more auction nuttiness @ christie'sFrancois-Xavier Lalanne"Mouton De Pierre"A group of ten painted epoxy and patinated bronze sheepDesigned circa 1979Lot 303Estimate: $600-900,000.00Yep, someone was expected to pay between just overa half a million dollars, up to almost 1 milliondollars for some plastic and metal garden decorations.Oh wait, that's art.They kinda look like those foam practice shooting targets I see inhillbilly's yards when I go down South:McKenzie HD Mountain Goat TargetDuraCore2011Sells for $439.99There they are at their last home,in the yard, I mean on the grounds of the Tateshina Open Air Museum,Nagano Japan.So what did they bring?Hold on to your britches....Seven million, four hundred and seventy-four thousand, five hundred dollars.$7,474,500.00,or $747,450.00 a sheep.No shit.Can you imagine having that kinda money to drop on some yard decorations, I mean garden art, I meangrounds sculpture?Mind blowing really....Congrats Christie's, on an amazing, truly amazing, bit of auctioneering....
Francois-Xavier Lalanne"Mouton De Pierre"A group of ten painted epoxy and patinated bronze sheepDesigned circa 1979Lot 303Estimate: $600-900,000.00
Yep, someone was expected to pay between just overa half a million dollars, up to almost 1 milliondollars for some plastic and metal garden decorations.Oh wait, that's art.They kinda look like those foam practice shooting targets I see inhillbilly's yards when I go down South:
McKenzie HD Mountain Goat TargetDuraCore2011Sells for $439.99
There they are at their last home,in the yard, I mean on the grounds of the Tateshina Open Air Museum,Nagano Japan.
So what did they bring?Hold on to your britches....Seven million, four hundred and seventy-four thousand, five hundred dollars.$7,474,500.00,or $747,450.00 a sheep.No shit.Can you imagine having that kinda money to drop on some yard decorations, I mean garden art, I meangrounds sculpture?Mind blowing really....Congrats Christie's, on an amazing, truly amazing, bit of auctioneering....