It just went from a one nonspecific sculpture in a run of 799, to an absolutely unique item from that set with a specific historical lineage. The other 798 are no different than each other, but this is the only one among them that had this happen to it. So now it's priced more like his other singular works.

Depending on who you ask, those broken fragments are a one-of-a-kind.

Five quatloos for the tail.

Money laundering

If they offered the same or double the price I would be still raising my eyebrows a bit but 15M lmao, how blatant is that.

Wow, the art world has literally become a Donald Duck cartoon!

I remember when I was a kid one of my favourite Donald Duck installations was one where Donald accidentally breaks an antique and invaluable vase, and some art people goes crazy for the shards, and so Donald launches a new career as an artist where people bring their Ming dynasty vases to him, and he goes to town on them with power tools.

I don't recall quite how it ends, but I think the trend passes and he's left with a bunch of worthless shards. I think Scrooge was angry for some reason as well...

I liked it at the time because it was such an absurd concept. Guess it wasn't nearly as absurd as I thought!