Posted on 05/22/2017 10:15:32 AM PDT by C19fan
Joining the rarefied $100 million-plus club in a salesroom punctuated by periodic gasps from the crowd, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful 1982 painting of a skull brought $110.5 million at Sotheby’s, to become the sixth most expensive work ever sold at auction. Only 10 other works have broken the $100 million mark.
“He’s now in the same league as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso,” said the dealer Jeffrey Deitch, an expert on Basquiat.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat = French for “Laughing my A$$ off.”
Picasso was actually a good artist who decided to thumb his nose at the world and as a joke he did some crap portraits that caught on, which for now he is famous.
I prefer to call this kind of art - What the Hell is That?
Collector cars spiked many years ago. Lots of people lost tons of money when the inflated heaps collapsed in price. There will be an even bigger crash with billions lost by these fools one fine year. It can’t happen too soon.
Go to any university and look at the utter crap the seniors display. I’ve seldom laughed so hard as the time I went to the UofU’s exhibit. Kindergarteners do as well. The “artists” can’t mix paint or depict perspective because they are too busy “expressing themselves” to bother to learn to use their tools. Lol!
LOL
Modern Art: The product of the untalented, sold by the unscrupulous, to the unknowing but well financed!
Picasso had a strong foundation learning drafting and like from his father. He could paint any style he wanted.
Heh, good one.
Ed
I am reminded of The Serpent and the Rainbow!
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