I shop therefore I am
While the recent auctions of paintings and other such fluff at Christie's and Sotheby's garnered mixed results, depending on who you talk to, yesterdays photography auction at Phillips du Pury & Co. was an unqualified success. Read the round up in the NY Times.
The high flyer for the night was the last item, this Barbara Kruger image, estimated at $80-120k. Final price was $601,600. A fitting and ironic end to the auction.
That is too funny . . . it's over-the-top just to see Barbara Kruger being auctioned in Christies, but at 5x the estimate. Too bad Tom Wolfe has turned into such an irrelevant curmudgeon on art . . .