How many Robert Girrard paintings did Thomas Kinkade paint?
To the best of our knowledge, Thomas Kinkade created 71 original Girrard works, including 69 oil paintings and two pencil drawings. In the Spring 2002 edition of The Beacon’ *, there was an article about the Robert Girrard’ Collection which referred to it as a collection of masterpieces’ and very rare’ artworks. Who owns the Robert Girrard’ Collection and what is it worth? The Thomas Kinkade Company, formerly Media Arts Group, Inc. *, owns the publishing rights to the Robert Girrard’ Collection with the exception of An Evening Out’, Boating Day’ and Paris Snowfall’. We do not know what value The Thomas Kinkade Company has placed on these rights, but we do know that their value is substantial. Most original Girrard’ artworks remain in the hands of private collectors and, collectively, are worth millions of dollars.
