Great moments in art

Jean-Michel Basquiat – Untitled-  US$110.5 Million

Interchange – Willem de Kooning – US$300 Million

satirical thread ?

The buyer

I'd go for the Twombly myself. Omigod it is magnificent, soul stirring.

 Given the number of times that some alleged masterpiece has passed through many hands without being appreciated much by anyone, till it was discovered as the work of some now famous painter, it really has less to do with what is on the canvas, and more to do with who daubed it. Many times people have sought to have a painting authenticated as the work of a supposed master, depending upon that,  the value could be millions, or peanuts. If it is true art, it should stand on what presents to the viewer, nothing else. It is the last word in snobbery and bullsh1t.

Precisely, max.

Don't tell me you bogans don't like any of these masterpieces.

I like the one PT posted. 

“Art” related: 

$150 roadside in Kenya? Oh well, you made a nice donation to the local economy AA. 

In the spring of 1949, the press baron Viscount Rothermere gave a ball that defied Britain’s postwar decline. The men wore white tie, the women their family jewels. The Queen Mother was there, and so was the royal of the moment, Princess Margaret. Late that night, the princess, giddy with Champagne, took the mic from Noël Coward and delivered her party trick. Her Royal Highness began to sing, off-key and out of time. The revelers loyally cheered and called for more.

Margaret was just beginning to mutilate “Let’s Do It” when a “prolonged and thunderous booing” emerged from the crowd. The band stopped, and the princess reddened and rushed from the room. “Who did that?” Lady Caroline Blackwood asked the man at her side. “It was that dreadful man, Francis Bacon,” he fumed. “He calls himself a painter but he does the most frightful paintings.”

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