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Will Rick gamble on rare painted postcards from an icon of the underground art world? Find out in this clip from "Cutting Edge Pawn". #PawnStars
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Pawn Stars
Season 13
Episode 26
Cutting Edge Pawn
"Pawn Stars" follows three generations of the Harrison family as they assess the value of items coming in and out of their Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, from the commonplace to the truly historic.
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@fernandomagana8516 6 жыл бұрын

Literally spat my food once he said he'd take the deal. WTF

@SW-Lopez1980 2 жыл бұрын

Same!!!!

@thebeautifulanimal 5 жыл бұрын

Only 50k for original baquiat? What a fool.

@mfranks4731 5 жыл бұрын

no only 50k for 3 original basquiats lmao

@moegerms 5 жыл бұрын

THREE (3)!!!!!😭😂😭😂😭😂😭

@laquinnlewis3147 4 жыл бұрын

Stupid

@jejfcjsksksw1209 4 жыл бұрын

It's fake lol, he's not stupid, he's so smart at faking something valuable

@shinyhaunter6019 4 жыл бұрын

For 3 lol.. Not one

@bke8073 Жыл бұрын

Bro had an appraiser come in and tell him they are real and his response is “yeah this is a massive risk”😂😂😂

@Mr.Shiesty727 7 жыл бұрын

He got ripped off LOL

@frankieflowers3308 7 жыл бұрын

He actually ripped them off, those are fake postcards. They are worth shit.

@captainmarvel9981 6 жыл бұрын

He ripped them off, Those are fakes made by a forger named Kevin Doyle. Look him up

@yaniratangoart 6 жыл бұрын

actually, he ripped Pawn Stars. Those were fake Basquiats. Had they been real he would have had them appraised long before he stepped into the pawn shop. The so called friend lied. Basquiat never painted on his postcards. He drew and collaged them. He also never ever wrote SAMO or drew crowns on them because he didn't start to paint until much later.

@anthonymorales842 6 жыл бұрын

I just looked at KD replications I guessed every one correctly a fake versus the original. There is a controlled look to the KD paintings. They are good no doubt but just have that look of trying to convince

@mikephillips8538 5 жыл бұрын

Needed the fast cash. Pawn business bruh lol

@jakecooper5855 6 жыл бұрын

"We were both young, very much the same age"... That's a next level genius statement right there

@1995Lupino 5 жыл бұрын

But did they get along famously?

@kolbyorozco9494 4 жыл бұрын

Mi p right like what is so genius about that statement? Lol 😂

@jakecooper5855 4 жыл бұрын

@@kolbyorozco9494 Ya'll need to put your thinking caps on.

@kolbyorozco9494 4 жыл бұрын

Jake Cooper elaborate?

@jakecooper5855 4 жыл бұрын

@@kolbyorozco9494 Ok, well a thinking cap is a metaphorical device that suggests going outside of the box and looking at something from other angles. There's no actual hat to put on, although there's no reason why you couldn't put on a hat of your choice if it helps the process.

@Sharperthanu1 6 жыл бұрын

If they're really by Basquiat they'll have his fingerprints and DNA on them.Basquiat's paintings now sell for more than a million dollars a piece.

@TheGoddessonfire 3 жыл бұрын

This is so fake, no one is going to a pawn shop with basquiats and even if they did they would bring real experts

@Dashft1 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGoddessonfire everything in the show is fake lol

@abrahamjackson6019 2 жыл бұрын

That guy is selling the artwork has to be a crackhead

@ellenhenderson6865 Жыл бұрын

Yes definitely a million a piece.

@weirdshibainu 7 жыл бұрын

I have the original bona fide mona lisa, how much will you give me? I can give you $5,000. Massive risk, gotta get it framed, not sure of the artist.

@MrMaddox57 5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@andrewptob 5 жыл бұрын

“It’s gonna sit in my shop for who knows how long...”

@anuj95ification 7 жыл бұрын

Meh, he could have sold it for $200,000+ at an auction. Even after auction fee he could've easy got $130,000+. I know it's a little tedious process but he would have got around 2.5x the money this baldy gave him.

