Mschf bought an original Andy Warhol for $20k and made 999 exact forgeries

https://twitter.com/landforce/status/1457383573929873417

by mantesso • 5 years ago

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jameslk• 5 years ago

Clever, but I think the real business model behind this has more to do with the economics of lotteries. That is, perhaps they could have pulled the same stunt without making 999 replicas but rather selling a ticket to win the Andy Warhol and ended up with same result. But then they couldn't have made their counterculture point I guess.

chasebro• 5 years ago

Nah, it’s no fun for 999 people to end up with a useless lottery ticket, this way everyone ends up with wall art and a fun story. Much more entertaining than just buying a reproduction, much cheaper than buying an original.

boublepop• 5 years ago

The way art works, the 999 authentic fakes will end up being worth more than the 1 boring original.

swearwolf• 5 years ago

I feel like Andy would love this if he was still alive today. Although he was a talented artist, his real art was in making money, and he wasn’t above a little subterfuge to do it. He used to hire impersonators to do his public performances for him.

tinus_hn• 5 years ago

Isn’t half of his work repurposing generic advertising material as art?

HWR_14• 5 years ago

I feel like there will definitely be a way to tell the original apart, with sufficient skill/tech (after all, forgeries are uncovered). The question is who will take the 99.9% risk of devaluing their painting by having it tested and turned into a a definite forgery.

Mschf bought an original Andy Warhol for $20k and made 999 exact forgeries

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