Man Ray Work Could Become Most Expensive Photograph Ever Sold at Auction in ‘Unprecedented’ Sale

ARTnews ^ | February 15, 2022 | Angelica Villa

[nickcarraway]

[Magnum44]

A tramp stamp in 1924?

[Vermont Lt]

I never cared for this stuff. That is pretty much an “old school cool” meme. I doubt if the buyer is going to recoup his money in the next decade or so.

[Kevmo]

I don’t ‘get’ art. Where is this guy when you need him?

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[Williams]

It shows the f holes?

Guess I don’t know my violins.

[Mark]

Hunter Biden is an artist!

[mylife]

f-holes? porn

[Fester Chugabrew]

“I’m your wicked Uncle Ernie . . .”

[Steely Tom]

I think Thomas Dolby imitated this picture in one short scene in the video for Blinded Me With Science.

[Tell It Right]

New mascot for the Biden crack pipes.

[rlmorel]

Dolby is a far left moonbat dork, but I sure did love that album. One of my favorites.

But he is a moonbat. Saw him in concert once way back when, and he sure made that keyboard sound like a trombone.

[Wiser now]

It’s easy. The same principal that rules the progressive “elites” in politics, rules the “elites” of the “art” world. It’s all about the pretentions of the “in crowd”.
It’s art because they say it is, and if you don’t see it, then you aren’t one of them, and you aren’t an elite.
Some rich but basically foolish elite will purchase this for an absurd price and his “friends” will ohh and ahh over his waste of money and he will feel very smug and important. Then he will go to a party and hold forth about how the Republicans aren’t caring for the poor.

[Kevmo]

If only I could harness that much stupidity.

[cranked]

Ugh, okie dokie.....

[TnTnTn]

5-7 million dollars for THAT!!!???that certainly verifies that some people have more cents than sense…lol

[algore]

Hey Man, Ray wants his Woman to have proper F-holes

How else can you make her sing?

[atc23]

Those “F” cuts eventually led investigators with LAPD to the trail of Dr George Hodel, a very close friend of Man Ray and prime suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short ( The Black Dahlia )

Among the other related knife butchery suffered by the victim, on her back were “F” cuts similar to this Man Ray work.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

I understand art is subjective, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

But how can this be a more valuable photograph than some of Ansel Adams best work?

[bigbob]

I think a violin that looks like a woman’s backside would be Moe interesting.