Summer auction in London

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The acquisition of money requires courage, prudence requires the preservation of money, a waste of money required of art ...
Berthold Auerbach

And precisely.
Sometimes you begin to understand that many purchasers of painting as it is on making money out of steam, tired and, having calmed down, buy often, shall we say, without thinking carefully. : D

  fross, thanks for this aphorism.