Ever since I was a kid growing up in Ogden Utah back in the early 80's, I've been fascinated by the Spanish bullfight. Back in the day I even searched out books on bullfighting at the Weber County library where I found and read "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway. I'm probably the only kid in Utah to have ever read that book. Now here we are 40 years later and I still enjoy learning about and keeping up with the bullfights, as well as learning about the history of the old West.

October 15, 2026

Artist Mark Maggiori comes up big

Back on August 30th I had posted that French artist Mark Maggiori was going to auction off some of his artwork at a special show in Jackson Hole WY. 

I had mentioned that if you wanted to buy one of his original paintings bring some cash, and lots of it. He had sold a couple of paintings the year before at an auction in Austin TX and sold one for $350,000 and the other one for $300,000.

Well, whoever got those paintings in Austin came out like a bandit because at this recent auction one painting was sold for $1,300,000. 

That's right, over a million dollars! 

On Instagram someone had said that that set a new record for a living artist. 

And all the other painting that were auctioned off went for incredibly high amounts. Maybe I should have learned how to paint. 

Another dream shattered. Well, when I was a teenager I dreamed of going to Spain and being a bullfighter and that didn't come close to happening and now here I sit. 

I'm happy for him though, he deserves his success.

Here are more examples of his artwork.






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