The Living Art series is a set of six Roblox Limited neck accessories (a Limited is an item Roblox no longer sells, with a fixed number of copies that players resell and trade), each one a framed famous painting with a hole ripped through the canvas for your avatar's head. Roblox published the first two in 2010 and three more between 2015 and 2016, all of them cheap catalog items priced at 250 Robux or less. The sixth was never sold to anyone. Living Art: Starry Night went to the winners of a 2013 fan art contest, only nine copies exist, and it trades in the platform's gem tier (a gem is a scarce, high-value Limited) while the rest of the family changes hands for about the price of a mid-tier UGC hat.
Quick answer: Living Art is Roblox's own line of six painting-frame neck Limiteds released between 2010 and 2016. Five were sold openly for 250 Robux or less and are still cheap; Starry Night, a nine-copy 2013 contest prize with a 350,000 RAP, is the one worth serious money.
| Living Art at a glance | |
|---|---|
| What it is | Six Roblox Limited neck accessories, each a famous painting with a head hole |
| First release | Living Art: Abstract on March 20, 2010 at 175 Robux |
| Last Limited release | Living Art: A New President on February 11, 2016 at 76 Robux |
| Rarest | Living Art: Starry Night, nine copies, a contest prize never sold in the catalog |
| Highest RAP | Starry Night at 350,000 Robux |
| Cheapest floor | A New President at 2,999 Robux |
| Resale fee | 30% to Roblox on any classic Limited |
What is the Living Art series? Six painting-frame neck accessories, five of them on one mesh
Every Living Art item is a neck accessory shaped like a painting your avatar has stuck its head through, the way a seaside photo board works. The community wiki explains the name in one line: the portraits are worn by living avatars.
Roblox built almost the whole line from a single mesh (the mesh is the 3D shape, and the texture is the picture painted onto it). Community item records list the same mesh asset behind Abstract, The Scream, Psychadelic Pop Art, Number Four and A New President, with only the texture swapped between them. That makes Living Art a retexture family in the same sense as Sparkle Time or Bluesteel, except the shared shape is a picture frame rather than a finish. Starry Night is the odd one out and sits on its own mesh.
The catalog descriptions are where the series won its fans. The Scream's reads "Scream is what the curator at the Munch Museum would do if you did this to his priceless work of art." Number Four quotes Jackson Pollock: "Every good painter paints what he is." A New President arrived during the 2016 US primary season with "A president is you! Elect every zig," folding an old internet meme into a campaign slogan.
One structural detail matters if you collect. Community records list the five catalog releases as Limited Unique items, which means each copy carries a serial number (a number stamped on the copy that shows where it came in the run), while Starry Night was granted plain Limited status with no serials. Our guide to Roblox Limited serial numbers covers what that difference is worth.
Every Living Art Limited, ranked by trader value
Six items carry Limited status. The table is ordered by trader consensus on street value, meaning the rough price experienced traders agree an item is worth in a trade. RAP is Recent Average Price, Roblox's smoothed running average of an item's recent sale prices. Copies is how many of the item exist. The lowest resale ask is the cheapest copy anyone currently has listed, which traders call the floor. Figures are live from RBX Invest as of the publish date.
| Item | Released | Copies | RAP | Lowest resale ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Living Art: Starry Night |
Nov 2012 | 9 | 350,000 | none (placeholder listing only) |
 Living Art: The Scream |
Apr 2010 | 947 | 11,170 | 19,499 |
 Living Art: Number Four |
Jan 2016 | 598 | 9,032 | 7,776 |
 Living Art: Psychadelic Pop Art |
Nov 2015 | 950 | 7,148 | 5,499 |
 Living Art: Abstract |
Mar 2010 | 1,385 | 5,506 | 6,500 |
 Living Art: A New President |
Feb 2016 | 1,779 | 3,543 | 2,999 |
Below the top row, the value order and the RAP order agree, which is what you expect from items that still trade regularly. Starry Night is the one that breaks the pattern. Its RAP of 350,000 comes from a tiny number of very old sales, and traders price it far above that figure, in the same bracket as the platform's other single-digit-copy items. RAP is an exponentially smoothed average across an item's entire sale history, so on an item that has sold a handful of times in fourteen years it only describes the past.
