David Hockney masterpiece sells for $90M with the British painter, 81, smashing the record [tr]

Reuters ^ | November 16, 2018 | Staff

[C19fan]

Would have to pay me to hang that homoerotic art in my house.

[Jonty30]

I really don’t get the idea of paying millions of dollars for classic artworks, when you can just as easily get nice paintings for $60 to hang on walls.

[Huaynero]

It would’na hang at my place nor any place I’d care to go. Proves the old saying that “some people have more money than sense”.

[bigtoona]

It’s how the elite move and launder money.

[SMGFan]

I thought it was the first person to come across a drowning victim in his pool.

The background valley image looks nice. Would make a nice 1000 piece puzzle.

[Louis Foxwell]

It is absolutely remarkable that work as technically immature as this has any value at all. There are living artists who have no fame whose work challenges the Masters. This particular painting demonstrates that art is, indeed, symbolism, by portraying effete androgynous life.

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s hard for me to believe that a work like this will be valued at all in 300 years.

[RoosterRedux]

Or get a facsimile of the famous art. I have a Mark Rothko knock off in my living room and it cost me only $80 and looks like the real thing.

[Jewbacca]

Concur. Looks really gay.

[kaboom]

I call the masterpiece “Underwear swimming at David Spades”

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

Its not my taste, but he gets half credit for creating a painting where people are depicted as recognizably human. It at least isn’t more abstract, symbolic BS.

[niteowl77]

Hockney has been overrated for at least 40 years, but there is nothing like buying stuff such as this to establish certain sub-cultural credentials and conspicuously consume at the same time.

The "ah-h-ht wuh-h-hld" is a strange and frequently creepy place with a byzantine pecking order; never drop a bar of soap if you happen to get thrown in it.

[Flick Lives]

It’s how the elite move and launder money.

Yup.

Dirty Money - buy -> Art Work - sell -> "Clean" Money

[VietVet876]

It was his butt-boy.

[rlmorel]

I never really thought of that before, but that makes more sense than everything I have been able to conjure up.

That, and these people really are deranged. It mentioned a sculpture that sold for 50 million dollars called “Balloon Dog”, so I had to look that up.

Sheesh. After reading your post, then seeing THAT, I had to say “Well, bigtoona is spot on there.”

[rlmorel]

"...never drop a bar of soap if you happen to get thrown in it..."

One look at the picture of the "artist" they had at the website completely confirmed that.

[kanawa]

Looks like a screen grab from a cheap video game.

[nwrep]

The artist is openly gay.

[Orbiter]

Ain’t noone got the pixur?

[Heart of Georgia]

“homoerotic”

I agree. Man in pool with teenager/boy watching makes me think a member of nambla was the purchaser. Also believe the the two tall background trees are symbolic.