@captainmarvel9981 6 жыл бұрын

Those are fakes made by a forger named Kevin Doyle. Look him up

@cesiumbob7278 6 жыл бұрын

You’re absolutely right in fact he may have gotten even more at auction because one of Basquiat’s paintings sold for $113 million. He could have gotten maybe $200,000 a piece.

@madkhan9939 6 жыл бұрын

This baldy just gave him 60k of his hard earned cash. It's upto the guy how much he sells his stuff for.

@morna45 6 жыл бұрын

Do you know that for sure? Do I have to google it now?

@MilitaryHistory2011 6 жыл бұрын

Key word being Could Have

@IBradFrazer 4 жыл бұрын

Out of all the clips I have seen about this show, this is one of the weirdest. Now I understand that with owning items worth so much money, comes a certain level of pressure, but this dude was told to his face that he could get $50k for each of them, so $150k for all three, and even with a 30% fee he would still get $105k. Even if they under-sold, there is no way they'd sell for as low as $17,000 apiece. So, either this guy is stupid, impatient, or has a lot of money and therefore doesn't really care.

@terrytrekas5730 2 жыл бұрын

he accepted it because he knew they were fakes. The show likely will never admit it, but they got hosed.......

@jimzucker 2 жыл бұрын

or maybe the whole thing is just staged, think about it

@DigitalNomadInvestor 2 жыл бұрын

@@terrytrekas5730 that is very possible. The things the "friend" pointed out aren't difficult to fake.

@DjFico238 2 жыл бұрын

Remember this is a tv show and probably they are actors

@luhkash7418 2 жыл бұрын

it’s staged

@mysse67 5 жыл бұрын

He clearly didn’t obtain these legally, because if he did, he wouldn’t pass up 100k$ extra by selling them through auction (minus 30% fee)

@smittywerben1849 3 жыл бұрын

Not exactly, if he obtained it illegally it would be just as bad to sell it to a pawnshop since they catalog every item pawned and bought and have it checked by the police. He didn't go through with the auction because he had no papers proving its legit and the risks of auctions as well

@charliebaltimore4827 Жыл бұрын

Naw he's just filthy rich

@Enigma1158 6 жыл бұрын

30k a piece.. Im taking a huge risk, how about $10?

@Bonesph 4 жыл бұрын

Good thing he's got one Basquiats friends in the neighborhood...

@JohnDoe-sx2zk 4 жыл бұрын

lmao

@SyntaxErrorXoXo 6 жыл бұрын

"I'm taking a huge risk here! They're worth 150k, but I'm taking a massive risk doubling my money here, so you need to go lower. It's such a huge risk for me, you know."

@ajrodriguez4571 6 жыл бұрын

“Me and Mr. Basquiat got along famously.”

@cob1240 4 жыл бұрын

He turned and threw a pass and I caught the ball myself.

@boonetyler656 3 жыл бұрын

Wow you're fun at parties

@TurquoiseStar17 Жыл бұрын

@@boonetyler656 Sounds so fun...

@agyepongboateng9552 6 жыл бұрын

Smart exchange there on both their parts. Basquiat was a genius. I wish he was still around to reap the rewards of his masterpieces.

@izehthedesigner3229 5 жыл бұрын

Agyepong Boateng agreed. Well he was sold a painting for a couple million while he was still alive

@strangelouvre8557 Жыл бұрын

He is one of the few great artists who actually saw some monetary success while he was alive. Not to the degree for which he sells now, but that price point is partly because he is no longer alive.

@wmurray003 6 жыл бұрын

....WHY would he go to "pawnstars" to sell art?

@samrindge8042 3 жыл бұрын

Those look like the fake Basquiats that Kevin Doyle was selling. The postcards Basquiat made don't looks like this. They were Xerox copies of collages. These look like someone trying to imitate his later canvas paintings.

@terrytrekas5730 2 жыл бұрын

also Basquiat never signed that JMB nonsense on the front.......

@swingaporean Жыл бұрын

Where did you find the info on “Xerox copies of collages”? Thanks!

