Candida Hofer Mania!!!
OK.. now while there were many shocking prices paid at this weeks NYC Photography Auctions.
This Lot at Phillips on Thursday Nights Food Fight Auction certainly needs to be put in the "What in the World are these CRAZY people thinking!!" category.
This 2004 photo by Candida Hofer, Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal Den Haag III, 2004, Color Coupler print, 59 1/4 by 47 1/4 inches, Signed in ink on the label, with typed title, date, and numbered 6 of and edition of 6. Sold for a total insane cost of $90,000.
Why?
What am I missing??
you're missing one of the other six.
Posted by: A.J. | October 20, 2006 at 05:21 PM
Actually.. MAO..
I think, you're missing The $90,000 Bucks to BURN!!
Posted by: tom b | October 20, 2006 at 06:41 PM
Another misogynistic art collector. lol. I'm actually happy about the price. Good for her!
Posted by: Kenny T | October 21, 2006 at 02:13 PM
I think you are missing the "believe everything the Consensus Crowd believes", herd mentality. Thank God. Keep to your own vision!
Posted by: Mark Staff Brandl | October 21, 2006 at 03:39 PM
Its just more of the same:
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/gursky/99cent_pop.html
Could we do a series of "guess the artist" with these?
--Darin
Posted by: Darin Boville | October 22, 2006 at 04:25 AM
maybe it really went with the color scheme
Posted by: JH | October 23, 2006 at 12:31 PM
KennyT.. Me?? MAO? A misogynistic art collector? No Way!
I think I probably own more Art & Photography produced by women then men.. Nikki S. Lee, Nan Golden, Cindy Sherman, Susan Derges, Berenice Abbott, Helen Levitt, Shirin Neshat, etc.. MAO loves them all!!
Actually I don't hate the Candida Hofer work.. just these prices are INSANE, even if the Photo does match the buyer's Sofa!! Thanks JH.. But $90K is crazy!!
Posted by: Mike | October 23, 2006 at 01:40 PM
Oh, I know you're not misogynistic, MAO! Just ribbing.
BUT, compared to her contemporaries (and that would be Struth, Ruff, Gursky, et. al), she's cheap. I feel much of her work stands up to theirs and honestly think she gets the short end of the price stick because she is female. A female who represented Germany in Venice. Not even those guys have done that. She's still a relative bargain.
Posted by: Kenny T | October 24, 2006 at 04:17 PM
Why not Candida? My god, pictures of convenience stores by Gursky sell for 20 times as much. I think it may be genetic, but Hofer's pictures are electrifying to me. Go figure.
Posted by: Erik Schneider | November 03, 2006 at 03:00 PM
MAO... you forgot... It's PRETTY!!
What else would matter in this crazy art world??
Posted by: art blog lover | March 11, 2007 at 06:44 PM
I would like to send an e-mail to candida hofer. Please would someone help me? Thanks.
Posted by: ANGEL CREMADES | April 14, 2007 at 05:21 AM
I guess you are just to dumb to understand art and art theory!
Posted by: Mobutu Sese Seko | June 05, 2009 at 06:36 PM
fART for fARTS sake!
Posted by: quietdepths | May 24, 2010 at 03:38 AM