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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

quadrophrenic posted:

But I've never been a big visual art appreciator at all, and I just read from somewhere that Number 5 is currently worth ~$300m USD

Art valuation is so high because it's one of the last unregulated ways for organized crime to launder money internationally. For a while it was million-dollar wine bottles, now it's paintings.

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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Last Buffalo posted:

Links/sources, plz. Sounds interesting.

It's common in China and difficult to proescute here in the US because you can't put a price on art other than what someone will pay for it.

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