@d00mboy13 5 жыл бұрын

I would never sell a Basquiat piece dudes crazy.

@charliebaltimore4827 Жыл бұрын

ikr!

@haimo14228 4 жыл бұрын

1:13 Wow, look at the shade lines of the seller. Epic.

@marioskoutras6583 6 жыл бұрын

Painted those in his home last night. The next day in the pawn shop "50 k that's a tough one......let's do it"

@QuinnJACKSON-zx1dx 11 ай бұрын

One of Basquiat's paintings sold for $110,000,000, .....think about that for a minute.

@joseramirez7288 Күн бұрын

At that price, Rick just made the deal of the century!!!

@DynamiteDB 6 жыл бұрын

Rick done heaps well. Basquiat sells like crazy.

@r2d1bicoastal64 5 жыл бұрын

I would have said "I'll give you 2 for 50k but I'm taking all the risk" 🤣🤣

@dfresco6031 3 жыл бұрын

i remember reading about how he’d sell post cards and just seeing a small image. i’ve googled and never been able to find an image. i can’t believe how i missed this

@tminusnyc2915 2 жыл бұрын

Just think... If he would have kept them, they'd be worth $1mil a piece right now. One of his paintings sold for $117mil at the end of 2018.

@timgreenglass 2 жыл бұрын

...the f.b.i. just closed an entire museum exhbition of phony basquiats.

@strangelouvre8557 Жыл бұрын

They're fake

@heroedeleyenda05 6 жыл бұрын

"I dont want to keep going to every pawn shop "(for an extra 100k) = " i have a serious gambling problem, and I need the money now"

@alldayubum 4 жыл бұрын

Hes rocking a big sunglasses line there

@chicagorock 6 жыл бұрын

These are NOT real. JMB's postcards did not involve paint because he could not afford paint at the time. They picture/ xerox and drawing collages. This guy won the day!

@tminusnyc2915 2 жыл бұрын

Bro stop... he stole paint like the rest of the graffiti artists of the 80s in NYC... I know because I was one of them.

@haidarshah 6 жыл бұрын

Of all the deals on the show, this is the saddest of all.

@toddnolastname4485 6 жыл бұрын

The friend of the guy whose art is being sold just happened to be in the experts shop on the day the art is being sold. I think they're right, those who say the show is faked.

@milwaukeebrewers6337 6 жыл бұрын

Todd no last name who said he was with the expert at the time?? And if he was, have you heard of coincidence??? How do you know he didnt call his friend and told him to meet at the pawn shop? You are naive and made assumptions before thinking.

@iii-nightmare-8263 6 жыл бұрын

The expert called in the expert

@yugiohpokemon5285 5 жыл бұрын

Love it or hate it one things for sure. This show is fun to watch.

@patw.6567 5 жыл бұрын

This is cool to see stuff that would end up in Christie’s or Sotheby’s on Pawn Stars

@anthonymorales842 6 жыл бұрын

They never looked at the age of the medium or the amount of oxidation due to age

@ohmahgawdfilms 6 жыл бұрын

he obviously needed money.

@joneybear948 4 жыл бұрын

Those aren’t real, cause the artist never cared for perfection or symmetry but the eyes on the face painting had eyes the same size

@yaniratangoart 6 жыл бұрын

These were all fake Basquiat postcards. Pawn Stars got ripped off. Reasons: Basquiat did not paint on his postcards but drew and used photocopies. He didn't try painting until mid 1981. He also didn't write SAMO © on postcards. He wrote them on walls with Al Diaz (co-creator of SAMO concept). Basquiat also didn't draw crowns or heads on postcards only small texts and photocopy collages. Something wasn't right with this transaction and everyone was probably in on the deal including the pawn shop. Hype!

@killak5712 6 жыл бұрын

yayayaya cocococo the show is fake

@justincrawford2170 6 жыл бұрын

yayayaya cocococo hmmm

@leokoti4064 6 жыл бұрын

yayayaya cocococo lol idiot

@TheSucidalpanda 6 жыл бұрын

Literally Basquiats friend was there to verify that was something he would have done.