Living Art: Starry Night, the nine-copy contest gem
Roblox created the asset on November 6, 2012 and used it as a prize the following spring. The Roblox Fan Art Contest ran from March 1 to March 10, 2013 and asked users to make Roblox-themed art in any medium and email it in. Community records credit eight winners, with prizes handed out between March 18 and May 1, 2013, and they note a ninth copy whose origin nobody has explained. Our data confirms the part that matters to a buyer: nine copies, and no way to make more.
The item description has never been updated. It still reads "This item is being awarded to winners of the 2013 ROBLOX Fan Art contest," which is why a developer forum bug report exists asking Roblox to fix it. Community records date its Limited status to May 31, 2016, more than three years after the last copy was handed out. An item that is no longer sold or given away is offsale, and Roblox sometimes turns such items into Limiteds long afterward, a pattern we cover in how offsale items become Limiteds.
There is no genuine ask on it. The only standing listing is a 50 million Robux placeholder, which is how holders at this tier say that a copy is not for sale. Anyone shopping here works from the rarest Limiteds collection and negotiates in private.
The 2010 originals: Abstract and The Scream
Living Art: Abstract
The one that started the line, published March 20, 2010 at 175 Robux against a stock of 1,500. It never sold out. RBX Invest tracks 1,385 copies today, and Roblox ran a catalog advertisement for it the following month. It is the more plentiful of the two 2010 releases, and its lowest ask of 6,500 sits above its RAP of 5,506, which on a 1,385-copy item means the cheap listings have already been bought up.
Living Art: The Scream
The Scream followed in April 2010 at 200 Robux with a stock of 1,000, of which 947 copies exist. It carries the highest RAP of the five catalog items and the widest gap between RAP and floor of any Living Art item with a live market: 19,499 asked against 11,170 RAP. On a 947-copy item, a spread like that usually means the cheap copies got cleared out and whoever is left is in no hurry to sell. Treat the ask as the real price and the RAP as a lagging indicator.
The 2015 and 2016 revival: three items in fifteen months
Roblox left the series alone for five years, then published three items in fifteen months.
Living Art: Psychadelic Pop Art
November 19, 2015, 200 Robux, 950 copies. It has 4,395 favorites, second only to Starry Night in the family, and a 5,499 floor against a 7,148 RAP, the deepest discount to RAP in the family. Plenty of demand signal, no scarcity behind it.
Living Art: Number Four
The scarcest of the five catalog releases at 598 copies. Roblox created the asset on December 24, 2015 and sold it in January 2016 at 250 Robux. The launch went wrong: community records describe buyers paying and not receiving the item, complaints demanding refunds, and a moderator thread promising a fix before the problem was sorted out. The low copy count is at least partly a result of that mess.
Its floor also sits under its RAP, 7,776 against 9,032. Gaps like that are exactly what the Deals feed exists to surface, though on an item this thin a single sale moves RAP more than it moves the floor.
Living Art: A New President
February 11, 2016, 76 Robux, the cheapest launch price in the family and the largest supply at 1,779 copies. It is the entry-level Living Art item and it is priced like one, with a 2,999 floor under a 3,543 RAP.
The 2024 postscript: Living Art: User Ads, free and not a Limited
Roblox published one more Living Art item on June 19, 2024, and gave it away free. Living Art: User Ads is not a Limited, so it does not gain value and never will, but it is the first new entry in the series since 2016 and it exists to mark a platform funeral. Roblox had announced days earlier that User Ads were being sunset, with June 16, 2024 the last day advertisers could create one and June 17 the last day any were shown on the site. The commemorative frame went up two days after that.
It has been favorited more than 208,000 times in our data, which dwarfs every Limited in the family and is a fair measure of how much of the item's appeal is nostalgia.
Why do UGC creators use the Living Art name? They are homages
UGC stands for user-generated content: items made by independent creators rather than by Roblox. Since late 2023, those creators have published a run of UGC Limiteds using the "Living Art:" prefix, covering everything from Guernica to Windows wallpaper. All of them are homages from outside Roblox's series, mostly issued in single-digit or low-double-digit quantities through code drops and gift events, and their RAPs sit in the hundreds or low thousands. Living Art: GODs, a 10-copy December 2023 release, is among the more traded of them at a 2,431 RAP.
Two things to keep straight before you buy one. First, several carry asks that have nothing to do with any sale history, including an 8-copy piece listed at 100,000 Robux against a RAP of 234. On a market that thin, a listing is an opinion. Second, name overlap is a known trap, and our own item table holds more than twice as many UGC pieces carrying the name as it does Roblox originals. Check the creator and the asset id before you buy, the same discipline covered in our guide to fake Limiteds and name-squatting. Also remember that UGC Limiteds cannot be traded, only resold through the Marketplace, so they will never appear in a trade offer the way the classic six can (classic Limiteds are the ones Roblox itself made, and those can be traded).
