Flipping art.

[Healthfulness]

Hey! So I have ongoing project/business which obviously needs some capital. As a full time student not really that easy to aquire It, even though I work in two jobs, so I started thinking what I can flip in order to get extra money. Luckily in such first world country as Denmark, thrift shops have great, underpriced stuff, but that's not really high cash flow as 95% stuff is still crap and I don't really wan't to sell old coffee machines for 10$ profit.
Today I believe I found a goldmine, I can get a lot of original, pretty old (20-70 years) paintings, painted by danish artists, they are not the most popular ones, but I get them way cheaper than average price of same artists on facebook marketplace or anywhere else so I can already make a profit, but I wan't to squeeze all the potential profit to maximum. What do you all think about getting as much painting as I can and then trying to put them on auctions? Artists are definitely know by someone really deeply passionate, but I believe they we're not really legendary artists as in that case I could not get them that easily. I see that those work prices go from 100 - 500$ which is many times mores than I get them for.
Anyone has done this? Maybe someone owns art gallery? I'm planning to spend couple hundred and get like 20 of them as by marketplace prices I would multiple my investment atleast 5 times, sure marketplace price doesn't mean people actually buy for that price, but If I get It for 30, but same artists painting in same size, same age and similar frame is on sale for 250 I believe I can get 100-150 with no worries.

 

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[Tiago]

Try it out, see if it works. I know someone who earned half a million dollars flipping a work of art. Just experiment and see if you enjoy/are good at it.

 

[Healthfulness]

Try it out, see if it works. I know someone who earned half a million dollars flipping a work of art. Just experiment and see if you enjoy/are good at it.

Thanks!
I will buy rest of paintings - around 20 for less than 300$ which averages around 15$ for each and they are for sale at average 100$ so I guess I can't really lose, in worst case I will have a lot of cool paintings I will try to bring the best one to the auction If that doesn't work then I will try ebay and my last option would be facebook marketplace.
Actually this is really enjoyable, I love art and hustling, perfect combination, but the problem is that I am doing this in country where I've been for less than a year so I don't know anything about these paintings, artists and I haven't learned language yet, well, costs are low, profit is guaranteed so I will update on how It goes.
If this will result in great profit I know where I could get a lot more of them, but first I need to see that It's actually worth It.