re: DaVinci's painting of Jesus, "Salvator Mundi", sells at Christie's for $400,000,000.

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Fine art is a money laundering scheme

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It’s honestly not a bad investment if you’re rich as frick. That old shite and Jackson Pollacks and what not only go up in price.

No doubt someone on the OT has it hanging up in their backroom.

Not surprised. The fine art market is out of control right now. Reminds me of the collector car market but the art hasnt stopped

Whats shocking is that around 60% of the fine art sold in the world is fake

Buyer is not named. (From what I read the bid came to Christie's people in Hong Kong). The estate of a Russian who bought it about a decade ago for 123 million gets the money.
Remember the darned thing sold for $60 when it was not thought to be the real thing, but by a painter under the master.

Some say the background is dead.

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Who bought it, and who gets the money?

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The way the people on here brag about their money I'm sure it was an OT poster. TAF sold it for a seat license.

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Fine art is a money laundering scheme

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Do tell

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Then it dropped off the grid for another 50 years until resurfacing in Louisiana in 2005. There, for $10,000, New York-based art collector and da Vinci expert Robert Simon and art dealer Alexander Parish found and purchased it, the New Orleans Advocate reported.

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Damn, I bid $9,500.

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So someone is dropping $400,000,000 for a picture to hang on the wall, and I’m wondering how I’m going to afford the few extra hundred dollars to provide healthcare for my children. shite’s fubar.

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If it makes you feel any better, it’s not really worth much of anything and the money it’s worth is made up too.

once the breaking point is reached and the fiat currency stops flowing, once the hunger sets in...you’ll be able to buy fine art for a box of ammo and a few cans of beans.

But you won’t even have to buy it. You’ll be able to raid palatial manors and help yourself to the rotting splendor of these halcyon days once the reckoning comes. If you survive at least.

The mounds of dead will pile high. Da Vinci’s and Picasso’s will be burned for warmth. We live in a false world now, where all is topsy turvy, where men pretend to be ladies and fools claim it to be so. We live in an age of wonder and splendor and idiocy.

It is a soft age. An age of clay and ore and tinder.

One day a spark will alight the kindling and set it all ablaze. And it shall burn bright. Some will he molded into vessels; Some will be forged into blades, But most will burn.

Most, will burn.

400 Million dollars for a painting of a man who would tell you to take the 400 million dollars and feed the poor. There’s some real irony in all of this.