Bid For Fake Sunflower Seeds And Picasso’s Sex Life At Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale

THERE is money in art. Lots of it. At Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, London, you can get close to a bowl of Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds. You can buy 100 kilos of his life-sized porcelain “seeds” for between £80,000 and £120,000. The portrait of Frans Hellens by Amedeo Modigliani is earmarked at £3 million. David Hockney’s Hotel L’Arbois Sainte Maxime of 1968, should fetch £2 million. The triptych, three studies for a portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon, will go for a lot more than £9 million. And for any banker aiming to look arty, the Picasso Portrait of his mistress and muse Marie-Therese from 1932 is expected to fetch around £18 million. And you thought extra-martial sex never paid off…

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David Hockney's Hotel L'Arbois Sainte Maxime of 1968, estimated to fetch £2 million, goes on display at the Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, London.

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Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: The Consumer Comment | TrackBack | Permalink