Here at the Chronicle, we are always keen to offer tips and bits of useful advice.
So here's one ...
Go out to your shed or into the spare room - or even attic or cellar (in fact, anywhere you have old junk stashed away) - and have a rummage. See if you can come up with an old Van Gogh or Picasso or similar artwork by some deceased dauber.
I mention this because of last week's news that Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alge was sold at auction for US$179 million. I was astonished by this. A trifling 179 mill? What has gone wrong with the art world?
If I had been passing by Christie's auction house in Manhattan at the time, I would have been in there like a shot and made sure the price was soon tickling the 200 million mark.