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October 17, 2012

1.9 Million or 21.3 Million... It's Still a Piece of Shit [Bumped]

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Eric Clapton sells Gerhard Richter painting for record 21.3 million... 11 years after buying it with two other paintings for just 1.9 million
Before the auction the painting was predicted to fetch up to 」11.8million but the huge price tag became the highest ever price paid for a work by the abstract artist.... A year ago, Richter, who is now 80, described the art market as ‘daft’, ‘absurd’ and ‘impossible to understand’.

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 17, 2012 10:20 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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The Anchoress has posted a video about a street artist whose art is far superior to this vapid waste of canvas. Go watch it. There is hope for the humanities.

Posted by: Jewel at October 13, 2012 11:45 PM

This is why the arts needs to be funded by the taxpayer.

Posted by: Banned Name at October 14, 2012 5:19 AM

The Arts do not need to be funded by the taxpayers. Either the art is 'good or it is 'bad' as the buying public determines. They can put the imprimatur upon it. If one cannot sell work to make a living, go paint houses.

State produced art is plentiful; shop the state approved galleries of Communist China, Venezuela, or Cuba. Buy the old so called art of the soviets, fascist Italy or the FDR approved New Deal art.

Posted by: Peccable at October 14, 2012 5:58 AM

It's clear Eric Clapton shows more saavy as an art collector than in his musical stylings. He hasn't put out anything worth a listen since Derek and the Dominoes broke up.

Posted by: MarkJ at October 14, 2012 6:34 AM

It's clear Eric Clapton shows more saavy as an art collector than in his musical stylings. He hasn't put out anything worth a listen since Derek and the Dominoes broke up.

Posted by: MarkJ at October 14, 2012 6:34 AM

Just another example of the fruit of our culture.

Posted by: Leslie at October 14, 2012 8:04 AM

I love it. Not the painting, it's trash, but I love the fact of its sale and its price.

It is immoral to let a sucker keep his money, and the buyer is a sucker for sure. I have no doubt that even if Clapton spends every dime on hookers and blow, it will be better used than whatever else the fool of a buyer could dream up.

Posted by: Fred Z at October 14, 2012 8:13 AM

"It is possible to inculcate in the contemporary bourgeois any stupid idea in the name of progress and to sell him any grotesque object in the name of art." --Don Colacho's Aphorisms

Posted by: Gagdad Bob at October 14, 2012 9:30 AM

Why play the Stock Market when you can Play the Art Gallery: Gambling at its best and it gives you lots to talk about. Whether it is the latest Junk you have bought (speculating on the Mental Condition of the artist at hand, to the so-called meaning of the so called painting, to how many 'starving artists' you've 'donated to) to how your are going to use the art (put in you house, dump on your friends, 'donate' to art galleries), to selling it and making a profit (parties, brokers, buying/schmoozing art-critics) etc.

Why play cards

The topics of conversation at the dinner parties are endless - and you don't have the taint of being a moneygrubbing stock broker. Its a lifestyle all surrounded by art and people and money.

LateNightCardGames, Garage sales, Pawnshops, Stock picking, deals made/broken, Conversation/topics-starters-for-parties, avantgarde artists to bring to your parties, etc... all rolled into one.

Win! win! win!

(You see... its not really all about the art anymore, but the process & entertainment)

Posted by: cond0011 at October 14, 2012 9:33 AM

I dunno- lots of pretty colors there. And pretty colors are cool.

JWM

Posted by: jwm at October 14, 2012 9:39 AM

It seems an odd but perhaps informative fact of life: even as populations have greatly increased in number, genius has not. Perhaps the reverse is true.

Posted by: james wilson at October 14, 2012 11:11 AM

@jwm...exactly what I thought when I saw a bit on Varney & Co last week that Clapton was also auctioning a very rare Phillipe Patek wrist watch valued at between $2.3-4.2 mil.

Posted by: BJM at October 14, 2012 12:18 PM

To be fair, I do like it better than the one in the post directly above it. But I don't think it's because it's "genuine" and the other is fake. I think it's the colors. I might give $50 or even $100 for this one, if I were feeling flush, since it would nicely set off the colors in my living room, but that's about it.

The last two paintings I bought were both representational, and both from students in an AP high school Art class. I paid $50 for this one. Yes, something's gone seriously wrong with the perspective, but the colors are nice, the scene is familiar (I live a block away), and I even know the guy in the chair. If I could have either the one I bought, or the one Clapton sold, for the same price, I'd still rather have the one I bought, amateur or not. (Unless I thought I could resell the other one for millions, as Clapton did, of course.)

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at October 14, 2012 12:22 PM

well crap...read much?

My comment should have been directed to Bill Jones, not JWM.

Posted by: BJM at October 14, 2012 12:35 PM

It may be a piece of $#;+ to you, Gerard. But Clapton thinks it smells like roses.

Posted by: Fat Man at October 14, 2012 1:12 PM

Roses huh? Mencken covered that with his comment on roses, cabbage and soup.

Posted by: Peccable at October 15, 2012 3:28 AM

I'm sure Clapton does think it smells like roses, since he managed to sell it to a (very non-discriminating) buyer for way more than he paid for it.

Yes, pretty colors are cool. Sherwin-Williams sells them by the gallon, for much less than S21.3 mil a pop.

Posted by: waltj at October 15, 2012 7:43 AM

The artist (Richter) doesn't get a dime from the painting's resale. I'm sure that helped color the comments he made regaridng this resale of his work.

It is very telling that the kinds of people who buy and sell this stuff -- or wish they could -- are the "enlightened" glitterati and their wannabes who would enforce "fairness" and "economic justice" on the rest of us, but leave the "artistic geniuses" they proffess to admire high and dry.

Posted by: Don Rodrigo at October 15, 2012 9:29 AM

Peccable "State produced art is plentiful; shop the state approved galleries..."

The Netherlands has warehouses full of crap produced by state-subsidized artists. Nobody wants the art, so it cannot be sold. But it must be warehoused forever at taxpayer expense because it would be illegal to destroy it.

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Posted by: Cheryl at December 10, 2012 6:00 PM

I would gladly work 35-38 hours per week, if that meant someone could keep their job.

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Posted by: Bebe at December 10, 2012 6:23 PM

I really like the idea of using universities' email services to get in touch with college students because they make up a noticeable portion of the population. Having college students under counted could really hurt the amount of funds a community will receive out of the $400 billion. The excuse that students are using that they are too busy will not work for the upcoming census. They have really shortened up the process to only 10 basic questions that takes less than ten minutes of your time! The Census Bureau specifically states that they count people where they live so parents should not be filling out the form for their children as well. Emily's idea of using social networking sites to get census messages across is definitely something that should be taken into consideration. A lot of students out there use these sites to keep in touch with each other and if they see that their fellow classmates are "attending" the census, then they might follow as well. The route that the Boston census office is taking is another great idea, but I feel an incentive should be offered alongside this idea. Therefore, more colleges will be willing to participate and help out the community.

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