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Recognize This Man? The Art World Doesn't
The New York Times ^ | May 6, 2006 | Carol Vogel

Posted on 05/08/2006 9:56:19 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor

...This unidentified bidder at Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday bid $95.2 million for a Picasso and $2.5 million for a Chagall. Yesterday that man's face was being sent by e-mail around the world, as art dealers and collectors frenziedly speculated on his identity. He ended up spending $102.7 million, for a 1941 Picasso portrait, "Dora Maar With Cat." ...an 1883 Monet seascape for $5 million...a Chagall, a 1978 biblical scene, for which the man paid $2.5 million

But who was he? Sotheby's has refused to say. It is unclear whether he was acting for a client or buying for himself.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: art; batman; chagall; chatroom; dbcooper; johngalt; kaisersoze; monet; okcjohndoenumber2; picasso; theplameleaker; therealdeepthroat; touristguy
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To: itsamelman

BEST LAUGH OF THE DAY!!!


21 posted on 05/08/2006 10:23:23 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: itsamelman; All
We already went through the "this art is cr%p" bit on this earlier thread. I'm not going to repeat my posts again. (Essentially, this is a very nice work of synthetic cubism, but no artwork is worth $95 million).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626453/posts

But I do want to add that I'm getting really sick of the dogs playing poker on almost every challenging art thread I post. Don't the dogs do anything else?

22 posted on 05/08/2006 10:23:44 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: LIConFem
Or the dogs playing poker... that's my fav!

Oh yea. One of those "ladies I'm available" pieces of art.

23 posted on 05/08/2006 10:23:48 AM PDT by Niteranger68 ("Only 4 out of 3 Democrats actually vote.")
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To: itsamelman

Hmmmmmm. A signed and numbered Tippy the Turtle sketch... I bid eleventy kajillion bazillion dollars.

24 posted on 05/08/2006 10:24:39 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: Republicanprofessor
But I do want to add that I'm getting really sick of the dogs playing poker on almost every challenging art thread I post. Don't the dogs do anything else?



25 posted on 05/08/2006 10:26:00 AM PDT by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: Republicanprofessor
no artwork is worth $95 million

This one is, but it doesn't do either the artist or art a bit of good. It's just another commercial item and the purchaser is an investor, not an art patron.

26 posted on 05/08/2006 10:27:23 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: Republicanprofessor

That's my dad! (I wish!) :)


27 posted on 05/08/2006 10:29:05 AM PDT by derllak
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To: Republicanprofessor
I lightened this buyers photo on photoshop...thought the guy looked Russian (but who knows).

As to overpaying for the painting, he wasn't bidding against himself so there was at least one other party who also thought this painting's value was near the final price.

It is also possible that his appearance as a novice might have discouraged some bidders (much to his advantage).

In his photo, he doesn't look drunk or insane...I would guess there was method to his appearance of madness.

28 posted on 05/08/2006 10:31:25 AM PDT by Dark Skies
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To: Republicanprofessor

You need the big rubber "SOLD" stamp in red ink on it.


29 posted on 05/08/2006 10:37:07 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: MPJackal
"We are going to make a killing on this painting."


30 posted on 05/08/2006 10:38:14 AM PDT by jdm
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To: Republicanprofessor

31 posted on 05/08/2006 10:38:27 AM PDT by kenth
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To: itsamelman
LOL! When he left home, our youngest took the framed dogs/poker picture (that had hung in his room as a joke) with him and hung it on his garage wall. It is supposed to be passed on to all younger sons! We habitually make instant "family heirlooms" of the tackiest dang things. And then we "gift" each other with them at inappropriate occasions.

Now, isn't there a pic like this but with cats? Don't bother posting it, I hate cats and would probably have to photoshop it and further disrupt this serious art thread.
32 posted on 05/08/2006 10:38:32 AM PDT by blu (People, for God's sake, think for yourselves)
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To: jdm

heh...


33 posted on 05/08/2006 10:38:48 AM PDT by kenth
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To: Republicanprofessor

MISSING: Sergi Girstolov, seen above, was last seen at an auction in New York City. Girstolov often plays table tennis (and carries his paddle everywhere) and suffers from Touretts syndrome.
34 posted on 05/08/2006 10:40:17 AM PDT by smith288 (goBIGnetwork.com - You a startup?)
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To: kenth

LOL! Yeah, that's the better comparison photo...BY FAR!!!


35 posted on 05/08/2006 10:42:53 AM PDT by jdm
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To: blu
Man, your family needs to come to my house on Xmas Eve. You should see the crap we stick each other with. I start scouring the thriftshops in August or make a Tijuana run for "just the right gift." You have to hang on to it for a whole year before you can finally unload it. We have this really tacky pope head that has been passed around and that has traveled the world being photographed in various locations.
36 posted on 05/08/2006 10:46:11 AM PDT by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: Republicanprofessor
$95.2 million --it's still a piece of crap.

But then, modern "art" is all about speculation, isn't it?

37 posted on 05/08/2006 10:56:40 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Republicanprofessor

I don't think he's from around here and I don't think English is his native language.


38 posted on 05/08/2006 11:23:25 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Republicanprofessor
It's Paul Simon!


39 posted on 05/08/2006 11:37:13 AM PDT by pgyanke (Christ has a tolerance for sinners; liberals have a tolerance for sin.)
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To: Republicanprofessor
I'm getting really sick of the dogs playing poker on almost every challenging art thread I post. Don't the dogs do anything else?

Yeah, but I think "Dogs Sniffing Each Other"s Kiesters" was banned for being "Too Controversial".

40 posted on 05/08/2006 11:42:10 AM PDT by TradicalRC ("...this present Constitution, which will be valid henceforth, now, and forever..."-Pope St. Pius V)
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