Sotheby’s auctioned Edvard Munch’s The Scream for nearly $119.9 million today, the most ever paid for an art work at auction. I am pretty sure that I can get you the above (elephant included) wholesale.
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I am linking this post to Emily Wieranga’s Imperfect Prose. Yes, I know, there’s precious little prose, but Emily asks for descriptions of things that are broken, and honestly, as much as I love Edvard Munch (I do), and art of all kinds (absolutely), I also think 120 million is a bit out of whack. It turns art into a commodity instead of an expression and overvalues certain popular pieces and artists while undervaluing others. Also, it causes viewers to see dollar signs rather than images. All that said, congrats to the seller, Peter Olsen, Norwegian businessman and shipping heir, whose father was actually a friend, neighbor and patron of Munch.
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