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Screenshot of Christie’s system for turning Picassos into Hulk sculptures I love this so much. Next week Christie’s is selling nine paintings, ranging from Dutch masters to Picassos, with an estimate of up to $100 million, that are the Property of A Distinguished Collector. As Brian Boucher reported, that’s no Distinguished Collector, it’s a Distinguished Artist: Jeff Koons. And indeed, the works all appear on Collection New York, the website of an anonymous collector—subsequently unmasked as Koons—that used to make the works available for exhibition or study. It disappeared, but I collected it in 2015. amazing, they look exactly the same online: Eric Doeringer Bootleg Series versions of Jeff Koons’s Cornelisz and Picassos, at Rago Wright Anyway, now another Distinguished Artist, Eric Doeringer, is getting the jump on Koons. Doeringer is staging a ten-lot auction at Rago Wright, ending Monday, a day before the 20th Century sale at Christie’s, which includes his Bootleg Series versions…

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