Now for something completely different

[philip964]

Maybe the $110 million dollar painting is sofa sized while the 31 million one is much smaller.

And I feel you are not giving your granddaughter's refrigerator picture enough credit.

[The Annoyed Man]

"Looks like a Basquait?" Looks like stuff I've seen on the side of box cars going down the train track. But maybe that's because I'm just a bourgeois deplorable. Or is it a deplorable bourgeois?

It’s “deplorable bourgeois”.

And you beat me to it, except I was going to say that I’ve seen that same art on freeway overpasses and warehouses in Los Angeles. I think that the statement “from far off, that looks like a Basquiat“ could be applied to almost anything that mars the general appearance of things. “That Great Dane of yours left something on my front lawn that, from far off, looks like a Basquiat. Would you kindly pick up and hang it on your own wall?”

All jokes aside, the daughter may actually have a case. Her father may well have scared off bidders with his legal claims to the right to sell the paining, which after the fact, the court ruled was a frivolous claim. If the last Basquiat sold for $110 million, it is a reasonable assumption that this one might well have commanded a price in that vicinity too. We’ll know for sure if the buyer ever gets around to selling his $31 million painting.

The flip side to her claim - at least as I see it - is that she could have simply pulled the painting from sale until AFTER the ownership issues had been settled by the courts. She would then have been in the position to include a legal document as part of the painting’s providence, making her ownership ironclad, and her right to sell it beyond dispute. That might have actually helped get the price north of that $100 million threshold.

[philip964]

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wi ... s-57790897

A modern painting is in the news by artist David Hockney.

This guy is still alive and painting may sell for as much as $80 million.

To me the painting shows some one like Hillary Clinton looking into a swimming pool. It’s actually a gay guy, though.

This artist paints sort of realistic, which is a surprise, but apparently paints lots of swimming pools.

So now you can recognize two modern artists.

[C-dub]

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wi ... s-57790897

A modern painting is in the news by artist David Hockney.

This guy is still alive and painting may sell for as much as $80 million.

To me the painting shows some one like Hillary Clinton looking into a swimming pool. It’s actually a gay guy, though.

This artist paints sort of realistic, which is a surprise, but apparently paints lots of swimming pools.

So now you can recognize two modern artists.

Not hippy enough for hrc. David Spade?

[philip964]

https://news.yahoo.com/jeff-koons-sells ... 33967.html

Crome sculpture of an inflatable rabbit, sells for 91 million.

[philip964]

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2019/12/06/b ... art-basel/.

Less annoying website

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-b ... index.html

Banana taped with duct tape to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan sells for $120,000.

Not a painting or a photograph, but an actual banana taped to a wall.

[JustSomeOldGuy]

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2019/12/06/b ... art-basel/.

Less annoying website

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-b ... index.html

Banana taped with duct tape to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan sells for $120,000.

Not a painting or a photograph, but an actual banana taped to a wall.

An example of what's called a "short term investment".

[PriestTheRunner]

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2019/12/06/b ... art-basel/.

Less annoying website

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-b ... index.html

Banana taped with duct tape to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan sells for $120,000.

Not a painting or a photograph, but an actual banana taped to a wall.

An example of what's called a "short term investment".

Thats whats called legal money laundering.

[longtooth]

How about "bull squat"?

This is the one I like best.
Guess since I am pushin 70 in 2 weeks prolly never get to a art museum. Huummm, come to think of it, never been to one. Kinda partial to gun shows.

[E10]

These people have waaayyy too much money and waaayyy too little brain. In the OP’s example, it’s interesting to note that it seems the folks arguing over the money didn’t earn it, they inherited it.

[twomillenium]

I don't care what someone pays for what the deem as art. However, I need someone to introduce me to the buyer, I have some stuff that will cost him quite a bit less, I will pay a commission.

[powerboatr]

ohhh my that is one ugly item. But i see how one with 30 million burning a hole in ones pocket could be spent.

[philip964]

https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/j ... n-2926155/

Basquiat Painting sells for 100 million.

Not as ugly as most.

[Ruark]

I've actually spent quite a bit of time around gallery artists and studied some art analysis and art history in college, but the valuation of a lot of abstract art still leaves me scratching my head.

I remember several decades ago, going through the Denver Museum of Art, a huge world class art museum with paintings and sculptures from every famous artist you ever heard of. Rembrandt, Monet, DaVinci, Dali, Picasso, Degas, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Bierstadt, Remington, et. al.

When you first entered the museum, you stepped through some glass doors and on a wall right in front of you is a big 8-foot-square blank canvas. Absolutely blank: no frame, paint or finish on it of any kind. The name was on the little wall card. It was... are you ready.... "Blank Canvas." I kid you not.

I asked a museum staff if they'd hang up a blank canvas if I walked in with one. He said "oh, no, of course not" like it was a stupid question. "So why did you hang HIS up?" I asked. He said, "well, because he's a very famous artist." Actually, that probably was a stupid question.

I just chalked it up to another lesson in the School of Life.