“Self portrait in a state of fragmentation,” is not, in fact, the title of this amazing work by American everyday-object sculptor Tom Friedman. Formally, it’s “Untitled.” Anyone care to guess what it recently sold for?
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5000x what it should have sold for.
5000x 0 is still 0.
what a crap.
An arm and a leg?
I think it looks cool. I went to the linked page to see if it actually said what it sold for (it didn’t) and I had to laugh at “‘untitled’, 1999
soap and pubic hair”