Not comics but I couldn’t help but notice this story on the BBC site this morning about a large auction of modern art at Sotheby’s in London. Artists represented included Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Jeff Koon and Lucio Fontana among others, with sales totaling in excess of a staggering £95 million. Warhol’s 1986 work Three Portraits (below) alone accounted for over £11 million. Well my little sketch of Dan Dare by Gary Erskine might not fetch that kind of sum if it went to auction, but monetary value aside I know I’d rather see Colonel Dare on my wall than a triple-headed Warhol.
(footage from Andy Warhol’s secret audition for the role of Holly, the senile AI computer in Red Dwarf; Andy lost out to the star power of Norman Lovett)
Thu, Feb 28, 2008
Art and animation