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Article: The irresistible glitz and lure of Contemporary creation CONTEMPORARY ART: A SPECIAL REPORT
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- June 14, 2003
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Everybody is rushing to buy Contemporary art these days. It is the
hottest game in town. At Christie's on May 13, they sold $68.78 million,
$10 million more than Impressionist and Modern art a week earlier.
Buyers feel comfortable with it because it looks so familiar. Many
of the art works were the kind of stuff you see in kitchens and bathrooms.
Only it's Art, and that makes them more expensive. Take Andy Warhol'
s Campbell Soup cans. The painter started out as a poster designer
and went on to do poster-style pictures. At Christie's his ''Campbell'
s Soup Can (Pepper Pot)'' fetched $2,415,500. The picture is a straightforward
image of a soup can filling the frame on a ...