Artist Shit facts
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Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with feces, called it 'Artist's shit' and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin. In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new world record of €275,000, including auction fees.
Artist Piero Manzoni created Artists' Shit, 90 tin cans containing 30 grams of feces, as a mockery to the art world, then sold them for $37 dollars each. They're now worth upwards of $100000 each.
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Artist Lee Hadwin, who creates six-figure, intricate artwork while sleepwalking, but can't draw for shit while awake
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An Italian artist; Piero Manzoni created 90 cans of his "shit" and sold for the price of gold
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Artist Piero Manzoni's father told him, "Your work is shit." As a response, he created 90 cans of his own shit. In 2008, one of them sold for £97,250.
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Blues legend Howlin' Wolf had an album he called "dog shit". On the cover: "This is Howlin' Wolf's new album. He doesn't like it." It didn't sell well so the producer said "I used negativity in the title, and it was a big lesson: You can't say on the cover that the artist didn't like the album."
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Italian artist Piero Manzoni canned his shit and sold it for it's weight in gold.
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In 1961, the artist Piero Manzoni once sold 30g tins of "Artist's Shit" for their weight in gold. He is also known for selling balloons filled with his own breath.
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An artist shit in a can. One of these "pieces" recently sold for 124,000 euros.
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A famous painting from a 17th century French artist is thought by many to be a hoax from the 1920's. Among other things, the word "merde" (French for "shit") can be made out in the collar of one of the painting's subjects.
