Posts by Category: Art

09 June

Billionaire Ken Griffin Pays Over $100M for Basquiat’s ‘Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump’

Aside from shelling out $238 million for a Manhattan penthouse last year, Citadel founder Ken Griffin expanded his Palm Beach estate with a hundred million dollar purchase, bringing the total...

5512 June 9, 2020 Art more

19 May

Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Brushstroke’ Estimated at $30M Ahead of Auction

At one time, acquiring a Lichtenstein indicated a moment of arrival. Well, Lichtenstein’s work White Brushstroke I is going under the gavel at Sotheby’s, where it’s expected to sell for...

2899 May 19, 2020 Art more

21 December

Jung, Basquiat, Rolls-Royce: Artist Bradley Theodore Paints a Phantom

When Rolls-Royce commissioned artist Bradley Theodore to use a Phantom as a canvas, they of course gave him carte blanche. What emerged from the artistic interplay between Theodore’s consciousness, unconsciousness...

3252 December 21, 2019 Art, Cars, Lifestyle more

03 December

Hippo Bathtub Fetched $168K in 2006, $4.3M in 2019

At the Christie’s New York auction last month, the work 'Hippopotame I’ finished at $4.3 million, making the seller very happy indeed: the unnamed person’s $168K investment 13 years ago...

2568 December 3, 2019 Art more

15 August

Andy Warhol’s BMW Art Car Revisited for 40th Anniversary

BMW went through its back pages a bit this month when it rolled out the 1979 Andy Warhol Art Car for a photoshoot. The car was photographed in an old...

3677 August 15, 2019 Art, Cars more