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This painting sold for $23,685,000 this year

by TimPhelan
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This sold at Christie's earlier this year for almost $24 million. No joke.



http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/p...5-details.aspx
  • Profile picture of the author ThomM
    I was a little disappointed Tim. When I saw the thread title I was hoping it was one of yours.
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      I wish it was Thom, but I just don't have the talent that this guy obviously does. :/
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      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        Originally Posted by TimPhelan View Post

        I wish it was Thom, but I just don't have the talent that this guy obviously does. :/
        I don't know if it was intended, but I caught the sarcasm
        But you already know what I think of your art.
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    I can't help but wonder why anyone would pay anything for it.
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    • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      I can't help but wonder why anyone would pay anything for it.
      For a lot of these buyers who pay millions for art, the work itself is more of a commodity and investment than something they just want because they love it.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Seriously. 10 million copies - for $23.63 each?
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    • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Seriously. 10 million copies - for $23.63 each?
      Nope. One small canvas.

      Hey, there are a lot of artists I know, good artists, some of them professors even, who are shaking their heads at this sale and others like it.
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    Strange......
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  • Profile picture of the author ForumGuru
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    Dude has been making a killing with his abstract stencil art for quite sometime...

    Christopher Wool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/christopher-wool

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    • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
      Originally Posted by ForumGuru View Post

      Dude has been making a killing with his abstract stencil art for quite sometime...
      Yep. The thing that gets me is that what he did wasn't revolutionary in the art world. People had used stencils in fine art for a long time. Jasper Johns, an artist I like, used stencils a lot three decades before Wool did and used them in a more interesting way.
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      • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
        Yes, confirmation that the world is insane!

        So this means that if someone hijacked this guy and got him to sign a blank canvas, then they could create simple crap like this and go get 10 million for it!

        After all people are paying for the signature, the artwork is a crock.....!

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        • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
          If You Wont Buy A Joke Get The Fkuc Out Of My Auction Room

          10 million please, I take Paypal
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  • Profile picture of the author Cali16
    To think of all the good that could be done with $23 million, and it's spent on that.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Maybe the guy had that chlorovirus that makes you stupid that I posted about.
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  • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
    This just proves that some people have more dollars than sense.
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    • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
      This is as bad as the "fine" artwork I've seen with random numbers posted line after line. The painting was obviously not fine artwork any more than the numbers were, but...obviously, people with more money than brains buy that kind of stuff.

      I used to be very interested in drawing sailboats when I was about 3 years old. My mother never did appreciate my artwork because I was painting the house windows inside with her nail polish.
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