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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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To: lapsus calami
The funny thing is that is an actual ancient work and it would probably sell for less than $70 million dollars.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:41:30 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
To: C19fan
McDonalds will sue for copyright infringement..
To: SaveFerris
I saw the same thing at Walmart Garden Center for $10.99
😜🤪😛
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I saw it, too. It’s supposed to scare off the birds and little kids from the garden. It’s ugly enough. Lol
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:44:38 PM PDT
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:46:39 PM PDT
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: C19fan
Zippy the Pinhead, upon his release from Buchenwald prison camp?
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:47:18 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: laplata
It will work!!
More effective with The Wookie Head for a two-level effect
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:48:49 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: laplata
Mrs. Armstrong: I sense great vulnerability, a man-child crying out for love, an innocent orphan in the postmodern world.
Mr. Armstrong: I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges.
Mrs. Armstrong: His struggle is man’s struggle. He lifts my spirit.
Mr. Armstrong: He is a loathsome, offensive brute... yet I can’t look away.
Mrs. Armstrong: He transcends time and space.
Mr. Armstrong: He sickens me.
Mrs. Armstrong: I love it.
Mr. Armstrong: Me too.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:49:39 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator; gundog
A loathsome creature.
It disgusts me.
Yet I cannot look away.
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:50:54 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: dfwgator
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:51:17 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: dfwgator
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:51:54 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: lapsus calami
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posted on
05/15/2025 2:54:10 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: SaveFerris
Wookie Head? Are we talking Chewbacca from Star Wars? Or Michelle Obama?
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:00:44 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: C19fan
I feel the owner’s pain. I priced my toad sculpture below at $12 million. It went at auction for 48 cents. 🙁
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:03:55 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(It’s morning in America. Again.)
To: SaveFerris
Would not be surprised if that was where the actual inspiration came from. Picked off and plagiarized the look of the moai to a modern twist.
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:04:07 PM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: dfwgator
Sorry, I don’t get it unless it was from an episode.
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:07:48 PM PDT
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: packagingguy
“…not devices for proctology.”
Could be worse, I suppose. You get assigned to the ED Device team.
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:08:32 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: lapsus calami
No kidding! What a resemblance.
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:09:16 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:10:59 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It sure does look like him. Some lib thought that it was worth $70mil. LOL!
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:12:20 PM PDT
by
stevio
(Fight until you die!)
To: GMMC0987
In an auction it takes two
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posted on
05/15/2025 3:13:51 PM PDT
by
cableguymn
(Can't cancel all of us)
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