Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Reasons why I'm quitting my job to be an artist

I read in the NY Times yesterday that several contemporary works set price records at a recent Phillips de Pury & Company auction. In fact, in one evening they sold $117 million in contemporary art. Hmmmm.

$63 million
Andy Warhol's "Men in Her Life" (1962)


$6.8 million
Takashi Murakami's "Miss KO1" (1997)

$2.9 million
Maurizio Cattelan's "Charlie" (2003)

$4.5 million
Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled (Portrait of Marcel Brient)" (2003)

$3.6 million
Thomas Schutte's "Grosse Geist No. 15"

1 comment:

mcl said...

Charlie scares me.