This week's sales at Sotheby's art auction house in New York City blew the cover off the one percenters, if they ever had one. Here's a silly illustration of the insanity.
Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis sold for $81.9 million, or 14,393,673 Big Mac Meals (from here on referred to as BMM).
Untitled (I wonder why) 1970 by Cy Twombly sold for $69.6 million, or 11,677,582 BMM.
Another untitled, by Mark Kippenberger, 1988, sold for $22.6 million, or 3,971,880 BMM.
Balloon Monkey (Orange) by Jeff Koons sold for $25.9 million or 4,551,845 BMM. It also comes in other colors.
Untitled XXIV (not good at making up titles?) by Willem de Kooning, sold for $17.5 million, or 3,075,571 BMM.
Reflections on the Prom, 1990, by Roy Lichtenstein sold for $21.4 million, or 3,760,984 BMM.
Last year this Triptych by Francis Bacon sold for a record $142.4 million, or 25,026,362 BMM. Well after all, they did get three paintings for the price of one.
Ronald, you may have chosen the wrong business!
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