Wednesday, August 25, 2010

murakami’s “my lonesome cowboy” = $15 million.


When you can do no wrong, your life-sized sculpture of a bright-eyed anime manga-boy jerking off and whipping his jizz into a gigantic lasso around his head will sell at auction for $13.5 million US. Two nights ago at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening, “My Lonesome Cowboy”, estimated to go for $3-$4 million, surpassed expectations and ended up with a $13.5 million closing bid. Add in the 11% house commission and you’ve got yourself a world-famous Murakami for a cool $15.161 million. The only question that remains… where to put it?

http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/murakamis-my-lonesome-cowboy-15-million/

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