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“More than 100 respondents to the survey identified as gallery directors, the majority of whom were making more than $100,000, with a few top earners reaching toward the millions.
“The work’s authenticity remains an open question.
“Hauser is also playing a long game.
They pair Audemars Piguet watches with Vans sneakers.
While the bags she created for the brand were being sold, her original paintings were being presented on the VIP floor of the Vuitton store on Bond Street in London.
It’s a way to allocate part of an investment portfolio to fine art while avoiding both the logistical downsides—and the psychic upsides—of actually living with art.
“Her post pointed back to her viral story in the Cut from last September, in which she details how Prince—a “fancy artist worth a lot more money than I am”—appropriated several of her Instagram posts and sold them as his own works a half-decade ago.
The result: a whopping $130 million-plus achieved for the work, Me and My Parrot, from 1941.