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By Colin Gleadell 327PM GMT 09 Mar 2010

The mark-up for these skateboards done by Damien Hirst last Nov is mind-boggling

James Murdoch, the son of media noble Rupert Murdoch and successor strong to his empire, is to mount for choosing to Sotheby"s house of directors, to that he will positively move girl and an form of contacts and media savvy. His shortcoming for News Corporation"s growth in Middle East and the Middle East fits orderly with Sotheby"s plans in those regions. His seductiveness in new media might additionally assistance Sotheby"s that lost a small happening on the initial journey in to offered art online to redeem belligerent lost to Christie"s, that has been creation essential advance in that direction. The usually subject symbol is over Murdoch"s seductiveness in art. Apart from a small cartoons he drew for Harvard Lampoon repository when he was still at college, small is well well known about this aspect of his life. However, you don"t have to know about art to sell it. To counterfeit Alfred Taubman, a former authority of Sotheby"s, offered art and antiques isn"t majority opposite from offered base drink and football.

Skateboards done by Damien Hirst last Nov for Supreme, the New York hip-hop movement store, have been offered at augmenting prices. In a offered video, Hirst pronounced that he didn"t wish the play to be treated with colour similar to notable relic objects. It seems nobody listened to him. Within a couple of hours of their release, the boards, a small in sets of 3 or five, sole out. Priced at $88 a board, a set of three, flashy in Hirst"s informed spin-painting style, retailed for $264. Soon afterwards, the sets began looming on eBay at $1,400 to $1,800. And right away they have started to crop up at excellent art auctions unused, of course. Last Saturday. at Phillips de Pury in New York, a set of five mark painting-style boards, estimated at $2,000 to $3,000, sole for $7,500. A set of 3 spin-painted boards, estimated at $1,500 to $2,500, sole for $9,750. The mark-up is mind-boggling. The subsequent Hirst sets crop up at Bonhams on Mar 17, with estimates of �1,000-�2,000.

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They were well well known as "the dual Roberts", Colquhoun and MacBryde, and rated with Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud as between the majority earnest immature artists of their day. In 1959, Ken Russell done a short movie about them. Within 7 years, the pair, deserted by the critics and vital in alcoholic poverty, had died. Coinciding with the announcement of The Last Bohemians, the initial autobiography of the men, by Roger Bristow, the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh has mounted an muster in that twenty-six works, together with prints from �950, are for sale.