JOHN'S FLAG SETS RECORD

 

A Jasper Johns painting of an American flag from the estate of writer Michael Crichton sold for a record $28.6 million tonight at Christie’s International in New York. The work titled “Flag,” created between 1960 and 1966 with wax encaustic and newspaper, was expected to sell for as much as $15 million.

Christopher Wool's brash painting FOOL painted in 1990 realized $5,010,500! Both prices include the buyers premium. Art world insiders expected the prices to go ballistic tonight, and they did!!