Posted on 05/22/2017 10:15:32 AM PDT by C19fan
Joining the rarefied $100 million-plus club in a salesroom punctuated by periodic gasps from the crowd, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful 1982 painting of a skull brought $110.5 million at Sotheby’s, to become the sixth most expensive work ever sold at auction. Only 10 other works have broken the $100 million mark.
“He’s now in the same league as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso,” said the dealer Jeffrey Deitch, an expert on Basquiat.
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Let the fools invest in crap art.
Think I’ll take up painting...
No one wants the crap, especially for anywhere near what you paid.
Looks like a guy with a Princess Leia bun on one side.
that particular picture looks like something a child would do.
“The sale of the painting, “Untitled,” made...”
Just titled: “Dog crap”.
“that particular picture looks like something a child would do.”
I agree. It just leaves me just scratching my head.
“Think I’ll take up painting...”
Make sure you identify as black and start living as a homosexual too. That’s the only REAL reason why Basquiat became “famous”. Also, you’ll need to have an idiot’s haircut, and die of a heroin overdose at age 27.
On the bright side, no actual artistic talent is needed.
Yep, looks like inner-city ghetto graffiti......
I’m reminded of the river, the rock, the snake
Oh, wait. Maybe he wasn’t gay. I must have been thinking of some other no talent “artist”.
Another perverse, unexpected consequence of our unbacked, totally fiat, centrally-controlled Federal Reserve currency.
There is a giant graffiti covered boulder near the highway turnoff to my place that looks a lot like that. I wonder how much they would pay for that. It should be worth a lot more since it is 30 times bigger in area, and in 3-D.
“...invest...”?
The story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” comes to mind....
Fortunately, I don’t need to pay inflated prices for the unique and exquisite art that decorates MY home.
For example, “The Yellow Bird”, a vivid piece in the style of Paul Klee, was a gift, so its cost to me was “zero”.
“The Yellow Bird” is a finger-painting by my grandson, when he was three. I consider its value to be “priceless”.
I cannot prove it but I believe modern art was invented to launder money.
That is the only plausible explanation I can think of.
There is no talent demonstrated in that pic.
A waste of paint and canvas
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