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I listed some random paintings on eBay

I’ll be working my way through and bidding on an item or two…

” The Boston Globe’s 4th annual Auction for Education is a fun and exciting opportunity to get good deals on everything from tickets to sporting events to one of a kind experiences, while furthering the cause of literacy in New England Schools. 100% of the funds raised from the auction are used to provide classrooms with The Boston Globe and educational materials correlated to the MCAS.”

The Boston Globe’s 4th annual Auction for Education

You probably need to register with Sotheby’s to view the listing.

AN IMPRESSIVE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A HORSE TANG DYNASTY

Here’s what it looks like if you don’t have the proper credentials…

There are two horses like this in the MFA and back when I had time to go once a week and just wander the hallways I ran into them. It was covet at first sight. Of course, with the $200,000-$300,000 estimate, a magnificent example like this one is out of my price range, but I’m still young

The biggest problem going forward with these for me (aside from getting to be rich, which is already on my agenda) will be fending off interest in Chinese antiquities from the newly rich Chinese themselves. There’s a lot of interest in Chinese art from China these days and with the prospects of that country that trend doesn’t seem like it will slow down any time soon.

Maybe I should have bought some lottery tickets last night to potentially speed up the process.

Pretty fucking cool.

eBay: VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 1966 Acetate LP ANDY WARHOL

The Pollock auction record is $11,500,000 so David Geffen’s sale of No 5, 1948 for $140,000,000 is something of a jaw-dropping result.

It’s also the American high price paid by some other insane multiple (I want to say at least 3 or 4 times.) I know the American record at auction is a Bellows painting that sold for around $27,000,000, but I’m pretty sure there were a couple of private sales north of that (Homer maybe?)

Here’s the painting, by the way:

Inverted Jenny.

HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC La blanchisseuse

A VIOLIN KNOWN AS THE LADY TENNANT, CREMONA, 1699 ANTONIO STRADIVARI

Two ‘Dogs Playing Poker’ paintings fetch $590,400 at Doyle’s - Feb. 16, 2005

FOXSports.com - SOCCER - Manchester United jersey fetches US$36,900 at charity auction
“A pair of sports shoes belonging to Hong Kong actor Stephen Chow fetched HK$100,000.”