I rarely, if ever criticize others art preferences - who's to say one person's Gainsborough is better than another's Liechtenstein? And while I may not covet one artist's "yard-square patch of grass" art installation, it's fair game for anyone else to crave it.
However, when some dipstick pays FOUR MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS for a dull as ditchwater photo of a bit of indiscriminate water, someone needs to say "Oi! Double You Tee Eff!" And today, that "someone" is me.
Yesterday, an un-named collector stumped up $4.3m at a Christie's auction for this 1999 (yes, it's not even an old classic) photograph of 50 yards of the river Rhine.
You'd probably be hard-pushed to pay that for a freaking mansion on the banks of The Rhine, let alone this underwhelming snap of the grey river.
The 1999 photograph by German artist Andreas Gursky. Titled "Rhein II," is a chromogenic color print face-mounted to acrylic glass.
No, even with that additional data it's not worth 4.3 dollars, let alone 4.3 million!
The 1999 photograph by German artist Andreas Gursky. Titled "Rhein II," is a chromogenic color print face-mounted to acrylic glass.
No, even with that additional data it's not worth 4.3 dollars, let alone 4.3 million!
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