Rachel Ruysch, Still life with flowers in a vase on a ledge with a dragonfly, caterpillar, and butterfly, 1698.
$92M
That’s nothing compared to basket case.
I see the Botticelli portrait went for $92.2 million. I’m very disappointed. And that’s because I was sure I was going to get it with my bid of $91.5 million.
Oh, well. Maybe next time.
Thanks for posting. I admired great art many times at the Detroit Institute of Arts...right across the street from the Wayne St. University campus that I attended. It was my favorite place to go when I had long breaks between classes...or go there just to study in the magnificent rooms.
It is truly an experience. I highly recommend it to anyone near an art institute.
Dang!
I was planning on getting that for my bedroom...
Probably should have increased my bid of $100...
Color me not very impressed.
So, did a group on Reddit drive the price up?
Weirdest one was the modern art museum in Kassel, Germany. They had an exhibit...gnomes in chocolate. Can't find a picture but it was German garden gnome
in a 2 1/2 foot block of chocolate .
Stupidest museum ever.
One room was just some modern artist signing the stuff he had laying around the house.
I had the opportunity to get a velvet Malcom X in Anacostia DC in 1992. But being a cracker it probably would not have worked out.