The Latest Ingenious Fundraising Idea-School Art Auctions Including Work by Pupils and Turner Prize Winners

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Should you sell your child's works of art? Should you commercially market the innocent outpourings of your offspring; and if you're going to flog the stuff, how should you value their delightful daubs anyway? I know Picasso took a lifetime to learn how to paint like a child, but if you are already a child, it doesn't follow that you are a Picasso.

Two of the junior Millards go to Islington's Hanover Primary School, and these questions arose because of a school art auction. These events are ingenious fundraisers, and quite the thing in east London schools at the moment, probably because of the many artists and galleries already there. The idea is that the school puts on an …