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12-04-2012, 04:13 PM | #1 | |||
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Edvard Munch’s classic masterpiece, on show in London this week, is estimated to fetch $80 million at Sotheby's. Fifty-three works worth an estimated $446 million (£280 million) from Sotheby’s forthcoming Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales in New York are to be exhibited in London this week. Highlights include Edvard Munch’s classic, The Scream, estimated at $80 million, and Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis, estimated at between $30 million and $50 million. Is the price of art becoming obscene? Are there not better ways to spend £50M, and greater needs? I know art is a good investment, but are the prices people are willing to pay for it now out of control? Have art lovers obsessions with owning modern greats now become simply ridiculous? Last edited by Mrluvaluva; 03-05-2012 at 01:29 AM. |
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12-04-2012, 04:22 PM | #2 | |||
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Yes the Art World
Utter Bliss. |
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14-04-2012, 08:28 PM | #3 | |||
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The Scream.
Don't you just know how that feels sometimes? That's worth the money in my opinion, to sum emotion up so succinctly. |
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14-04-2012, 08:39 PM | #4 | |||
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If I had megamillions I would buy artwork like this.
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03-05-2012, 01:04 AM | #5 | |||
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Sells for almost $120,000,000
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03-05-2012, 01:16 AM | #6 | |||
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Wow. What that sort of money could do...
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03-05-2012, 01:18 AM | #7 | |||
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All hail the Moyesiah
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Don't see what's so good about it
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03-05-2012, 01:45 AM | #8 | |||
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me neither. never really got weird art like this
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03-05-2012, 01:49 AM | #9 | |||
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sounds about right
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03-05-2012, 01:52 AM | #10 | |||
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I do appreciate art, I just think the money it commands is crazy.
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03-05-2012, 01:54 AM | #11 | |||
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I guess it's just the thrill of being able to say you're the only one in the world that has it
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03-05-2012, 02:25 AM | #12 | |||
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I do have one off original pieces, but not by famous artists.
Would not pay silly amounts for them though. |
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03-05-2012, 05:07 AM | #13 | |||
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I just don't get it
Art is just ridiculously expensive sometimes when it really isn't very good. |
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