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04/19/2007


'X-Men' Artwork Featuring Northstar's Marriage Proposal to His Boyfriend is Up for Sale

Marryme

Gay X-Men fans should be salivating over this. The splash page to X-Men #50, in which Northstar proposes to his boyfriend Kyle Jinadu, is up for auction on eBay.

Writes the Hollywood Reporter: "The auction is being conducted by the representative for artist Mike Perkins and includes his five preliminary sketches as well as the final drawing."


$5,000 for a Kiss from John Stamos: VIDEO

Stamos

A moment from this weekend's GLAAD awards in which kisses from Naya Rivera, Cory Monteith, and John Stamos were auctioned. Stamos and his winner were the only same-sex kiss, won for a bid of $5,000. Perhaps they could have received a couple thousand more if there was tongue involved.

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Last Night, This $4.3 Million Andreas Gursky Photograph Became the Most Expensive Ever Sold at Auction

Rhein_II

"Rhein II", a photograph of the Rhine River by Andreas Gursky, was sold for $4.3 million at Christie's last night, breaking Cindy Sherman's previous record of $3.89 million, set in May.

A Roy Lichtenstein record was broken too, with a single work going for $43.2 million: "As actor Leonardo DiCaprio looked on in blue jeans and blue baseball cap, the pop artist's 'I Can See the Whole Room!... And There's Nobody in It!' helped London-based Christie's reach a total of $247.6 million."

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Cindy Sherman Breaks Records

Sherman

I posted briefly last week about the Christie's auction, but missed this detail.

Pop Photo writes

While not the priciest item up for auction that day, Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #96" from 1981 passed all records for photography, and was sold for $3.89 million. According to ArtInfo.com, the buyer was New York dealer Philippe Segalot, and the underbidder was Per Skarstedt, also a New York dealer. Christie's confirmed that this was a record for a photograph at auction, previously held by Andreas Gursky's "99 Cent II Diptychon," which fetched $3.35 million in 2006.


Auction: Stephen Moyer's 'True Blood Sock of Destiny'

Bill

Stephen Moyer's True Blood "Sock of Destiny" which Vampire Bill wears around his man parts during nude scenes is up for auction. Bidding is at $605.00 as of this posting.


Hugh Jackman: Your Shirtless Fitness Whore, for the Right Price

JackmanE!'s Marc Malkin reports that Hugh Jackman is auctioning off a private fitness training session.

"If someone comes in and says, ‘I want to try it exactly how you train. I want to just go as hard as we can,' we'll go there. But I don't want people to feel intimidated if they want to come experience it but not keel over. Put it this way, if you want to throw up, there's every opportunity. But if you want to come and have a light sweat, want to have a bit of fun, maybe an autograph or two, you can do that as well. 

He adds: 

"Sure [I'll work out shirtless]! No problem. You know me, I'm a whore. I think I was shirtless for the whole time in my first movie in Australia and I think I only made about $4,000."

The auction benefits New York City's Summit School. Bidding is already up to $14,500.





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