enough about that to confirm it for a sale listing.

 

[Red-Coat]

It is a ‘Daniel Vacek’, but I believe this is a studio pseudonym for mass-produced wall-art from the 1970s and 1980s. That is, there is no such person as Daniel Vacek and the painting was likely produced by one or more anonymous artists working in a commercial studio.

Although some art sites provide brief biographical details suggesting Vacek was born in the former Yugoslavia in 1949 and studied pre-med before shifting focus to fine arts and then immigrating to Florida in the 1970s, these are invented details to give artistic credence to what is no more than a decorative work. This kind of fictional narrative is an incredibly common ploy used by commercial studios and ‘home art clubs’ of that era.

Search on Ebay and other auction sites and you will find a large number of almost identical formulaic scenes in the same style and with the same signature. What you won’t find are any photographs of an actual artist with that name.

Usually, you can pick them up for somewhere in the region of $50-$80, although they often have speculative asking prices in the region of $100 -$150.

 

[NHmetaldetectrelichunter]

It is a ‘Daniel Vacek’, but I believe this is a studio pseudonym for mass-produced wall-art from the 1970s and 1980s. That is, there is no such person as Daniel Vacek and the painting was likely produced by one or more anonymous artists working in a commercial studio.

Although some art sites provide brief biographical details suggesting Vacek was born in the former Yugoslavia in 1949 and studied pre-med before shifting focus to fine arts and then immigrating to Florida in the 1970s, these are invented details to give artistic credence to what is no more than a decorative work. This kind of fictional narrative is an incredibly common ploy used by commercial studios and ‘home art clubs’ of that era.

Search on Ebay and other auction sites and you will find a large number of almost identical formulaic scenes in the same style and with the same signature. What you won’t find are any photographs of an actual artist with that name.

Usually, you can pick them up for somewhere in the region of $50-$80, although they often have speculative asking prices in the region of $100 -$150.

Thank you so much