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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I'm dropping porn and taking up finger-painting. Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is auctioned at Sotheby's Wednesday, May 2, 2012, in New York. The image is one of four versions created by the Norwegian expressionist painter. Three are in Norwegian museums. The one at the Sotheby's auction is the only one left in private hands and is being sold by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father was a friend and patron of the artist. The hammer price was $107 Million with the buyers premium is $119,922,500. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) NEW YORK (AP) — It's a scream that's still reverberating around the world. One of the most iconic images in art history — Edvard Munch's "The Scream" — has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. During an intense 12 minutes, the 1895 artwork — a modern symbol of human anxiety — was sold at Sotheby's in New York City on Wednesday for a record $119,922,500 (€91,327,774). Neither the buyer's name nor any details about the buyer was released. The previous record for an artwork sold at auction was $106.5 million (€81.11 million) for Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," sold by Christie's in 2010. Munch's image of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky is one of four versions by the Norwegian expressionist painter. The auctioned piece at Sotheby's is the only one left in private hands. The image has become part of pop culture, "used by everyone from Warhol to Hollywood to cartoons to teacups and T-shirts," said Michael Frahm of the London-based art advisory service firm Frahm Ltd. "Together with the Mona Lisa, it's the most famous and recognized image in art history." "As popular culture, it provides an analogy for both individual and collective experiences of, variously, loss, pain, grief, modernity, nature gone awry, the body out of control, and Existential struggle," said Patricia Berman, chair of the art department at Wellesley College and a director of the Edvard Munch Research Institute in Oslo. A buzz swept through the room when the artwork was presented for auction as two guards stood watch on either side. Bidding started at $40 million (€30.46 million) with seven buyers jumping into the competition early. The battle eventually boiled down to two phone bidders as the historic hammer price was finally achieved after more than 12 minutes. The record price includes the auction house's fee. Sotheby's said the pastel-on-board version of "The Scream" is the most colorful and vibrant of the four and the only version whose frame was hand-painted by the artist to include his poem, detailing the work's inspiration. In the poem, Munch described himself "shivering with anxiety" and said he felt "the great scream in nature." Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father was a friend and patron of the artist, said he sold the piece through Sotheby's because he felt "the moment has come to offer the rest of the world the chance to own and appreciate this remarkable work." "I have lived with this work all my life, and its power and energy have only increased with time," Olsen said. Proceeds from the sale will go toward the establishment of a new museum, art center and hotel in Hvitsten, Norway, where Olsen's father and Munch were neighbors. A total of nine works now have sold for $80 million (€60 million) or more at auction, according to Sotheby's. Besides "The Scream" and Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," only two other works have sold for more than $100 million (€76 million) at auction. Those are Picasso's "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)" for $104.1 million (€79.28 million) in 2004 and Alberto Giacometti's "Walking Man I" for $104.3 (€79.43) million in 2010. ___ | |
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| 05-03-12 06:58am - 4617 days | #2 | |
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Lance Chris (0)
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| 05-04-12 08:01am - 4615 days | #3 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Please allow me to modify your plan a bit. As PU members, let's pool our talents to increase the chances of success. Here's the plan: Khan will host and judge a finger painting contest for PU members. We'll enter the winner in an auction and collect our $130 million (I'm guessing that someone here can do better than "The Scream"). We get a pre-paid credit card with a $130 million limit and we all pay for porn memberships off that card for the rest of our lives. Admittedly, I haven't thought this through completely, but it seems like a sure thing. let's get painting guys! | |
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| 05-04-12 10:20am - 4615 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
What surprises me, at least a little, is the buyers premium collected by the auction house. On a sale of $107 million, the auction house adds on $12,922,500, for a total price of $119,922,500. And I don't know how sales tax figures into this. The auction was held in New York. If there was any sales tax involved, why not hold the auction instead in some tax-friendly country? I mean, you are probably talking millions of dollars in sales tax or whatever other taxes might apply. | |
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