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  • Someone Just Bought This Peculiar Statue Of Hitler For R255 Million

    09 May 2016 by Sloane Hunter in Art, History, Money, World
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    There are people in the world that have all the time for anything Hitler-related. They are intrigued with his ability to command a country, manipulating citizens to kill around 20 million people, while the only person Hitler ever killed was himself.

    So when a statue of the evil dictator went up for auction during the “highly anticipated art auction season”, the piece called “Him” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan sold for $17.2 million (R255 Million).

    Should you approach “Him” from behind, you might suppose the figure to be “a small child kneeling in prayer. But from the front, the viewer comes face-to-face with the unmistakeable likeness of Hitler.”

    In this Friday, April 29, 2016 photo, "Him" Maurizio Cattelan is on display during the press preview of "Bound to Fail" at Christie's auction house in New York. Christieís starts off the auction week on Sunday, May 8, with a themed sale titled ìBound to Fail,î that features the controversial sculpture of a praying Hitler by Cattelan estimated between $10 million and $15 million. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    This combination of undated photos provided by Christie's shows "Him," a controversial sculpture of Adolf Hitler by Maurizio Cattelan. Viewed from the rear, it appears as a child-like figure kneeling in prayer. But from the front, viewers come face-to-face with a likeness of the Nazi leader. The work is among the highlights of a special sale at Christie's auction house in New York scheduled for May 8, 2016. (Christie's/Marian Goodman Gallery/copyright Maurizio Cattelan via AP)

    A statue by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday Dec. 28, 2012. The work, “HIM” has been drawing visitors since it was installed last month and even some anger. One Jewish group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, this week condemned the work’s placement in the former ghetto as “a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims.”. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

    The phrase ‘money well spent’ doesn’t really come to mind here.

    [source: jezebel]

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