05-02-2012, 10:53 PM
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That's a lot of money.
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05-02-2012, 11:55 PM
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I thought this painting was still lost. It's been stolen twice now right? Maybe it was stolen for ransom?
Ok to wikipedia I go...
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05-03-2012, 12:08 AM
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Not a casual user
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05-03-2012, 12:21 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Daradon
I thought this painting was still lost. It's been stolen twice now right? Maybe it was stolen for ransom?
Ok to wikipedia I go...
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I believe there are several copies. One (or two-I think) of the copies previously held by museums, have been stolen.
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05-03-2012, 12:27 AM
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I think Munch made a number of woodcuts. I saw one on loan at the Vancouver art Gallery a number of years ago.
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05-03-2012, 12:30 AM
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Connor Zary will win the Hart Trophy in 2027.
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05-03-2012, 01:02 AM
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Edvard Munch created several (four) versions of The Scream in various media. The National Gallery, Oslo holds one of two painted versions (1893, shown to right). The Munch Museum holds the other painted version (1910, see gallery) and one pastel. The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, The Scream and Madonna were stolen from the Munch Museum, and recovered two years later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream
Cool beans.
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05-03-2012, 01:12 AM
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Cool, I wonder how much my copy of I Have To Go! will fetch on eBay.
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05-03-2012, 01:47 AM
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$120 million? Damn my bid was for $119,985,500.25 
Now what am I going to blow this wad on?
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05-03-2012, 02:20 AM
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I have one of the originals I bought from a Nigerian King's son if anyone is interested.
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05-03-2012, 06:04 AM
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One of the versions of The Scream was part of a temporary Munch exhibition at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary in the late 90s. It was a great exhibition as I recall.
Of course I happened to visit the Munch Museum in Oslo during the two year period when The Scream and Madonna had been stolen so I didn't see them there. I do recall however that security had been beefed up at the museum to the point where it was more difficult to get in than it is to get to a departure gate at an airport.
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05-03-2012, 06:12 AM
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I don't understand art. Do paintings that get done in this day and age become famous like this?
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05-03-2012, 06:16 AM
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I don't understand art. Do paintings that get done in this day and age become famous like this?
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No, but internet programs that allow you to retouch photos and send them to your friends are valued in billions.
Useless is in the eye of the beholder.
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05-03-2012, 06:47 AM
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$120 million? Damn my bid was for $119,985,500.25
Now what am I going to blow this wad on? |
A hookers face.
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05-03-2012, 08:17 AM
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Strange, I always thought that was a Vincent Van Gogh painting.
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05-03-2012, 08:26 AM
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The most expensive transactions for paintings in the world. The one yesterday is not number one.
http://www.theartwolf.com/10_expensive.htm
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05-03-2012, 08:43 AM
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i am going to be sending pictures of my daughter's drawings to various auction houses - it seems that there is money to be made here.......
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05-03-2012, 08:44 AM
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'60 Minutes' surveys art market with Eli Broad, Jeffrey Deitch
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/cult...ey-deitch.html
Safer's report is a follow-up to his 1993 segment "Yes... but is it art?" The controversial piece questioned whether certain cutting-edge works qualified as art and landed Safer in hot water with some viewers who branded him a philistine.
Sunday's story attempted to examine why the art market has managed to outperform the S&P 500 and defy the current economic recession. Blum, who is the co-owner of the Blum & Poe gallery, described today's art market as the "wild west" and a "bizarre place to do business."
"This is all theater," he said, referring to the buying and selling at Art Basel. He also said the boom in art prices is "inexplicable."
The full segment from Sunday's broadcast is available online.
Morley Safer: How have China and Russia changed the art market?
Larry Gagosian: It's been a huge factor, I think the wealth in Russia, the Middle East, Asia has changed it, changed it dramatically.
Maria Baibakova, age 26, is interested in this dealer's Gerhard Richter, a German artist who is the current rage.
[Maria Baibakova: It's got a lot of wall power...]
She's a Russian oligarch's daughter, who's spending a fortune on contemporary art.
[Dealer: And my painting I'm selling it for $4.8 million and so you're getting a bargain with me today.
Maria Baibakova: That's a real bargain.
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05-03-2012, 08:53 AM
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Norm!
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Art tends to be one of the biggest scam games out there, driven by people that want to appear to be more sophisticated and smarter then they actually are.
I still remember when the Canadian Government commissioned that faces of rage or pain or whatever for a million bucks and got a painting with a black bacground and a red stripe down the middle that probably took less then an hour to create.
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