1. Untitled (1970) by Cy Twombly priced at $69.6 Million
Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr. was an American painter known as “Cy Twombly”.
He was famous for his scribble-like artwork.
High regard for Twombly artworks, gained him a contract for the ceiling of one of the rooms in Paris’s Musée du Louvre.
In fact, an untitled 1970 blackboard painting set a record for him when it sold for $69.6 million during a Christie’s art sale in 2014.
The piece was part of a series created between 1967 and 1971, the technique for the works involving Twombly standing on the shoulders of a friend while the assistant walked back and forth.
The result was continuous, fluid lines that stood out in sharp contrast to the predominantly grey backgrounds.
Do you think that these expensive art pieces so simple that a child could have made are worth they money people spent on them? Would you have spend that much money on a piece that a child could have made?
