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- May 20, 1991: That Costly Object Of Desire
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- That Costly Object Of Desire
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- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> The art market is in a tailspin, but no one would know it
- from the attention lavished on one item auctioned in Manhattan
- last week. Objet-Dard, a 1962 Marcel Duchamp bronze casting
- owned by the estate of the late graffiti artist Keith Haring,
- was listed in the Christie's catalog at a cautiously low
- estimate of $8,000 to $10,000. (The title of the frankly phallic
- piece is a pun on objet d'art, substituting the French word for
- dart.) In a matter of seconds, bids for the 8-in. work soared
- into six figures in a battle between two unseen telephone
- bidders. The winning offer: $135,000 from a Belgian art dealer.
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