Posted on 05/16/2019 3:36:49 AM PDT by C19fan
A sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million at an auction organized by Christie's in New York -- a record price for a living artist. "Rabbit", a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, was the star of the auction house's spring sale and overtook the previous record set by British painter David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)", which sold last November at Christie's for $90.3 million.
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Koons is a designer. He hires craftsmen to actually sculpt his pieces.
So who is the artist who made this?
Looks like a Pokémon to me.
The buyer was either an idiot who inherited the money, or it’s a form of non-cash payment for some other purpose, with the rabbit just being a legal proxy for the transfer.
Money laundering.
Looks like a Japanese Pokémon character.
Money laundering, or else some people have entirely too much money.
You beat me to it but good to see I’m not the only one who saw that.
“Art”, helping to find the rich and retarded, “art”.
A fool and his money....
So who is the artist who made this?
This is true in many creative fields. An individual has the vision but often requires skilled craftsmen to bring it to light.
Energizer bunny.
Sorry. I obviously didn’t look at posts carefully enough.
Who says that modern art is a scam?
The valuation of art obviously often doesn’t seem to make any sense. If you have time, watch the documentary “Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollack” (99 cent rental on iTunes, probably could find it free somewhere online).
Who says that modern “art” is a scam? This guy — Paul Joseph Watson — expresses it better than most.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KzNVpOopOAji/
The one thing one must understand about the art market...
Price has very little to do with quality.
no, little details.
It's how super rich people launder their money. They'll donate it later and value that "loss" at $150 million to set off the gains from some other asset sale. The galleries, museum curators and auctioneers are all in on it.
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