$86.9 million for this?

jayteecork

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18001432

Not sure I'd pay it.

galwayrush

I couldn't afford it either.

Susie_Q

Orange you glad you didn't buy it OP?

abouttobebanned

This makes me angry.

jayteecork

Susie_Q wrote: »

Orange you glad you didn't buy it OP?

Post-War art is shíte

mconigol

jayteecork wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18001432

Not sure I'd pay it.

I'd have to think about it too. Needs more orange really.

jayteecork

Talk about 2% of the people owning 98% of the wealth.

How many hospitals would this buy in Africa?

Oh well none of my business.

Jesus Shaves

jayteecork wrote: »

Talk about 2% of the people owning 98% of the wealth.

How many hospitals would this buy in Africa?

Oh well none of my business.

The Africans are already a third world race and now you want to take their hospitals too?

Judgement Day

More worthless rubbish. Another prime candidate for the "Emperor's New Clothes" award. One of these days there's going to be a day of reckoning in the Arts world to rival the property crash - it can't come soon enough.

Thought this comment said it all: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18001432?postId=112471895#comment_112471895

and this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18001432?postId=112471895#comment_112471895

Pherekydes

The wall in my front room is painted the same colour. Will someone pay me $80* million for it?

*It's going at a discount for this week only.

the_syco

Meh. I'll put it into the same category as wine banks; wine that is worth lots, but will never be drank, as it's more expensive if the bottle is never opened :eek:

At least with art, you can look at it, I suppose.

danniemcq

does that woman come with it?

no oil painting but something to sweeten the pot

Palytoxin

You could probably build a well in every village in an African country for that, what is it supposed to be anyway? Some people shouldn't be let have money if they're going to spend it on shíte like that.

galwayrush

jayteecork wrote: »

Post-War art is shíte

I saw that expo in the papers some time back. I wonder if anyone actually bought it...:eek:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

you do realise you could build a well in an african village for what it costyou to buy your computer/laptop/tablet/games console/car/tv/

so get off your high horses. compared to the worlds poor you are every bit as rich and wasteful as whatever idiotic ****wit bought this ****e painting.

galwayrush

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

you do realise you could build a well in an african village for what it costyou to buy your computer/laptop/tablet/games console/car/tv/

so get off your high horses. compared to the worlds poor you are every bit as rich and wasteful as whatever idiotic ****wit bought this ****e painting.

Maybe the guy who sold it wants to build the well..

Dravokivich

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

you do realise you could build a well in an african village for what it costyou to buy your computer/laptop/tablet/games console/car/tv/

so get off your high horses. compared to the worlds poor you are every bit as rich and wasteful as whatever idiotic ****wit bought this ****e painting.

I don't hang my laptop on a wall and guffaw at myself while looking at the damn thing.

forfuxsake

the guy who bought it is only an idiot if its value goes down.

Wibbs

Judgement Day wrote: »

More worthless rubbish. Another prime candidate for the "Emperor's New Clothes" award. One of these days there's going to be a day of reckoning in the Arts world to rival the property crash - it can't come soon enough.

Maybe, though at the moment it seems just as much a second level money substitute for the hyper rich. A way for them to move money around the place largely tax free. Try moving 50 million in dodgy money from one country to he next, not so easy. Roll up a picasso in a tube and it's a lot easier. And that's a recognisable name, some splatter on canvas only known to those in the rarified art world would be even easier.

Jesus Shaves

Dravokivich wrote: »

I don't hang my laptop on a wall and guffaw at myself while looking at the damn thing.

that's what ipads are for

smcgiff

forfuxsake wrote: »

the guy who bought it is only an idiot if its value goes down.

Same as those that have piled into gold

NiallFH

$50 tops for it

Cognitive Cascade

Am I the only one who thought this had something to do with the lotto?

holystungun9

Ridiculous. I just went to Google Images, found it and made it my screensaver for a cost of......pretty much free.


















*update - just changed screen saver back to three hot girls in thongs in Miami Beach.

dlofnep

That's not art, that's a mistake. People are morons.

the groutch

straight-jacket (orange one of course) for whoever bought it

ejmaztec

The painting must be on the other side.

Plazaman

I think it's one of those 3D Seeing Eye pictures as I've been staring at it for five minutes and can now see the Mc Donalds logo in the middel of it.

I Heart Internet

Art is a handy store of wealth. That, more than anything else, explains the amazingly high prices in the contemporary art industry. That's neither a good or bad it just is.