Basquiat Painting Is Sold for $110.5 Million at Auction

[seebell]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/...it_na_20170518&nl=breaking-news&nlid=57903598

Joining the rarefied $100 million-plus club in a sales room 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.

I should have saved my sons fingerpaintings from the kindergarten garbage can.

 

[AUDub]

While I can appreciate and admire fine art, there are just some parts of it I will never understand.

 

[Bodhisattva]

While I can appreciate and admire fine art, there are just some parts of it I will never understand.

Yeah, the way I judge art is that if it's something I can do, it's not art. The above looks like something I did in first grade.

 

[Tide1986]

I would've paid $210 million for that awesome piece of sh...uh...art.

 

[CajunCrimson]

I had to look twice, but at first glance....I swear I saw Nancy Pelosi

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I was an awesome artist when I was 3 years old, apparently.

 

[uafan4life]

Looks like the guy had Tic-Tac-Toe on the brain just before he died.

Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

 

[Elefantman]

Looks like the guy had Tic-Tac-Toe on the brain just before he died.

Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

And he couldn't play it worth a darn either.

 

[AUDub]

I would've paid $210 million for that awesome piece of sh...uh...art.

Hey, at least we found out what the 1% does with all that money.

 

[MattinBama]

I can see why it did over double of this one:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324723/Newman-abstract-painting-sells-43m-NY.html

All those extra colors jacked up the price.