Posted on 09/13/2018 8:50:35 AM PDT by C19fan
One of David Hockney's famous "pool paintings" is coming to auction and is expected to sell in the $80 million range, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction.
The British artist's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)," to be auctioned at Christie's in November, is considered one of his premier works. Christie's has estimated the work at about $80 million, but says it expects it to sell for more.
The previous record for a work by a living artist was set by Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog," which sold for $58.4 million in 2013.
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It is a poster painting. It looks like it could be duplicated with colored paper and scissors.
Indeed.
When I was little I saw a guy in the water at a motel pool that looked like that. Turns out he was drowned. I told my dad aboud the guy in the pool who wasn’t swimming. He told me to go into the room and he ran toward the pool. He wouldn’t talk about it later so I don’t know what happened.
I don't see a snuff can in his hand.
I used to mock him as the favorite artist for rich people who thought modern art was crap, but who still felt compelled to buy something that was officially sanctioned by the (begin stretched out upper-crust accent) "aht wuld."
Triple LOL
I’ll give you 9 bucks and a stale donut for it.
How so?
Looked better without the dead body. I’ll bid 2$.
In Manhattan we call it a “gnaw”.
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