$2.3 million – a bargain!
Maurizio Cattelan’s sculpture of two upside-down policemen, which had sold last year for $1.5 million, sold for $2.3 million to a Russian buyer at Phillips.
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That works out at $1.15 million per copper.
Bought last year for 1.5 and bought this year for 2.3?
Typical, in my day they would stay bought.
But is it art?
These are good questions to vex the mind.
I’ve known a lot of cops who did everything ass-backwards, but none that were upside-down.