Friday 22 June 2007

Freud Breaks Record

Lucian Freud - Bruce Bernard (1992)This gloomy impressionistic caricature of Bruce Bernard by Lucian Freud fetched £7.8m at Christie's sale of post-war and contemporary art in London recently. According to BBC News, this is the highest price ever paid for a work by a living European artist. I guess it's another one for the vault. What tasteless jerk would want this uninspiring mess hanging on his living-room wall?

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