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GRAPEVINE, Page 15That Costly Object Of Desire
By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
The art market is in a tailspin, but no one would know it
from the attention lavished on one item auctioned in Manhattan
last week. Objet-Dard, a 1962 Marcel Duchamp bronze casting
owned by the estate of the late graffiti artist Keith Haring,
was listed in the Christie's catalog at a cautiously low
estimate of $8,000 to $10,000. (The title of the frankly phallic
piece is a pun on objet d'art, substituting the French word for
dart.) In a matter of seconds, bids for the 8-in. work soared
into six figures in a battle between two unseen telephone
bidders. The winning offer: $135,000 from a Belgian art dealer.