@jennifervonholstein6642 6 жыл бұрын

Complete fakes.

@SW-Lopez1980 2 жыл бұрын

There's NO WAY! I would've left & taken them to an Auction or Art Gallery. Rick is always low balling people.

@lloydkennedy4655 7 жыл бұрын

Remember, it's staged!

@akang4009 6 жыл бұрын

How so?

@manuelgm 4 жыл бұрын

The actual worst part of it it's that its real... I wish it was staged

@deprogramr 6 жыл бұрын

he should've tried for at least 60k-75k... 20k-25k a piece, Rick would've done it I think...

@questionblock8949 6 жыл бұрын

every transaction Rick does is a "huge risk".. "im paying 50K but they are worth 150K , im taking a huge risk" lol

@tripleaaa4409 6 жыл бұрын

[?] Question Block “best I can do is 50 bucks man...”

@jalpafett 4 жыл бұрын

They are worth MILLIONS!!!!! EASY.....

@Mr.paint123 5 жыл бұрын

He needed some drugs or was in some serious debt to someone to sell Those for that cheap

@philliportega4902 4 жыл бұрын

I think it was drugs hahaha

@WhiteBandanas 3 жыл бұрын

Crack

@mardoggyo6712 3 жыл бұрын

Can’t believe he let these go for 50K! Wow. Definitely could of made quadruple.

@terrytrekas5730 2 жыл бұрын

he would have made ZERO because Sothebys or Christies would have known in 5 seconds that these were fakes......

@2manyspruces 4 жыл бұрын

He didn’t even try to bargain. Had he done that, I’m sure he could have gotten a little more.

@huseyinozer8470 6 жыл бұрын

damn rick is so tight

@youbestbequiet 5 жыл бұрын

Love that they were forged. This was one of their biggest losses.

@WhiteBandanas 3 жыл бұрын

Doubt it

@gmar7836 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. With no paperwork to prove it

@visionboard1783 2 жыл бұрын

Yes that was to new lookin

@alon403 Жыл бұрын

how can you tell

@youbestbequiet Жыл бұрын

@@alon403 There are a few articles about it.

@allencampbell1058 8 ай бұрын

Smart move is to never give away a Basquiat artpiece, such from a legend and his pieces are rare anyone can paint/draw just like him and call it theirs..

@Theman26642 6 жыл бұрын

Why didn’t he just consign it to an auction house? That’s exactly what Rick was going to do (or did).

@Lifeissimplebro 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine being an expert of your friend

@BiggD1 4 жыл бұрын

Hes like ohh i can buy coke with that!! Lets do it!!

@fjccommish 6 жыл бұрын

NY died in 1988? A 3 year old can make drawings like that.

@jejfcjsksksw1209 4 жыл бұрын

That's not about the paintings, the painter is very succesful and his paintings sold at 100 million $

@TTony-tu6dm 4 жыл бұрын

fjvideo where did you get your degree in art history?

@thomasrainbow Жыл бұрын

But a 3 year old didn't

@dalg5444 5 ай бұрын

Man took that money and ran. He knew they were fake. That's why he took the cash really fast!😂😂😂😂

@hibuddywazsup3739 6 жыл бұрын

This dude wore sunglasses for so long they left a tanline on his face.

@timgann9723 6 жыл бұрын

Anyone else notice the sunglasses tan?

@3rd-Wave_Rebel 7 жыл бұрын

These looked like they were paint by preschooler and they worth 100K+ lol

@OtherM112594 6 жыл бұрын

HOT AIR!!!

@scuffedborgerjimbo6546 7 жыл бұрын

85 percent of the frickin time they reject you and I watched like 50 plus and this is my first time watching something get sold

@captainmarvel9981 6 жыл бұрын

Those are fakes made by a forger named Kevin Doyle. Look him up

@bigbalok 3 жыл бұрын

He lost $150K I think...Those are worth at least 100K each...

