The middle of November 2016 was a rough time for a lot of people, but at least you didn’t flop trying to cash out on your 9-ft tall bronze silkscreened painting by an imaginary art bro collab of a fake statue of an emperor’s butt.
[Unless, of course, you are the owner of Bruce High Quality Foundation’s The View (2013), whose art advisor and auction experts had assured you that $60-70,000 was not an unreasonable expectation. Whoops. I hope you’ll share the insights you’ve gleaned from enjoying living with this prodigious painting for an extra 7.5 years.]
I honestly don’t know where we are on BHQF these days, but this certainly appears to be one of their works. The View is nominally of one of the greatest artworks in the world, the triumphal Roman equestrian bronze monument to Marcus Aurelius. But in fact, that Michelangelo base means it’s in the Campidoglio, not in the Capitoline Museum, so it is the 1981 replica. And though the proximate view the Bruces have given us is of the emperor’s and his horse’s ass, it remains for us to fill in the actual view beyond, which is of the city from the hill, across the piazza.
The View is for sale again tomorrow, Wednesday, with no reserve, and a 90%+ lower estimate. If you’re feeling lucky and have high ceilings, tomorrow could be your lucky day. The winning bid currently stands at $200. [15 minutes later update: and it is now $1,200. This post has awakened the greg.org mob of thousandaires.] [update: sold, for $2,160, so an $1800 bid?]