STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Monday, 4 November 2013

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32. there is only 1 reason to regret not having buckets of money and this is it.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ART_AUCTIONS_PREVIEW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-11-04-13-14-28

RECORD PRICES EXPECTED AT NYC FALL ART AUCTIONS

NEW YORK (AP) -- Potential buyers will have to dig deep as New York City's frenzied fall auction season gets underway with blockbuster works of art poised to set records.

Among the blue-chip offerings is Andy Warhol's "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)," a provocative double-panel painting that Sotheby's estimates could bring as much as $80 million at its Nov. 13 postwar and contemporary sale. The current Warhol auction record is $71.7 million for "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)," set in 2007.

A day earlier, Christie's is offering a 1969 triptych by Francis Bacon of his friend and artist Lucian Freud. The auction house says "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" could topple the $86 million auction record for the artist set in 2008 for his 1976 "Triptych."

It remains to be seen if either can surpass the nearly $120 million paid at Sotheby's in spring 2012 for Edvard Munch's "The Scream." The painting is the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.


***well, this and the option to buy a true couture ball gown.
la croix would be my poison in that case.