Interesting Facts

A sketch, bought at a jumble sale in Los Angeles for $5, could be worth over $2 million. (The sketch is thought to be by a young Andy Warhol, and probably created when he was just 10 or 11 years old, is up for sale on eBay for a whopping $1.9 million.   This news has probably prompted parents all over the world to suddenly start storing their little treasure's scribbles.)

A black and white painting of a big bottle of Coca Cola has sold for 35.3 million dollars at Sotheby's New York contemporary art auction. (Why? Well because,"Large Coca Cola", was painted by Andy Warhol and the extravagant price might have something to do with this article in Time magazine on how the banks are buying up contemporary art (banks have always been able to convince us that worthless pieces of paper are valuable). The head of contemporary art at Sotheby's described Warhol as "an icon of global desire." Each to his own, but as far as icons go, Warhol is way below Wallace and Gromit for me.)