Walkthrough for the quest Avid Collector in the game Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the quest smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Secondary Quests (Hearts of Stone)
Suggested level: 34
Location: Novigrad
To receive this quest, you must talk to Yaromir while waiting for the auction that takes place during the "Open Sesame!" quest and indicate the correct painting - the portrait of the merchant with the pearl, and then buy the van Rogh painting during the auction.
Geralt is often taken for a boor. Nothing could be further from the truth: though rough-and-rowdy in outer appearance, inside Geralt harbors a sensitive appreciation of beauty and the arts. It should then come as no surprise he was able to impress the art merchant he met at the auction. The connoisseur tipped Geralt off about a van Rogh painting soon to go on the block. Apparently Marcus Hodgson, a famed Novigrad book dealer, was ready to pay a small fortune for it...
Marcus T.K. Hodgson
Velen / Novigrad
Go to Marcus T.K. Hodgson who has his store at the Hierarch Square in Novigrad and tell him that you have a painting painted by van Rogh for sale. He will pay you 500 crowns, and also give you the Conserved shaelmaar trophy (5% Bonus gold).
The merchant's assurances proved reliable: Geralt sold the painting at a considerable profit. The ecstatic book dealer also threw in a rare witcher trophy.