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  • The Icing on the Cake

    The Icing on the Cake

    Octagonal Victorian Gothic landmark in Westchester County, New York available for rent; Bono was filmed there and it includes the only domestic Egyptian Revival room in existence

     

    A Victorian Gothic house in Irvington, Westchester County, New York that resembles a wedding cake has been put on the market to rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month).

     

    Built for a financier named Paul J. Armour between 1859 and 1860, this octagon shaped and domed landmark was subsequently home to the author Carl Carmer (1893 – 1976) – best known for his widely praised book Stars Fell on Alabama – between 1940 and his death. The building was later the main setting for the less popular (and seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959) 1981 horror film The Nesting and then completely renovated by the award winning conservationist architect Joseph Pell Lombardi.

     

    The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty
    The Octagon House in 1882 and 1975
    The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty
    The Octagon House in the 1981 film “The Nesting”; the then owner launched a $1 million lawsuit against the filmmakers after they supposedly trashed the building

     

    Known alternatively as the Armour-Stiner House, the Carmer Octagon House, The Octagon House or simply 45 West Clinton Avenue, the National Register of Historic Places listed residence is being marketed by agents William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty as “one of the most visually unique homes in the world.” It stands on a plot close to the Hudson River of 3.05 acres, provides 8,400 square foot of accommodation and has a drawing room, dining room, ballroom, 7 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Within the grounds is an original Lord & Banham conservatory and a carriage house that provides garaging for 4 vehicles.

     

    Especially impressive architectural features of the building number the only domestic Egyptian Revival room still in existence, an attic with a staircase to a stunning cupola and a wraparound veranda with 56 columns. In the 2007 film Across the Universe, the billionaire Irish singer-songwriter Bono (playing a character named ‘Dr Robert’) described The Octagon House as the “Headquarters of the League of Spiritual Deliverance.” It most definitely abounds in such.

     

    The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty The Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International RealtyThe Icing on the Cake – Armour-Stiner Carmer Octagon House, 45 West Clinton Avenue, Irvington, Westchester County, New York, NY 10533, United States of America – To rent for £30,300 per month ($40,000, €33,200 or درهم147,000 per month) through William Pitt Sotheby′s International Realty

  • Martin Gets Madder

    Martin Gets Madder

    Convicted former pharmaceuticals executive Martin Shkreli offers a bounty for Hillary Clinton’s hair and threatens to smash up a £1.5 million work by the Wu-Tang Clan

     

    Martin Shkreli is getting madder and madder. Convicted of securities fraud in August and awaiting sentencing, the troubled former drug company executive took to Facebook on 4th September to offer a bounty of £3,800 ($5,000, €4,200 or درهم18,400) per lock of Hillary Clinton’s hair obtained and is also attempting to auction or destroy the one and only copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album on eBay for £1.5 million ($2 million, €1.7 million or درهم7.3 million).

     

    After 324 bids, the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time In Shaolin album – which Shkreli purchased, he claims, “as a gift to the Wu-Tang Clan for their tremendous musical output. Instead I received scorn from at least one of their (least-intelligent) members, and the world at large failed to see my purpose of putting a serious value behind music” – has already reached a price of just over £759,000 ($1 million, €832,000 or درهم3.7 million).

     

    Accompanying the eBay listing, Shkreli brashly adds:

     

    “At any time I may cancel this sale and I may even break this album in frustration. I will donate half of the sale proceeds to medical research. I am not selling to raise cash–my companies and I have record amounts of cash on hand. I hope someone with a bigger heart for music can be found for this one-of-a-kind piece and makes it available for the world to hear.”

     

    Both the Wu-Tang Clan and Hillary Clinton stunts may backfire. Last Thursday, prosecutors told a court in New York: “[Shkreli is engaged in a] pattern of threats and harassment” and sought for his bail to be revoked. In response, Benjamin Brafman for Shkreli, commented:

     

    “We take the matter seriously and intend to address the issue responsibly… However inappropriate some of Mr Shkreli’s postings may have been, we do not believe that he intended harm and do not believe that he poses a danger to the community.”

