Obscene

[Barriebazg]

If you need to ask you'll never know ...

Indeed

[chubba]

Plus - those Rothko paintings are f***ing massive, it probably only works out at $10 a square cm

That is what I meant by having seen one up close. It certainly isn't A4 sized and shoved in a frame like something "from IKEA".

[sasguru]

How is this art?? And how is it worth $73 million

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If you need to ask you'll never know ...

[threaded]

Somebody is currently paying £x hundred per day for my code so it would be churlish of me to comment.

I add liberal comments.

[chubba]

Love the Francis Bacon - he is one of my all time fave's.

You ever seen a Rothko "in the flesh"? Do you understand it's importance in the world of art?

[AtW]

Normally what happens is that pot-head artist who made it dies from starvation in your age, and his collection of "works" get acquired on the cheap by someone else who after many decades of wait will make a killing on resale of said arts.

[Burdock]

it's the sort of painting you find in offices...or replicated in Ikea...

[Lockhouse]

Somebody is currently paying £x hundred per day for my code so it would be churlish of me to comment.

[Moscow Mule]

It's a bit like buying a BMW over a Skoda, you're paying for the name...

Plus - those Rothko paintings are f***ing massive, it probably only works out at $10 a square cm

[Barriebazg]

Because someone was willing to pay that

OK fair response I guess!! Why the f**k would someone want to spend that sort of money on that then? Just purely cos they can I assume.

[zathras]

how is it worth $73 million

Because someone was willing to pay that

[Barriebazg]

How is this art?? And how is it worth $73 million

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