Article: 'Party Animals' Fetch $1.2 Million

The recent live and online auctions of "Party Animals" street sculptures raised about $1.1 million for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and its grants and arts education programs.

Results of the live auction were published in District Extra Nov. 7. Below is a list of the "Party Animals" auctioned online and who bought them. In parentheses are their type, if not clear in the name, and their old and new sites. The commission kept some of the sculptures and plans to display them publicly throughout the city.

A Donkey of a Different Color -- $4,300, Allen Barlow.

(Old: 21st and H streets NW; New: Bethesda.)

A Garden of Earthly Delights: Persian Fantasy (E) -- $4,350, Jim Ratzul.

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