     

    Other assets in the multi-millionaire’s possession are said to include a Picasso and an original ‘Enigma’ machine from the Second World War. We jolly well hope he doesn’t threaten to smash them up too.

     

  • Pico Alexander (born Alexander Jogalla)

    Pico Alexander (born Alexander Jogalla)

    New York born actor Pico Alexander considered starring opposite Reese Witherspoon in the 2017 film Home Again “one of the sexiest scenes of [his] life.” Of Polish heritage, Alexander is the son of a cinematographer and studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, New York City and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. This rising star avoids social media, is “fascinated by the darker sides of humanity” and has also appeared in Orange Is the New Black and War Machine alongside Brad Pitt.

     

  • Andrew Warren

    Andrew Warren

    New York socialite Andrew Warren is known primarily as the best friend of Donald Trump’s daughter, Tiffany. With 100,000 followers on Instagram and the creator of the Just Drew fashion brand, he is the son of a real estate investor and also counts fellow trustafarians Kyra Kennedy and Gaia Matisse amongst his ‘Snap Pack’ entourage.

     

    In August 2017, after bizarrely breaking his right arm in an incident in a Fort Pond, Montauk swimming pool involving an inflatable flamingo, Warren exclaimed: “It is especially hard because I use my right hand to design and for social media.”

     

    Previously, in 2016, he modestly remarked: “I don’t I should be judged for posting a photo like eating caviar at Claridge’s in London while it’s okay for someone to post a picture at McDonald’s… In the Hamptons, I’ll have McDonald’s. I’ll have days where I go to Six Flags. I venture to Coney Island. I’m not grossed out by anything. My mom likes to go to Ohio. We do things that people wouldn’t expect us to do.”

     

    Socialite and fashion designer Andrew Warren – Known primarily as the best friend of Donald Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, and for his Just Drew brand.Socialite and fashion designer Andrew Warren – Known primarily as the best friend of Donald Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, and for his Just Drew brand.

  • United in Plastic

    United in Plastic

    ‘Bride of Wildenstein’ Jocelyn Wildenstein reunites with her lover Lloyd Klein; the plastic faced couple will marry at some point in the future

     

    Yesterday, the world’s ugliest woman announced she is to marry the world’s vainest man in an exclusive feature in the DailyMail.com.

     

    According to the paper, Jocelyn Wildenstein – a New York based billionairess by divorce commonly known as the ‘Bride of Wildenstein’ and ‘Catwoman’ due to her hideous feline-like face – will not actually marry her on-off fashion designer boyfriend, Lloyd Klein, until next year and also revealed: “You never know if you’re ready for a relationship.”

     

    In the frankly ghastly interview with someone named Ben Ashford, Klein – whose startled looks also are also no doubt the result of a few visits to surgeons and scalpels – declared he himself designed the multi-million dollar 32-carat diamond ring he gave to Wildenstein and revealed he gave it to her at the Miami home where Gianni Versace was murdered on the twentieth anniversary of his death last month. He commented: “I said: ‘Jocelyn this was the day Versace died and this the day we will live.’”

     

    Pictured above: Jocelyn Wildenstein looking her normal scary self and Lloyd Klein after he had his now fiancée’s fingers dug into his skin.

     

  • Moron of the Moment – Milo Yiannopoulos

    Moron of the Moment – Milo Yiannopoulos

    ‘Trumpsexual’ paedophile apologist Milo Yiannopoulos stands on a radiator as Simon & Schuster reject his £7.6 million lawsuit

     

    On Saturday, Milo Yiannopoulos shared a picture of himself standing on top of a radiator on Facebook. Whether he simply wanted to warm his shoes or actually believed such a move would create awareness about his recently released rant, a book named Dangerous, he again made himself appear as nothing but an idiot.

     

    Yiannopoulos – a self-confessed “coalburner” due to his liking for “black guys for my love life, straight white males as employees, and girls as drinking buddies” – had received news Friday that his former publisher, Simon & Schuster, were “firing back at his £7.6 million ($10 million, €8.5 million or درهم36.7 million) lawsuit” for dropping publication of his work and urging a court to “throw out his meritless publicity stunt.”

