Collectors Continue To Throw Money Around

Records continue to fall at New York’s spring art auctions. “Three sculptures — one fashioned from a dozen African masks, a dead deer cast in bronze, and a ball of painted and chromium-plated steel mangled as if hit by a truck — by some of today’s most popular artists brought record prices last night at Phillips de Pury & Company.” But the real star of the night was yet another Warhol – one of the artist’s soup can paintings went for $3m.