Guffwatch - Koons Special (ctd.)

May 9 2014

Video: Christie's

Standby for a deluge of multi-million dollar mega art sales over the next two weeks, as Sotheby's and Christie's hold their New York contemporary sales. A 'highlight' of the week is one of Jeff Koons' toy trains, which you can see the artist sounding off guffily about above. Robert Hughes, where are you..?

This version of Koons' train is apparently expected to sell for up to $35m. It's one of four; another sold for just $5.5m in 2004. Bubble, anyone? 

Here at the Daily Mail you can see a load of gratuitous blond-bird-with-white-gloves shots. There's also a Francis Bacon triptych with the ubiquitous leggy-bird-walking-blurrily-past-the-painting shots.

Update - it made $33.7m.


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