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“Meanwhile at the same Sotheby’s sale, something else happened. The wonderful British painter Jenny Saville achieved a world-record price for a living female artist with her superb self-portrait ‘Propped’, selling at £9.5m. No tricks, no jokes, just sublimely good work.”
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“Yet the whole world is talking about a man-prank. Perhaps it is indeed true, as others have said, that we get the art market we deserve.” — Banksy, trust and the art market — the inside story ft.com/content/f62a69d2-cd45-11e8-b276-b9069bde0956 via @FinancialTimes (paywalled)