{"id":12851,"date":"2025-11-19T15:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12851"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:05:40","slug":"solid-gold-toilet-snapped-up-for-us12-1-million-at-new-york-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12851","title":{"rendered":"Solid gold toilet snapped up for US$12.1 million at New York auction"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold on Tuesday for US$236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirising the ultrarich also fetched US$12.1 million.<\/p>\n

The toilet, by Maurizio Cattelan – the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall – went up for auction on Tuesday evening at Sotheby\u2019s in New York. The starting bid for the 101kg, 18-karat gold work was about US$10 million.<\/p>\n

Cattelan has said the piece, titled America<\/em>, satirises superwealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever you eat, a US$200 lunch or a US$2 hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise,\u201d he once said. Sotheby\u2019s, for its part, calls the commode an \u201cincisive commentary on the collision of artistic production and commodity value\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Gustav Klimt\u2019s \u2018Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer\u2019. Photo: Sotheby\u2019s via AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Klimt\u2019s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer<\/em> sold earlier in the night after a 20-minute bidding war, also becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold by Sotheby\u2019s worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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