74 million for this please log in to view this image I cant see it. ---------------------------------------------------- To mere mortals it hardly seemed like a bargain but someone, somewhere, has decided that owning a rare version of Edvard Munch's 1895 painting, The Scream, was worth shelling out an eye-watering $119.9m (£74m). The price, one of the highest ever paid for a work of art, was reached after just 12 minutes of bidding and paid by a so-far anonymous telephone bidder. As the auctioneer's gavel came down at Sotheby's in New York, the crowd in the room cheered the remarkable event. Bidding had started at a relatively modest $50m with at least five interested parties but the field narrowed as the price sky-rocketed. One of only four versions of the work in existence and widely regarded as the best, the painting sold on Thursday night is one of a handful of artistic images that have crossed over from the world of high art to popular culture.
Seeing as it's probably the most famous impressionist painting there is. Surely the value of art is how recognisable it is?
most 'famous' art is shoite I have seen rolph harris do better than the ****ing mona lisa, or the crappy daffodils or whatever they are meant to be and that hurst and emmins rubbish
Having seen the mona lisa and davincis sunflowers and van goghs and the price of the things I can honestly say I dont see the fuss shoite!!!!
He may be able to sucker in the usual suspects into his "debates", I'm no that ****ing daft. Value is in the eye of the beholder. If you can afford £74million for a painting then fair ****s to yie.
That's what I'm thinking or maybe fan knows something we don't. Da Vinci maybe hiding in the painting somewhere in some kind of code?
Van gogh worked out the code centuries later and unveiled the master piece as his own, only to be sent insane after the knights templar got medieval on him, and even ripped part of his ear off do to gripping it too tight? Where's Eddie ffs...
How do they price sports cars at hundreds, even thousands of times the cost of a normal car? Value is in the eye of the beholder as I said before.
TBH i shouted out who painted the daffodils and was told do you mean davincis sunflowers? the person then googled it as I said 'sure they are VG's' and said oh they both did them Just checked and it seems a lot think it was DV and are wrong **** it not gonna edit it
