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A shirt worn by Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe fetches $877,500 at auction
Anything associated with the renowned Native American leader of the Nez Perce tribe, Hin-Mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, is considered to be highly desirable and sought-after by the worldwide collectors. Now, one of the highly important Native American artifacts, a poncho-style war shirt made of two soft skins featuring bead work with bright colors and bold geometric designs, which once belonged to Chief Joseph, fetched $877,500 at the annual Coeur d’Alene Art Auction held in Reno, a price which just topped its pre-sale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million. This pretty special shirt associated with Chief Joseph, who became renowned as peacemaker and humanitarian for his principled resistance to the removal of his Wallowa band and to move to a reservation in Idaho, was also earlier sold for $482,500 in Sotheby’s American Indian Art sale on May 16.
No CommentsBartender’s dream of mixing the world’s most expensive cocktail shattered
At London’s highly exclusive Playboy Club under the watch of Guinness World Records judges, an expensive piece of history and cocktail-maestro Salvatore Calabrese’s dream of mixing the world’s most expensive cocktail gets shattered after its key ingredient, a historic cognac worth of $77,480 gets accidentally smashed on floor. One of the world’s leading bartender, Salvatore Calabrese’s record-breaking attempt to mix the ‘Old and Wise’ cocktail, which was to be priced at $7,830 a glass, was dashed after an affluent customer who already ordered two glasses of the vintage 1788 Clos de Griffier Vieux generously asked to look at this historic bottle.
No CommentsFinancier Leon Black Owns The $120 Million World’s Most Expensive Painting ‘The Scream’ – Revealed
There is no business like art business. Whether the economy is slowing down or is in recession or the art valuations drop, avid art collectors really don’t mind spending multi-million dollars to get their hands on the world’s most sought-after artworks. For centuries, wealthy patrons and collectors have been the life-blood of the art world. And, in the recent times, the billionaire art collectors like Steven A. Cohen, Roman Abramovich, Bill Gates, Francois Pinault, Steve Wynn, Leon Black, Paul Allen, Joseph Lau, to name a few has transformed the international art market with their lavish art spending. Recently, a highly affluent New York financier Leon Black has been named as the mysterious $120 million buyer of the renowned Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch’s 1895 ‘The Scream’, a pastel of a terrified figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous red sky. This highly coveted masterpiece, the fourth version of the composition, was actually sold on May 2 as part of the Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art auction.
No CommentsBillionaire Christopher Cox $30 million Ferrari 250 GTO car crash
Produced by the automotive marvel Ferrari from 1962 to 1964, the Ferrari 250 GTO ‘Gran Turismo Omologata’ was the car that summed up Ferrari‘s philosophy best; the highest level of performance, power and styling. And, with only a relatively small production of 39-cars, this artistically crafted machinery has become one of the icons of Ferrari production history, with a revered position in collector’s circles. With the recent sale of apple green 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO built for Britain’s racing driver Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss for $35 million to become world’s most expensive Ferrari, besides the sale of 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO for $32 million, it becomes apparent that affluent collectors happily splash out multi-million dollars to own one as investment, and at times, to keep it under lock in climate-controlled garages. Now, to one’s surprise, one such affluent collector, the multi-millionaire American investor Christopher Cox has recently crashed his Ferrari 250 GTO out on track as part of the legendary model’s 50th anniversary tour in central France.
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