@davidrobertson5700 Жыл бұрын

Rick makes 100 grand, just DO NOT EVER DO BUSINESS WITH HIM AND YOU WILL BE OKAY

@eastsidesun4650 5 жыл бұрын

*walks into pawn store with god himself* Me: "10 million" Rick: "best I can do is give you some holy water, I'm taking a risk"

@chaiti1985 5 жыл бұрын

Rick is apparently not a fan of Basquiat.

@QuinnJACKSON-zx1dx 11 ай бұрын

Don't be a fool. If he did like him the guy would've asked for more.

@MidnightSinatra 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldve held onto them for like 2 more years

@Lowqy Жыл бұрын

Bro just got low balled for a fortune

@guthead2320 5 жыл бұрын

that dude with the beegees mouth! lol

@jaramillochris7702 3 жыл бұрын

He took 50K for 3 Basquiat postcards? Uh oh...someone's got a gambling problem!

@robertskinner6487 4 жыл бұрын

Do you have any paper work so I can tell you it,s not reliable

@morna45 6 жыл бұрын

Rick soaks another customer. Each of those could have cleared 100k each now.

@Eltopshottah 2 жыл бұрын

R.I.P Jean

@mrpc562 5 жыл бұрын

Horrible deal. These post cards from Jean-Michel Basquiat can easily get him $500,000 at an auction in a few years.

@Zed6788h 6 жыл бұрын

Those are definitely not JMB

@seankeane7055 4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing when I saw this on TV and the more research I did the more it confirmed haha. I'm a huge Basquiat fan and especially had always been interested in the early postcards because of how young and unknown he was at the time and NONE that i've ever seen looked like those. They took amalgamations of all his whole career and put them together

@jeanmichelbasquiat4444 3 жыл бұрын

100% EBAY FAKES. THEY ARE ALL OVER EBAY FOR 50 BUCKS AND THE NEVER ENDING SUITCASE STORY.

@swingaporean Жыл бұрын

@@seankeane7055 what are the telltale signs that the postcards are a fake? What about those bearing a Gerard Basquiat CoA?

@seankeane7055 Жыл бұрын

@@swingaporean If you google Basquiat postcards you can see that the style he was using at that time for those was completely different. These pre-date his success as a painter. They were done partly as a collaboration with an artist whose name escapes me right now, Jen something? Anyway the style was mostly xeroxes with painted and drawn embellishments. I've seen a bunch of Basquiat exhibitions and am specifically fascinated by the postcard project as there's not as much info out there about them. All the postcards I've seen do not really feature his painting style. The other tell tale sign in these is that SAMO was never something he wrote on paintings. This was an art project with a friend (Al Diaz) that become a graffiti art project. Basquiat eventually ended the project and never carried it over into his studio art. Finally they just don't look quite like Basquiat. As easy as it can be to take his naive style and replicate it, there is a certain quality that these just lack. They seem to just throw the crown, the black faces, SAMO, and the postcard mythology into one cluster of Basquiat tropes. Jean had a bit more style than that

@swingaporean Жыл бұрын

@@seankeane7055 thanks for your reply! (Really) much appreciated :) is there anything you know about the CoA by the estate of JMB, which are signed by Gerard Basquiat (his father)? I’m guessing these are easy to copy too…? Is it known until when Basquiat made these postcards? I have one dated 1983…

@Lipolimtown Жыл бұрын

“Ohhh ignorant art Bruno”

@wmurray003 6 жыл бұрын

I WOULD NOT give those up.

@ericpa06 5 жыл бұрын

Was it just me who thought that was a portrait of Rick from Rick And Morty? haha

@HeartlessTank 5 жыл бұрын

Lmao he got lowballed so bad by Rick.

@donniedoobie9627 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I knew wha I know now and could go back and find him on the street corner in the 80's and buy a whole stack of these from him for like $100😄

@markselzler9744 6 жыл бұрын

Red flag. No paper work

@enedponcy5763 6 жыл бұрын

They are fake, made by forger Kevin Doyle.

