It doesn’t take a genius to do a double-take when looking at Stanley Casselman’s paintings and mistake them for real Gerhard Richters. Confusion reins until you read the story behind them, in the words of New York Magazine’s art critic Jerry Saltz: ‘I love art, but I hate the astronomical prices it sells for. My skin crawls when I read about auctions, and every year they get grosser. Last month, a livingartist record was set when a 1994 abstract Gerhard Richter painting was sold for $34.2 million. Like a lot of these purchases, the sale was about a collector trying to make art history by spending money. Or bigdick-waving. Ugh.’
Stanley Casselman: Inhaling Richter
Stanley Casselman: Inhaling Richter
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