Consider this.....

Let it be known across the land,
 That the images cast by this very hand,
If refused as daily bread,
Will all be gone once im dead.

what happened to the late Robert Lenkiewicz was really nothing short of a tragedy, the immediate repute and commercial value of the Artist after he died was so immediate , so heart breaking really as to warrant a reflective thought !

I remember reading about another artist from the region ( although actually I forget his name now ) but this particular artist had generated quite a body of work and a suitable reputation to boot ..... and he left instruction for all of his unsold work to be destroyed when he died , as a means of attempting to prevent exactly this kind of thing happening....... a notion that really appeals to me !!