New York Post report - Lucky for this art collector, the “you break it, you buy it” policy didn’t apply. A woman admiring a $42,000 “Balloon Dog” sculpture by world-renowned artist Jeff Koons accidentally knocked over the pricey piece, which shattered on the floor of a Miami gallery Thursday night.
The two-decade-old work of art met its unfortunate end during the first day of Art Wynwood, a contemporary art fair in the city, the Miami Herald reported.
“When this thing fell to the ground, it was like how a car accident draws a huge crowd on the highway,” Stephen Gamson, a Wynwood-based artist and art collector, told the Herald.
Gamson said gawkers at Bel-Air Fine Art’s booth were left wondering if the smashed porcelain could have been part of a performance art piece. It probably was. Go figure...
Maybe they are escalating beyond tomato soup and superglue.
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