Posts by Category: Art

on 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...

8221 June 9, 2020 Art more

on 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...

4411 December 21, 2019 Art, Cars, Lifestyle more

on 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...

3345 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...

4474 August 15, 2019 Art, Cars more

on 27 July

Pink Floyd Guitarist David Gilmour’s Stratocaster Fetches $4M After Pre-Auction Estimates Peg It at $100K

A guitar donated to a charity auction by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour sold at Christie’s this summer for an astounding $3.975 million. The 1969 Fender Stratocaster set the record...

4717 July 27, 2019 Art more