Earlier: Night at the Art Market Crash (BID)
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/11/...t-art-rec.html
Bacon was a sensation and the Van Gogh* didn't go.
One speculates it's because it's now become more or less accepted that "Wheat Fields (with Crows)" was not Vincent's last painting, contrary to what's depicted in films such as
Lust for Life and
Vincent & Theo. (...along with "Wheat Fields" not being exactly one of his better works really either.)
*(yeah, correctly it's "Gawck" in case any of you read it that way)
Richard Prince, Lucian Freud, and Gerhard Richter had strong showings and Koons prices are soaring right now as the article above alludes.
Personally, I feel SY are due some payback from Prince and Richter.
According to Koons (concerning "Rabbit"), “Polished objects have often been displayed by the church and by wealthy people to set a stage of both material security and enlightenment of spiritual nature; the stainless steel is a fake reflection of that stage.”
His "Rabbit" from '86 is probably gonna go for a hundred mil one day.
And oh yeah, Rabbit is gonna be a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade this year.
http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/art/jeff_koons_gigantic_shiny_rabbit_to_join_macys_tha nksgiving_parade_70933.asp