     

    In documents submitted to a court in New York, Simon & Schuster argued: “A publisher shall not be obligated to accept or publish the Work if it is in sole good faith judgment the Work is not acceptable to it.” They added:

     

    “Yiannopoulos accepted [an advance] payment without protest, thereby sealing the accord and satisfaction and barring this lawsuit as a matter of centuries-old law… That should have been the end of this contractual matter. Instead, Yiannopoulos waited approximately five months to file this lawsuit, in a naked attempt to drum up publicity for the publication of his book, released days earlier, amidst baseless public statements that Defendant attempted to censor and silence him.”

     

    In response, Yiannopoulos – whose suggestion that abuse of 13 year olds is not paedophilia caused outrage earlier this year – told The Hollywood Reporter:

     

    “[Here in Simon & Schuster is] a client doomed to failure… I’ve hired Jeffrey Weingart and Stephen Meister. Stephen has represented Daddy himself – that’s my pet name for the president, in case you didn’t know – and we all know daddy picks winners.”

     

    As with Trump and his ever-revolving set of staff, we’ll see about that but separately Saturday, this self-obsessed bore shared news by email of a “quick meet and great” in Florida. Yiannopoulos announced: “I will be in a makeshift swimming pool in the back of a pick up truck on a beach chair with my squad.” Charming.

     

  • A Peaceful Reduction

    A Peaceful Reduction

    Designer Reed Krakoff slashes the price of his Hamptons mansion; Jackie Kennedy Onassis spent her childhood summers there

     

    A Hamptons mansion named Lasata – meaning: “Place of Peace” in Native American – where Jacqueline Bouvier (later Kennedy and later Kennedy Onassis) spent her childhood summers has recently been reduced in price from £41.5 million to £36.1 million.

     

    A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.
    121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America
    A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.
    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994)
    A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.
    Reed and Delphine Krakoff – Mr Krakoff was at one time tipped as “the next Tom Ford” but reportedly “walked away” from his eponymous brand after supposed differences of vision for it with investors

     

    Alternatively and more simply known as 121 Further Lane, the property concerned is situated in East Hampton and currently owned by the fashion designer Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine. It extends to 8,500 square foot and includes 10 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms and stands on a plot of 11.54 acres.

     

    Two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and three blocks from the Maidstone Club, Lasata was built in 1917 to the designs of Arthur Jackson and bought by Jackie Bouvier’s paternal grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (AKA ‘The Major’), in 1935. The future President’s wife is said to have learnt to ride there and aged ten, wrote a poem about her time at the estate:

     

    When I go down to the sandy shore

    I can think of nothing I want more

    Than to live by the booming blue sea

    As the seagulls flutter around about me

    I can run about when the tide is out

    With the wind and the sea all about

    And the seagulls are swirling and diving for fish

    Oh-to live by the sea is my only wish

     

    The Arts and Crafts style property was subsequently sold and most recently bought by Mr and Mrs Krakoff for £15.3 million in 2007. The pair – whose other homes have variously included residences in Paris, New York’s Upper East Side and the former New Canaan, Connecticut residence of the eccentric recluse Huguette Clark – carried out extensive renovations and are said to be selling in order to move to a more contemporary beachfront Hamptons property.

     

    Available as a whole or in two lots, Lasata is offered by Knight Frank.

     

    121 Further Lane – The Numbers

     

    April 2007 – Sold for £15.3 million ($20 million, €17.2 million or درهم73.5 million).

     

    September 2016 – Listed for £41.47 million ($53.99 million, €46.44 million or درهم198.32 million).

     

    May 2017 – Relisted for £39.9 million ($51.99 million, €44.72 million or درهم190.97 million).

     

    June 2017 – Reduced to £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million).

     

    A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine. A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine. A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.A Peaceful Reduction – 121 Further Lane, East Hampton, New York, NY 11937, United States of America – For sale through Knight Frank for a reduced price of £36.1 million ($47 million, €40.4 million or درهم172.6 million) – Childhood summer home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and currently owned by Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine.

