Are you an artist?

[HairOfTheDog]

I know there's another thread for art somewhere in the main forum, but can't find it.

Anyway, re-reading this thread made me laugh. Classic, "I am more educated and cultured than everyone else!" posts from my friend aussie (who also happens to find snobbery repulsive). Funny stuff.

So, Andy Warhol...
He keeps popping up all over the arts and entertainment news sections these days.

I don't know how much the previous owners paid for his pieces, but gotta think those private collectors/investors are raking in major profits on re-sell. Huge business.


Recently auctioned for $57 million USD: "Coca-Cola (3)"
Painted in 1962; one of several "Coca-Cola" paintings by Warhol.



Recently auctioned for $105.4 million USD: "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"
This lesser-known Warhol painting shows a twisted body in the wreckage of a car crash, part of Warhol's vaunted "Death and Disaster" series, painted in 1963.




Valued at $12 million to $30 million USD: "Farrah Fawcett" portrait.
This is one of two Fawcett portraits and is currently the subject of a nasty lawsuit between the University of Texas (Farrah left them her art collection) and Ryan O'Neal. The portraits were painted in 1980.
The sordid story here: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/03/showbiz/on...?hpt=ju_t5