What drives value in the Living Art family? Distribution, copy count and wearability
Distribution. The 2010 items are among the oldest neck accessories on the platform and they still trade in the single-digit thousands. Starry Night arrived two and a half years later and is worth orders of magnitude more, because it was never sold. Nothing else in the series comes close to that dividing line.
Copy count. Under the top row, the family sorts almost perfectly by supply once you set The Scream's cleared floor aside. 598 copies beats 950 beats 1,385 beats 1,779.
Wearability, or the lack of it. A picture frame around your avatar's head is a joke item, and joke items have a low demand ceiling. That caps the catalog five in a way a fedora or a crown never gets capped, and it is the main reason a 2010 Limited with under 1,000 copies still costs less than 20,000 Robux.
Collector's outlook: cheap old Limiteds that rarely move
The five catalog items are among the cheapest genuinely old Limiteds you can buy, and that is the case for owning them. Sub-1,000-copy 2010 items under 20,000 Robux are not common, and the whole set of five can be put together for a fraction of what one mid-tier classic hat costs. Number Four is the most interesting of them: the lowest supply, a floor currently sitting under RAP, and a launch story that explains why the supply is low.
Do not expect movement. These have been quiet for years, they are neck accessories in a market that pays for headwear, and nothing about the series is scheduled to change. Screen them from the items leaderboard or browse comparable pieces in the classic back and neck accessories collection, and if you want the whole family in one view, most of it sits inside Limiteds under 10,000 Robux.
Starry Night is a different conversation entirely and belongs in the same bucket as any other nine-copy item: private sales, long silences, and a RAP that tells you almost nothing. Community records suggest not all nine copies sit on active accounts, which tightens an already closed market.
On the fee side, reselling any classic Limited costs 30% to Roblox, leaving you 70% of the sale price, so a flip (buying a copy to resell it) has to sell for roughly 1.43x what you paid before you have made anything. On items with floors this low, that math eats most of the upside. This is not financial advice, and thin markets swing hard on single sales.
Copy counts, RAP figures, asks and favorite counts in this article come from RBX Invest data as of the publish date. Release dates, contest details and the Number Four launch story come from community item records; the outdated-description report and the User Ads sunset notice come from the Roblox developer forum.
FAQ
What is the rarest Living Art item?
Living Art: Starry Night, with nine copies. It was awarded to winners of the Roblox Fan Art Contest held March 1 to 10, 2013 and was never sold in the catalog. The next scarcest is Living Art: Number Four at 598 copies.
How much is Living Art: Starry Night worth?
Its RAP is 350,000 Robux, but there is no genuine listing, only a 50 million Robux placeholder ask. Traders price it well above RAP, in line with other single-digit-copy Limiteds. Check the Starry Night item page for live figures.
How many Living Art items did Roblox make?
Seven in total: six Limiteds (Abstract and The Scream from 2010; Psychadelic Pop Art from 2015; Number Four and A New President from 2016; plus the Starry Night contest prize) and Living Art: User Ads, a free non-Limited from 2024.
Are Living Art items still obtainable?
The six Limiteds only through resale. Living Art: User Ads, the free 2024 entry, is not a Limited and is still available at no cost, so it is the one piece of the series anyone can add to an inventory directly.
What is the cheapest Living Art Limited?
Living Art: A New President. It launched at 76 Robux in February 2016, has the largest supply at 1,779 copies, and its floor is 2,999 Robux against a 3,543 RAP.
Why are Living Art Limiteds cheaper than other 2010 items?
Supply and wearability. The 2010 releases were sold openly at 175 and 200 Robux with stocks in the thousands, and a picture frame worn around the neck has a narrower audience than a hat. Age alone has never carried a Roblox item's price.
Can you trade Living Art items?
The six Roblox-made Limiteds are classic Limiteds and can be traded or resold. The UGC items that borrow the name cannot be traded at all, only resold through the Marketplace.
Are the UGC items named "Living Art" part of the series?
No. Roblox published six Living Art Limiteds plus one free 2024 item. Everything else carrying the name is a community-made UGC Limited from 2023 onward, unconnected to the original line and priced on its own.