Sotheby’s Coughs Up Lots of Cash for Major Tobacco Company’s Art
British American Tobacco (BTI), the second largest cigarette maker in the world, has been extending their spindly claws of death towards the art world, scraping up $18.5 million for some paintings at Sotheby’s auction the other day. Not as scary as smokey poison peddlers sponsoring elementary schools in China, but still creepy.
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by Marina Galperina on March 10, 2010 at 1:20 pm
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Ironic that the most money dropped by the cigarette company was on a Kippenbergeer from his egg series.. he would have had a laugh himself. I guess throughout history dirty money has been pumped into the art world and this is no different.