“Jobs with iPhone” painting sells for more than “Steve Jobs and the apple” painting

I had written an article back in April about how the iPhone buzz had caught the art world as well, as an iPhone painting was sold at eBay for US $410. We recently had another painting (in my opinion a better one) of "Steve Jobs and the apple" by the same artist which was also auctioned at eBay but for a lesser price. So did the buzz surrounding the iPhone release make the difference?

These are the words of artist about the "Steve Jobs and the iPhone" painting: "This painting is filled with that goose-bump moment when Jobs unleashed the iPhone at MacWorld Expo 2007. Deep down you know the iPhone is going to be as big. This painting encapulates that techno-moment in history, and now it can be yours to grace your walls and feast your eyes upon."

The significance of this event as we all know was the announcement of the Apple iPhone which could usher the mobile phone industry into the iPhone era. "The Era BI: time Before the iPhone, and the ERA AI: time After the iPhone" as predicted by Tomi Ahonen of "Communities Dominate Brands" blog.

The above painting was sold at eBay for US $410. The painting was only 5”x7”. For more details on the auction on eBay, click here.

And this last one does suggest (thankfully) that Steve Jobs does add a lot of value to Apple, where the painting of just the "iPhone" (read without Steve Jobs) was sold for lesser than the above two paintings.