June 2nd, 2017: Contemporary Art Sale

[Snakeadelic]

I find the one at the very top the most baffling. Sure, that's some nice marble varieties...but you could buy a marble makeover for every room in a house for that much! The top slab might be Carrera, just about the most famous and valued sculptural marble in the world--which is why, after several thousand years of statuary and architectural stone production, the Carrera quarries in Italy are running out at last.

Modern art has baffled me for decades. These days, if it looks like something Gwyneth Paltrow would buy, I pay very little attention...but I'm a snob that way. I like my art more traditional; more about a recognizable representational image. I've only been to a few exhibitions and major museum events, but those were well worth it: a little place in Seattle with lots of Wyeth family works many years ago, the Faberge Menagerie exhibit when it stopped in Portland, the traveling M.C. Escher show (I went through twice), and stepping into a room full of sketches and sculptures by Auguste Rodan at the Maryhill Museum--which included a signed plaster study for 'The Thinker'. I'll stick with my appreciating traditional art with basic, boring, no-stretching-limits representational images.