OVERVIEW: Art in Embassies Program Gave Podestas, Jeff Koons, Rockefellers, Clintons, Marina Abramovic, Rothschilds even Alefantis access to a private shipping channel that could bypass airport security credit: @Swordfish69
Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ Sets Auction Record for Most Expensive Work by Living Artist
Robert E. Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for Mr. Koons’s 1986 “Rabbit” from an aisle seat near the front of the salesroom. He was seated near Peter Brant, the collector and private museum-owner, and Jeffrey Deitch, the dealer.
It was the ultimate prize among six works offered at Christie’s from the collection of the magazine publisher S.I. Newhouse Jr., who died in 2017. Estimated to raise at least $50 million, this sculpture, made in an edition of three and one artist’s proof, was the last example left in private hands, according to Christie’s.
The price, surpassing the $90.2 million with fees achieved, again at Christie’s, for Mr. Hockney’s 1972 painting, “Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures),” confirmed how Mr. Koons’s metal sculptures have become the ultimate billionaire trophies produced during the contemporary art boom of the 1980s and ’90s. The Hockney milestone came at the expense of Mr. Koons, the previous record-holder, whose “Balloon Dog (Orange)” sold at auction for $58.4 million in November 2013.
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drstrangegov ago
These people have to launder money with this shit.
Are_we_sure ago
How would that work?
auralsects ago
I described one way long ago, in a post showing its a market dominated by Jewish hedge fund owners. How could it NOT be a scam.
WeirdlyEerie ago
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3222284/18645288
drstrangegov ago
The art is sold as a "package deal" with children, drugs, hell I dunno. Uranium? The public rabbit transaction happens in public while 90 million dollars worth of whatever rolls out in trucks. And someone has a 91 million dollar piece of "art"
Z11Mama ago
This is my thinking, exactly. You pay millions for a piece of art. The piece of art represents a human package that is included free. No one but the approved bidders know there is more to the art.
drstrangegov ago
There is no way this "art" has that kind of value. We've heard about cia involvement in art since Andy Warhol.