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Giacometti fetches £65m

post #1 of 7
2/3/10 at 7:38pm
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Jesus.
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post #2 of 7
2/3/10 at 7:40pm
I just saw this and my immediate reaction as someone who knows nothing about art was that these guys bid that much just to show off how much they paid for it. I'm saying that purely because of the discrepancy between the expected and hammer prices.
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post #3 of 7
2/3/10 at 8:50pm
[vox]We gave a couple of those away some years back. I think they were standing, not walking, though.[/vox]
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post #4 of 7
2/3/10 at 9:38pm
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I just saw this and my immediate reaction as someone who knows nothing about art was that these guys bid that much just to show off how much they paid for it. I'm saying that purely because of the discrepancy between the expected and hammer prices.

I think it's rude how you talk about me like that.
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post #5 of 7
2/3/10 at 9:54pm
Who was the shmuck bidding against the winner? He's just as culpable for this...
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post #6 of 7
2/3/10 at 10:37pm
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[vox]We gave a couple of those away some years back. I think they were standing, not walking, though.[/vox]

One of those Museum Giftshop things?
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2/3/10 at 10:40pm
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