more auction nuttiness @ christie's

Francois-Xavier Lalanne

"Mouton De Pierre"

A group of ten painted epoxy and patinated bronze sheep

Designed circa 1979

Lot 303

Estimate: $600-900,000.00

Yep, 

someone was expected to pay between just over

a half a million dollars, up to almost 1 million

dollars for some plastic and metal 

garden decorations.

Oh wait, that's art.

They kinda look like those foam 

practice shooting targets I see in

hillbilly's yards when I go down South:

McKenzie HD Mountain Goat Target

DuraCore

2011

Sells for $439.99

There they are at their last home,

in the yard, 

I mean on the grounds 

of the 

Tateshina Open Air Museum,

Nagano Japan.

So what did they bring?

Hold on to your britches....

Seven million, four hundred and seventy-four thousand, five hundred dollars.

$7,474,500.00,

or 

$747,450.00 a sheep.

No shit.

Can you imagine having that kinda money to drop on some 

yard decorations,

 I mean garden art, 

I mean

grounds sculpture?

Mind blowing really....

Congrats Christie's, 

on an amazing, 

truly amazing, 

bit of auctioneering....