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Originally Posted by cash05458
Oh. prolly more....for some of the huge ones...the art market is crazy...to buy at that level is just high stakes gambling really I think once it is picked up into culture...nice if you have that cash but you had better have an advisor along with you...a belgian guy I am buddies with...luc tuymans... sells stuff for pretty much 3 quarters of a million new...and that's a deal in terms of his prices shooting up...I remember his first show...stuff costed about 500 bucks! Nice to see someone out here who knows who pettibon and burden are! Pretty easy to pick on art coming from a bike forum where we all pretty much have rich blood via prices of decent bikes...
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There is a lot of wrong in the art market. A lot of wrong w/ the power of curators. There is a lot of wrong w/ art too (Hirst, Koons).... but there is something beautifull: you cannot categorize people according to $ or how they look. That guy who is begging to buy a sandwich and looks like a moron may become a huge deal sometime somewhere. Although there is mostly strategy and marked cards today where galleries swim and play there is still an element of surprise, of humble, of humanity. The big artists know it and they are the ones who open the wallet to help powerless beginners.. it´s still the artists who tell what´s the real deal.
EDIT: Tuymans is a huge name.