@euko7469 6 жыл бұрын

But i mean even if there wasn’t, basquiat was handing out his artwork like candy. It wouldn’t have been too out of the ordinary for a piece of basquiat to randomly surface, even today never before seen SAMO graffitis still sporadically surface in new york lol

@tcorourke2007 6 жыл бұрын

So, setting aside that this is television and tends to distort reality-- selling expensive art to a pawn shop for example --I imagine the seller could have gotten more money from Rick on this deal. Auctions are not guaranteed and commissions would have been deducted from the $150k, so that figure is merely a starting point. The real issue is that the seller did not make Rick adjust his initial offer. The seller came down 21% from his original price and then immediately accepted the $50k without asking what more Rick could pay or even trying to squeeze another $5k out of him. This is just really poor negotiation skills. If Rick was unwilling to offer more, the seller could have always walked away from the deal temporarily to play hardball. I'm sure Rick would have paid the at least same amount the following week, if not more after a week of second guessing himself a bit.

@fedvvvv 7 жыл бұрын

Terrible actor.

@TrillShvt 4 жыл бұрын

Straight up

@xs6819 5 жыл бұрын

One born every minute

@RafaelSantos-in9cr 7 жыл бұрын

it hurts me when people do deals w paanshops specially this one...but nescesaty is a sharp sharp needle.

@ericmccloud7619 4 жыл бұрын

Why you didnt take it to Sothebys

@XDiZzYX911 4 жыл бұрын

Robbing this guy in person should not be illegal in any way after watching this

@Yoisthatabe 4 жыл бұрын

the seller looks like geordi with that tan line

@gmar7836 3 жыл бұрын

I would never bring these little paintings On postcards to a pawnshop dealer! You take these to an art dealer, art auction or maybe Sotheby’s. And of course this guy who owns the pawnshop is not going to pay out 30,000 per painting. Also it is common sense to have paperwork representing the artwork as proof of genuine work. Even if it is the real work from Basquiat. Pawn shop owner lost 50,000, that’s how I see this.

@pappy451 6 жыл бұрын

something like this should have been sent to auction .

@CowpokeCannoneer 6 жыл бұрын

Lol, Marines never make good deals.

@thefool00 4 жыл бұрын

They're called "jarheads" for a reason.

@manuelgm 4 жыл бұрын

Considering they were fake, i think it was a brutally good deal

@rockydee7499 5 жыл бұрын

Finaly they get to wear gloves!!!!

@THEBIGGESTSCUMBAG 6 жыл бұрын

MR. BROWN & I GOT ALONG FAMOUSLY

@charliebaltimore4827 Жыл бұрын

I can't help but agree with anyone who pulls off heists from art dealers

@575forza 6 жыл бұрын

killer sungalsses tan line

@holister444 6 жыл бұрын

He took 50k for something worth 150k? When you consider that he can show no chain of ownership and no documents, I think they are probably fake. How the expert "confirmed" the authenticity was pretty ridiculous. I mean it can't be that hard to imitate how Basquiat did his "M"s and "O"s. and the story. Oh, "He left it on the train". So elaborate. Jeez.

@matthewrreis 6 жыл бұрын

YIKES! Worst deal I've seen on this show yet. Basquiat is a cut above even Warhol as an artist and these postcards would've went gangbusters at an Auction in NYC or LA. I wouldn't have sold them for under $125K.

@dago2 5 жыл бұрын

Mr Brown and I got along famously

@hatednyc 6 жыл бұрын

Would literally MURDER for these. Of all the Basquiat exhibits I've been to I've NEVER seen these

@enedponcy5763 6 жыл бұрын

Really? lol You can buy these fakes from ebay from a seller who goes by gentlemen collector. He makes these fakes trashy cards and sells them for 2 hundred dollars. DO NOT BUY they are 100%FAKE> He has sold over a thousand of these fakes. they look nothing like real basquait postcards. Only a stupid idiot would buy these fakes, so either this show is fake or they are extremley stupid.

@DillonGoldOfficial 6 жыл бұрын

I've seen him on Ebay Gentlemen Collector. Sometimes the postcards sell for $1,500 or more, not only $200.00. He's sold many this month way over the $200.00 price tag.