That might sound glaringly obvious, but too many people talk about blue chip artists as if the investment potential of their works are guaranteed, when in fact, even prices for the very top selling artists are extremely unpredictable.
It seems one week before Mask and the Board of Directors were about to close a deal with another unnamed investor, Olga Lozovskaya of Goldman Sachs made a call out of the blue to talk to Mask.
Yvonne Markowitz, a jewelry curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, said men rarely talk about the pieces they're collecting in the way they might show off a blue-chip painting.