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=10 November 2004= For a contemporary account of the works sold at the 10 November 2004 auction, see Carter Horsley: Contemporary Art: Christie’s November 10, 2004 Sale 1431 
 * Assume you could own any one of the works sold at the 10 November 2004 Christie's auction described by Thornton. Which one would you pick? To post your answer, first watch the Flickr slide show below which contains all the works in the sale. Then click on the discussion board post "10 November 2004" below and follow the instructions in that post.**

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=11 March, 2010=

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 * View a slide show of the 11 March 2010 sale
 * See a complete list of lots and prices for the 11 March 2010 sale


 * The Christie's auction of contemporary art on 11 March 2010 does not feature as many works by big name artists as the 10 November 2004 show described by Thornton. The highest valuation in the sale is the $120K for Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #194" shown below. It does feature, however, many more younger artists whose work is more "affordable." What would you buy if you could own just one work? To decide, click on the Christie's banner above and browse the offerings. Then click on the discussion board post "11 March 2010" and follow the instructions in that post.**

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 * ~ [[image:Sherman.JPG]] ||~  ||~ == CINDY SHERMAN (B. 1954) ==

Untitled #194 color coupler print mounted on aluminum in artist's frame 46¾ x 32¼ in. (118.7 x 81.9 cm.) Executed in 1989. This work is number one from an edition of six Lot Description Estimate $90,000 - $120,00

Metro Pictures, New York Galerie Crousel-Robelin/Bama, Paris

A. Danto, //Cindy Sherman: History Portraits//, New York, 1991, p. 30 (illustrated in color). C. Sherman and M. Menguzzo, //Cindy Sherman//, exh. cat., Milan, 1990, p. 69 (illustrated)

Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, //Cindy Sherman//, May 2006-September 2007, pp. 141, 257 (illustrated; another example exhibited).

In her series, //History Portraits//, Sherman created thirty-five works that are her own unique renditions of historical portraits. She poses as the classical sitter in her portraits, using props, cheap costume jewelry, wigs, and fake appendages to assume the characters that serve as the signifiers of an amalgamated but anonymous classical high art figure. In works such as //Untitled #194//, Sherman masquerades as a man and this gender reversal has been associated with the work of Marcel Duchamp and the famous image of herself in drag as his alter-ego Rrose Sélavy.

"There is something liberating in the way in which Sherman takes aim at the sheer weirdness of Old Master art." (A. Arenas, "Afraid of the Dark: Cindy Sherman and the Grotesque Imagination," exh. cat., //Cindy Sherman//, Shiga, 1996, p. 46). || =Jeff Koons= Why would anyone pay $2.6 million for three vacuum cleaners in an acrylic case? Read one of the great "art as idea" intellectual hypes of all time at Jeff Koons =Andy Warhol= Why did one Warhol sell for nearly 15X more than the other? Read Carter Horsley's take at Andy Warhol
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