New York: Sotheby's Auction

I attended a Sotheby's auction in New York last week. An incredible experience. I'm mistaken when I say at the end that Van Gogh's "The Fields" sold for $25 million. In fact, the painting received no bids and failed to sell.

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[thriftshopninja]

Sotheby's is everything that is wrong and poisonous to the art world.

[RoulinBrooks]

How so?

[thriftshopninja]

Art sold and traded for investment. Art should be alive and approachable, not a luxury item for the wealthy to be hid away in storage or in prison-like collections. It furthers turning the artist from a relatable human into some sort of god. Who decides that a painting is worth millions and another is not? Price fixing in the art trade industry came as no shock. Art is raw emotion, a soul shouting out. I don't feel comfortable with it only living among champagne and tuxedos. Art is free.

[RoulinBrooks]

I agree with you.

[RoulinBrooks]

I know. I realized afterwards and mentioned this in the comments of this video.

[KBurchfiel]

@thriftshopninja Could one make the counter-argument that (A if an artist agrees with you, they simply won't put their work up for auction, and (B art auctions support artists and also generate interest in art?

[CHIEFSMS]

#FREETHESTREETS. #STREETMONEYSQUAD @JO_DOLLAR 

[ebcebcebc123123123]

@thriftshopninja Agreed but there are countless amazing works of art you can easily approach. Some of them are probably down the street at the local gallery of coffee house. So why get so bugged out about the one's they sell at Sotheby's?

[ReppinDaNiel]

How many people could go to college with 25 million?

[Lirave]

@thriftshopninja I have to disagree with you. While the commodification of art is sad, it is necessary. If art had never promised the opportunity of such high rewards by the wealthy, many artists in the past and today would not have worked. It's tantamount to saying let's pay doctors just as much as any other tradesmen because medicine should be charitable. There would be very few doctors then.

[TinyArts]

Vincent van Gogh has more incomen with the homeless people on our streets then these dreesed up filthy rich.

[beverlypress]

Interesting..

[cosg9531]

@jimbob202019  You're kidding, right? Most famous works have images printed everywhere; books, catalogs, etc. Anyone can copy any image they wish to. Although I don't know what the point would be, unless it's only as a learning process; the copies can't be sold unless it is clearly stated that they are copies by someone other than the original artist. Seems a waste of time; just do original work.

[jimbob202019]

Art collectors only lock away art because their are so many people that want to copy the objects and just takes away the pride of what the orginal artist achivements are.

with objects being locked, no one can copy them, meaning the art is safe, also they are very well looked after.

take the chinese, they send their artist over to musems across the world to take pictures and make fake paintings back in their home country with near identical signatures.