Lot 211 - Phillips De Pury, Modern and Contemporary Editions, November 23rd
ED RUSCHA
Yo, 1991
Lithograph, on Arches paper, with full margins, I. 6 x 4 1/4 in. (15.2 x 10.8 cm) S. 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)  signed, dated and numbered 7/30 in pencil (there was also an edition of 10 in Roman numerals), published by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque (with their blindstamps), in excellent condition, framed.
ESTIMATE $1,800-2,500

For this months Interesting Lots, I decided to turn my attention to the print market and two auctions happening in the coming week, Prints & Multiples at Christie’s in London and a very strong Modern and Contemporary Editions at Phillips De Pury in New York.  Big names and great pieces at affordable prices.  After the jump, some excellent options.

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Gene P has a crazy ex-girlfriend.  For a while now there have been a slew of comments defamating the character of our expatriated correspondent. We thought they came internally, until today when a comment was entered into a post about delicious donut muffins that could not have been written by any of our friends.  It was rude and will not be repeated. However, with some easy internet sleuthing I found out who it was written by. A bitter Ex-Girlfriend. So in response, just for kicks, I posted another lame comment from her which you can still read here, or below.

“Gene P - Your girlfriend is a roast beef face! Ditch that dog! Just because she’s french doesn’t make her a babe! I expect better out of you. And C_Quoi - Your post makes absolutely no sense. Learn how to speak English! Or maybe you were just drunk?”

Moral of the story is this: Anna you’re crazy. Get over Gene P and move on, he is not even in this country anymore.  Also, if you comment from the same computer, it has the same IP address. So you can change your name as many times as you want, but the IP address will never change. Anonymity on the internet is a joke.

Have a nice day and chill out.

Yours Truly,

The Enablist

Pure Wisdom

photo (I typed in art market into google images)

Jerry Saltz breaks it down for New York Magazine.

Some of my favorites

“As for artists, too many have been getting away with murder, making questionable or derivative work and selling it for inflated prices. They will either lower their prices or stop selling. Many younger artists who made a killing will be forgotten quickly. Others will be seen mainly as relics of a time when marketability equaled likability.”

“I hope many of the speculators who never really cared about art will go away. Either way, money will no longer be the measure of success. It hasn’t made art better. It made some artists—notably Hirst, Murakami, Prince, and maybe Piotr Ukla´nski—shallower.”

Read the article here

Take notes.