Mayo 18, 2017

Jean-Michel Basquiat is "now in the same league as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso."

The crowd gasped as his painting of a skull just sold for $110.5 million.

23 komento:

David Begley ayon kay ...

George W. Bush and Althouse could do better. Not seeing the $110m. More like $110. Tops. With buyer's premium.

Heywood Rice ayon kay ...

...Trump.

rehajm ayon kay ...

Dude's in a Blondie video. Used to see him on the street. Nothing said $$$$ at the time...

Bill, Republic of Texas ayon kay ...

Yes the richest need another tax cut. Go GOPe!

MikeR ayon kay ...

Judging by the picture of the painting, I wouldn't want it at all. But what do I know.

Jupiter ayon kay ...

I am glad to read that the idiot who bought that painting is $110 miliion dollars poorer. Wish it were more.

le Douanier ayon kay ...

"Judging by the picture of the painting, I wouldn't want it at all."

Give it more time. Still drawin' a blank?

Anywho,

I wonder how much time Maezawa will clock staring at the real deal? I guess a lot. Hard to put a price on that.

Not to mention the investment potential. Nuttin's for sure, but this was an auction, so there's other interest around this number, even today.

Money well spent, from his POV.

le Douanier ayon kay ...

BTW, you folks do realize that we don't live in a society where dudes w/ the biggest clubs and biceps are at the top of the heap re metrics that matter, i.e. accounting, i.e. dough accumulation.

So, if you're so much smarter than Maezawa, how come you're not a billionaire?

Just sayin'

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

Grounds for impeachment.

Richard ayon kay ...

$110M for just a picture of a skull. How much can I get for the real thing?

Quaestor ayon kay ...

...Hillary

JackWayne ayon kay ...

I've seen similar skulls on punk band posters.

YoungHegelian ayon kay ...

Izzn't there some sayin' about a fool & his money? I know there is. Help me out here, willya?

MathMom ayon kay ...

It looks like graffiti on the side of a building. Unimpressive in the extreme.

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

"Frog with Spear in Speedos Menaces Kissing Giraffes"

madAsHell ayon kay ...

Paraphrasing John Lennon......"It took Picasso 40 years to create something that stupid"

Gahrie ayon kay ...

I'd hang it in my house...but I would be just as happy with a print, or a copy. Still there are worse ways to spend your money.

Zavier Onasses ayon kay ...

That'll keep the neighbors away. Dude wants his privacy.

Unknown ayon kay ...

revisionist history will be a bitch. he also comes with side benefits of Warhol association, dead early on drugs, non-white... someday, I think most modern work will be washed out to sea and forgotten. it is highly enabled at this time. personally, I have been sick of death skulls for at least 15 years... note rise of Cinco de Mayo which was a nothing-burger back in the day...

whitney ayon kay ...

I don't think it says anything about the quality of the art

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-27/want-to-avoid-u-s-taxes-on-an-80-million-warhol-buy-more-art

George M. Spencer ayon kay ...

Contrary to what many believe, he grew up in an upper middle class home and studied books of anatomy drawings given him by his mother.

A great, great, great artist.

BillyTalley ayon kay ...

The value of art stems from the unwillingness to part with it. I don't have the exact facts on hand, but I think this painting was held by the collector for 30 years. Basquiat was graced with legend status, like Marilyn Monroe or Hendricks: died young, drug habits, genuine talent to be sure, the exoticism of race, the timing of his emergence, a storied life... The rest of the story is the operation of the marketplace.

Trumpit ayon kay ...

"I'd hang it in my house...but I would be just as happy with a print, or a copy. Still there are worse ways to spend your money."

Your comment is silly considering the buyer paid $110,000,000 for a painting. Let me fix your unthinking comment for you: Still, there are better ways to spend your money. Fixed.

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