ART AND THE BOUNCY BANKER: Auction Houses Love Branding

The Bruxist Collective's take on Art and (as Alfred Jarry might put it) P'finance.

A numerically dyslexic artist (and reluctant consumer) shares his dearth of financial wisdom and resulting frustrations with his Bank Manager. Read personal letters from the elusive Art to his even more elusive Bank Manager. See a comic rendition of a Day In The Life Of The Bouncy Banker. Art struggles to make sense of the senseless as the Authorities of Finance wobble but never quite fall down. Full of hot air they float above it all! When they bounce it is with impunity! Why are there no Remorseful Bankers? Can Art and Finance ever coexist? Do you have a Blue Chip on your shoulder?

When bankers get together they talk about Art. When artists get together they talk about money. Oscar Wilde

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Auction Houses Love Branding

Nicholas Forest writes about art and finance in his art market blog and here tells another tale of Art Market Branding. How much better to sell through an Auction House with the name Sotheby's than Bonhams and Goodman.

For more on this read The Twelve Million Dollar Stuffed Shark, The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art