[C19fan]

Really? Would not pay 80 cents.

[Sans-Culotte]

Should be called “David Spade Contemplating Taking a Dip”.

[Billthedrill]

But who will buy an $80 million painting?

Well, I guess I could make payments if they'd cover the loan.

I mock, but it's a pretty good painting. I'd pay to see it.

[Leaning Right]

> One of David Hockney's famous "pool paintings" is coming to auction and is expected to sell in the $80 million range <

Suckers! I bought this "pool painting" for $6.

[Flick Lives]

High end art auctions are a great means of money laundering.

[MeganC]

$80 million for what is really gay propaganda?

No thanks.

[Robert DeLong]

Not exactly what I would call a work of art for all the ages to come.

[RooRoobird20]

I’ve never heard of David Hockney. This painting is supposed to be up there with Mona Lisa, The Birth of Venus etc? What’s so special about it? I don’t understand.

[Gasshog]

Looking over his body of work I am pretty sure I can paint just as well so I better get busy.

Supposedly this painting is revered for his rendering of moving water, I’ve seen much better. I suspect the brouhaha has more to do with he wanna queen art professor in the 60s. so that means he must be courageous or something.

Way overpriced art.

[MrEdd]

Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse
And a fine coal miner for the NCB that was
A fallen angel and Jesus on the cross
A skating ballerina you should have seen her do the skater's waltz

Some people have got to paint and draw
Harry had to work in clay and stone
Like the waves coming to the shore
It was in his blood and in his bones

Ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds
He might as well have been making toys or strings of beads
He could not be in the gallery

And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all
He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall
The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes
While the dealers they get together
And they decide who gets the breaks
And who's going to be in the gallery

No lies he wouldn't compromise
No junk no bits of string
And all the lies we subsidize
That just don't mean a thing

I've got to say he passed away in obscurity
And now all the vultures are coming down from the tree
So he's going to be in the gallery.

[layman]

What ? Eighty million my butt! This masterpiece is easily worth three or four times that .... closer to 500 million!

[BitWielder1]

I just made a stick figure painting.
It's not that good but it's one of a kind, must be worth at least a trillion.