Sold for £ 53,8 million
A Mark Rothko
painting was sold last week for £53,8 million at Christie’s. An anonymous
collector paid a record of 53.8
million for what the Sun calls “ a block
of orange and yellow paint on a red background”. Although all the contemporary
art works that were auctioned, were
aggressively priced, buyers bid even more than Christie’s had calculated. It
seems that, in spite of world-economic downfall and world -political disputes, the art market is doing well. In
times of economic uncertainty people have the tendency of investing their
income, their money in things like gold and art. That is; for the people who
can effort this.
Just like all other
paintings which are sold for enormous sums of money, the first thought that
comes to mind is: How is this possible? And maybe even: Isn’t this ridiculous? Please spend this
money on healthcare or education! Then I
think of another painting, The scream from Edvard Munch and numerous others, all sold for millions of dollars
each. Paintings have a price, but these prices are build on sentimental value.
The sad part is that most of these paintings are being sold to anonymous owners
and therefore we probably will never see these paintings back again. They’ll
probably end up in Russia or the Middle East, in some palace or grand manor. I
think it’s a shame that art disappears into the hands of private owners who only have these artworks
as a financial investment. Famous artworks
are a cultural heritage and therefore should be publicly shown.
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