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Lehman Brothers Auction is Awesome Home Shopping


The Wall Street Journal turns up its nose at the forthcoming auction of the art collection of Lehman Brothers, which is going up for sale on Sunday. "Many of the works are by unknowns, meant primarily to decorate wall space," says the WSJ. Sure, it's not exactly a world-class collection by any stretch-but also it's not at all a bad group of artists, or "unknowns." And most of the works seem to be prints, so of course this is by no means a big bucks auction. But a Julie Mehretu print for five grand? A recent Ed Ruscha for a grand? A 1975 Calder print for $1200??? This is like fun bargain basement shopping-with actual investment potential. You snobs!