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$104 million

Posted in Blog on Feb 08, 2010

metromagObviously, it’d be cool to have $104 million lying around to share with others or to buy organic blueberries even when they’re not on sale. Someone recently decided he or she was tired of lugging around so much cash and unloaded it on a Giacometti sculpture ($104.3 million to be precise.) It set a record for the highest price ever paid for a piece of art at auction and prompted me to ponder a few things over at Mom Culture’s Metro magazine blog (read the piece here.)