From time to time I report on the doings of our Dame Trace, for example on May 12th 2010 in the other place. Today I read in the NYRB of the different approach taken to the emperor's new clothes in Houston, Texas, where I can obtain a beautifully framed print of the lithograph illustrated left for around $8,500. If we allow 8.5 minutes for the execution of the lithograph, we arrive at the quite reasonable remuneration of $50,000 dollars a minute, less gallery commission. Not bad, perhaps about the same per minute as Dame Trace would have got for her 'A litter bin emptied onto a bed', had she got what it is now said to be changing hands for, that is to say around $1,000,000. Perhaps they teach you at art school about the nice judgement needed between 50 shots at it for so much and 1 shot at it for so much more.
Further amused to read in Wikipedia that Anderson adapted his story about bourgeois foolishness from a Spanish original about people of doubtful paternity.
Hiram Butler are to be found at
http://hirambutler.com/, where they are far too discrete to talk about money. For that one has to ask Professor Google who comes up with
http://originalprints.com/.
PS: I was interested to read in the same NYRB of an important difference between the leaks of Snowden and the leaks of Assange, which had until then had passed me by. Snowden leaked his documents to responsible journalists who made responsible use of them while Assange just dumped the whole lot out onto the web with scant regard for the consequences.
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