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Stunned gasps fill Sotheby's auction room after greedy experts made terrible mistake with '$70m' sculpture
UK Daily Mail ^
| May 15, 2025
| Laura Parnby
Posted on 05/15/2025 2:13:50 PM PDT by C19fan
Sotheby's famed auction room was filled with gasps followed by shocked silence after an iconic statue priced far too ambitiously failed to sell at auction.
Billionaires descended on the New York City event on Tuesday in the hope of snagging a masterpiece created by the likes of Picasso, Monet or Matisse.
But it was Alberto Giacometti's 1955 bronze bust, called Grand tête mince, that was billed as the auction's centerpiece by experts who gave it a $70 million guide price.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: albertogiacometti; art; auction; moremoneythanbrains; moremoneythantaste; sothebys; statue
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Would not even want it as a paper weight.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:13:50 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:16:55 PM PDT
by
Craftmore
To: C19fan
Damn, it's a skinny O'Bastard.
"I bid $70."
"Did I hear $70 MILLION?"
"No, I bid $70. Seventy."
I lost.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:20:34 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: C19fan
I saw the same thing at Walmart Garden Center for $10.99
😜🤪😛
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:21:41 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: C19fan
Further evidence that high-priced auctions are for money laundering, especially for “art” that looks essentially worthless.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:22:42 PM PDT
by
Lizavetta
To: ProtectOurFreedom
They Hoped for more Change. 🤪🤪🤪
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:22:57 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: C19fan
Anything is worth only what someone will pay for it.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:23:28 PM PDT
by
GMMC0987
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:24:59 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Our company artist (medical illustration) can make much better sculptures than that.
I still have some of his illustrations I should sell for several million.
Thank goodness we make ear, nose, throat devices and not devices for proctology.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Good night nurse! That’s disgusting n
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:27:29 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:29:01 PM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: packagingguy
The proctology ones would sell great in some circles.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:30:01 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
"No, I bid $70. Seventy." So that was you! I bid $11.98.......
To: GMMC0987
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:33:40 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom; dfwgator
“Savage little thing, isn’t it?”
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:35:13 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
To: C19fan
Reminds me…. Watch the movie Red Violin tonight. Or, over weekend. Fantastic story, well done.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:36:45 PM PDT
by
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:39:07 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
To: C19fan
Modern art is mostly trash. If I have to interpret it, it is crap. Who and why would this even remotely be worth $70 million. Made in 1955.
You got ancient works from the masters that don’t sell for that much...
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:39:13 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
To: Lizavetta
Had a friend of mine that said that that was where the CIA laundered their money years ago. I am starting to believe him now.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:40:28 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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