There are such "scary" stories associated with the name of Art. It turns out depends on the sale of title work. Your friend has a picture of a famous author with the author's name is "drowned". Can not sell for several years now
even though the work itself is beautiful. I have a picture of a famous artist with an author called "Funeral". Same story
As I did not call her - "The Last Way" and something else, I do not remember, even in English "Last Journey" (author's version of the work of the same name sold at Sotheby's), but not sold "Funeral" for me