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Word: silverwig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1994-1994
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Generally, things made closer to the present fared much worse, and for quite a number of recent darlings of the market, such as Julian Schnabel and Andy / Warhol, the silence was funereal. The surprise, perhaps, is not that a Warhol made only $190,000; the prices of Old Silverwig's work have been going downhill like a runaway bobsled. The true mystery is who on earth could have actually wanted to own a 31-ft. pastiche of Leonardo's Last Supper overlaid with green camouflage patterns. Is some Christian fundamentalist group planning to open a restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Auctions in the Pits | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

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