  • Removing Ralph

    Removing Ralph

    Ralph Lauren are latest to board-up shop in Fulham Road, London

     

    In April, Ralph Lauren shut their flagship Polo store in Fifth Avenue and now they’ve closed one of their two stores on London’s Fulham Road too.

     

    Whilst the reasoning for closing the Chelsea outlet of Ralph Lauren Kids is unknown, the firm has joined many other retailers on the stretch opposite Pelham Crescent to board-up shop.

     

    Matthew Steeples, editor-in-chief of The Steeple Times, observes:

     

    “With an ever-declining number of residents in the Royal Borough, ever increasing commercial rents at the behest of greedy landlords and the prospect of the uncertainty of Brexit, sadly, this won’t be the last closure in the locality.”

     

  • A Cottage in the Clouds

    A Cottage in the Clouds

    New York penthouse complete with a ‘Nantucket style cottage’ on the roof goes on sale

     

    A New York penthouse with a difference has gone on sale for £2.7 million ($3.5 million, €3.1 million or درهم12.9 million).

     

    Situated in Minthorne House at 72 East 1st Street in the East Village, a fourth to sixth floor 3,000 square foot walk-up comes with not only a duplex with a ‘great room’ with 18-foot ceiling heights but also a ‘Nantucket style roof cottage’ with weathered shingles, a cupola and a wrap-around terrace.

     

    Offered by realtors Compass, the 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom penthouse is one of just three residential units in a building constructed in 1841. It truly is a one-of-a-kind and is described as having “low monthlies” also.

     

    A Cottage in the Clouds – Penthouse at Minthorne House, 72 East 1st Street, East Village, New York, NY 10003, United States of America – For sale for £2.7 million ($3.5 million, €3.1 million or درهم12.9 million) through CompassA Cottage in the Clouds – Penthouse at Minthorne House, 72 East 1st Street, East Village, New York, NY 10003, United States of America – For sale for £2.7 million ($3.5 million, €3.1 million or درهم12.9 million) through CompassA Cottage in the Clouds – Penthouse at Minthorne House, 72 East 1st Street, East Village, New York, NY 10003, United States of America – For sale for £2.7 million ($3.5 million, €3.1 million or درهم12.9 million) through CompassA Cottage in the Clouds – Penthouse at Minthorne House, 72 East 1st Street, East Village, New York, NY 10003, United States of America – For sale for £2.7 million ($3.5 million, €3.1 million or درهم12.9 million) through Compass A Cottage in the Clouds – Penthouse at Minthorne House, 72 East 1st Street, East Village, New York, NY 10003, United States of America – For sale for £2.7 million ($3.5 million, €3.1 million or درهم12.9 million) through Compass

  • Expensive Shit

    Expensive Shit

    ‘SHIT’ to be sold at Christie’s in South Kensington; it comes at quite a price

     

    A painting which simply depicts the word ‘SHIT’ is to be sold at Christie’s in South Kensington, London this month.

     

    Offered with an estimate of £2,000 to £4,000 ($2,590 to $5,180, €2,260 to €4,520 or درهم9,470 to درهم18,940) in spite of having been painted with household gloss, the work by Kent born, New York based artist and filmmaker Sarah Morris (born 1967) is 153 centimetres by 244 centimetres and simply reads: ‘SHIT’ in capital letters.

     

    Other works by Morris are displayed at Gloucester Road tube station, the V&A and the Tate Modern in London, the Hamburger Bahnholf in Berlin, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

     

    Christie’s will auction the work, which is dated 1996 on the reverse, on 19th July. It was acquired by the current owner from Jay Jopling in London.

     

    Expensive Shit – Painting by Sarah Morris to be auctioned – ‘SHIT’ to be sold at Christie’s in South Kensington, London on 19th July 2017; it comes at quite a price and is by artist Sarah Morris. Estimate of £2,000 to £4,000 ($2,590 to $5,180, €2,260 to €4,520 or درهم9,470 to درهم18,940)
    Sarah Morris with another of her works; she is described as having a style that uses bright color fields and graphic line work, often referencing elements of architecture and taking titles from bureaucratic institutions.