Friday, May 1, 2009

Every artist is more popular when they're dead...

...even Hitler! On April 23, $143,000 of Hitler's art was sold at an auction in Shropshire, Britain. Mullock's, a British auction house, told Reuters that, "people do not want to acquire these for their artistic merit; they just want to have something that belonged to someone famous from history," even though historical document specialist, Richard Westwood-Brookes told said the you could never be sure of the true artist.

Arts, included an oil painting of an Alpine landscape (which sold for about $19,700) and a possible self-portrait (which sold for about $14,600) all signed "A. Hitler" or "A.H."

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