Name: $600 Million Art Collection Up For Sale After Divorce
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '$600 Million Art Collection Up For Sale After Divorce' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '$600 Million Art Collection Up For Sale After Divorce' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-15. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Dude, there's this couple that's getting divorced
and they have $600 million worth of art.
It is the biggest single art collection
that's ever going up for auction.
And there's one painting that they have on the wall
that is a 2007 painting by some person I've never heard of.
I obviously don't know much about modern art in particular.
And it's worth, I think, $40 to $60 million, that's it.
- That is, yeah, $40 to $60 million, it's a fucking splatter.
- You know what that looks like, Kyle?
That looks like a good pussies background.
- That does, yes.
- Look at this, it says "Sci Twombie's untitled work
from 2007 has an estimate of $40 to $60 million
courtesy of Sotheby's."
What in the fuck are you talking about?
Could you imagine, $40 to $60 million is an insane house
on a massive piece of land.
- Are they able to say what about that is good?
- Ferraris.
- This is like the original NFTs, guys, come on.
- But this is so crazy, like, for $40 to $60 million,
you should have a fucking insane house, a private jet,
a Ferrari, a Mercedes, a crazy game room,
- Dude, I would have just a shit--
- Full bar, movie theater.
- That's good toilets.
- I would have just a shitty house and that painting.
Nothing else would be nice, and I'd just have that.
- I mean, fucking imagine, just imagine that that's worth $60 million.
- Please don't look at any of the other images.
I just want to concentrate on the other one, Jimmy.
I don't know what that is.
That's Pinocchio.
The other one is Pinocchio's head.
They found Pinocchio's skeleton.
Scroll down.
- Is that true?
- Look at that.
That's worth a billion dollars.
That's the actual Pinocchio.
- That's a fossil of Pinocchio.
- What is that?
- It's a lion.
- Fuck.
It's a freak.
- There's lying about Marilyn Monroe and that.
- The whole thing is so insane.
That painting is so insanely bad.
- Does anyone try to explain why it's good?
Does anybody try to say--
- See, I can make that.
See, I cannot do the Mona Lisa.
- I know why it's good, 'cause it's a huge canvas.
It's all about how big the canvas is.
- That doesn't make any sense.
There's no sense to this.
There's zero sense to that being worth $40 to $60 million.
I don't give a fuck who made it.
I don't give a fuck where he's from,
where he went to school, who he mentored under.
Fuck you, eat shit.
That's not $40 million.
- I could see it being worth $35 million,
but I agree with you.
- I think it's worth $3,500.
It's worth $3,500.
- Steve Martin would be able to tell you
if it's good or not.
- Is he an art thing?
- That's his big thing.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- But it doesn't matter.
This is only worth what people are willing to pay for it.
And I guess some people are willing to pay for it,
'cause this gentleman, Ty Twombie,
is apparently a very famous artist,
which I get, okay, that's fine.
But there's no way I can do that.
Like the whole art thing is such a bizarre status thing.
I was at an agent's house once in Aspen.
It's an amazing house.
And I was over at this guy's house.
I was like, wow, this house is crazy.
Like how much the agents make?
All this thing is like this guy's robbing people.
And I'm in his house and I see this thing that's framed.
And it's like this big and it's like tissue paper
and like color and I go,
I go, is this like something his kid made?
And he goes, no, that's a blah, blah, blah.
Like that's $30,000.
I remember going, what the fuck are you talking about?
- Oh, is that it?
- Dude, you know, a buddy of mine-
- I'm just the same artist that did the other thing though.
- A buddy of mine is-
- Similar.
- A lot of these guys-
- It's exactly like what a kid does.
- My 11 year old can fuck that up.
She can do so much better than that.
- Dude, my friend's an artist who started out,
you know, a lot of them started as graffiti people.
Like in New York, like Basquiat was one of those
like graffiti people that became an artist.
- Yes.
- So my buddies, I didn't realize how much
his stuff went for, like he offered me a painting
and I was like, I just wanted one.
And I was like, I think it was worth like 30 grand
when I looked up.
I couldn't believe it.
- 30 grand, really?
- Yeah, I don't get the pricing on art.
- He's a good artist.
I mean, he's a really good artist,
but I was shocked at like what the art world-
- Look at this one, Jamie, that I just sent you.
And tell me how much you think this one's worth.
This is, tell me.
- Let's play, how much is it worth?
Let's see how close to me.
Let's see if Kurt and I can see who's better at guessing.
- Just take a wild guess.
- Okay, I'm gonna, that's very good under boob
drawing there and some good hip action.
- I don't say it's worth a lot.
That looks like an art school sketch pad
from an art institute where I went to school.
- 10 million dollars.
- How much do you think it's worth, Kurt?
- I don't, that looks like somebody's sketch to me.
From, I don't think a lot, I think like 30 dollars.
- 30 dollars?
- 10 million.
- 10 million.
My 11 year old made that.
- Oh, I'll give her 30 dollars.
- I would pay 10 million dollars for that.
- This is how crazy it is.
- You know how crazy this world is?
- That's very good.
- She's very talented.
And that's an 11 year old girl
who drew that off the top of her head.
- But that's not splotches on a thing.
That's why I knew it wasn't gonna be worth a lot of money.
- But it's still, even like that kind of sketch
with the right artist is probably worth
a preposterous amount of money.
- Wait, how old is she?
- She's 11.
She might have been 10 when she made that.
She might have been 10 when she made that.
She's really talented.
- But imagine, imagine that you like that splatter.
Show that other image before,
which is probably worth like 50 million bucks.
- I was just looking at some of his other words.
- How much is that worth?
Sotheby's.
How much is that worth?
- Well, I know it's a lot.
- I would pay.
- This fucking guy, is that Ty Twombly?
He's dead.
- I was trying to find his other stuff.
- Oh, he's dead, that's why.
- Yeah.
- Ty's dead.
- You know in that scribble?
- Oh, it's Cy, C-Y.
- Cy Twombly.
- Yeah, look what he wrote.
Look at it, imagine making a living doing that.
Like you go, "My husband's an amazing artist."
And you go, "Oh, wow, that's cool."
- I bet you his name has a lot,
'cause first of all, that's a very good name, Cy Twombly.
That just seems like a catchy art name.
- This has been explained to me by friends that are artists.
This is what happens.
When you bring your stuff to a gallery,
and then a big time collector buys it,
someone who comes in and goes, "I want this, is amazing."
And this is this incredible new artist.
His name is Cy Twombly, he's incredible.
And then this one person who's in the know
decides that it's good,
and then other people start buying your stuff too.
And then it becomes more valuable
because you only have so many pieces.
And if they're big pieces, like big huge pieces,
even though it looks like dog shit,
it's worth even more.
It's like, that's why that piece
is worth 40 to 60 million dollars.
- It spawned a lot of people in LA to be,
or probably other places too,
where I know a couple of artists,
but they have no training, they just scribble like that.
But they're not gonna be a--
- You never know.
- Well, I guess.
- Imagine. - What's their name?
Do they have a cool name like Cy Twombly?
- I don't wanna say.
- 'Cause that's like-- - No.
- No, they don't. - You go, "What the fuck is that?"
Like, it's a Cy Twombly.
Oh, it must be like a big--
I immediately would go over it.
- If it's a Kurt Metzger, people are gonna go, "Fuck."
- It's not, yeah, it doesn't have the same--
- Right.
- Cy Twombly is an amazing scribble name.
- It's not a bad scribble name.
- Yeah.
- But it's like, that stuff's not good.
Like, objectively.
- It's gotta be the last thing you buy with all your money.
I mean, you would think.
Once you have your stuff,
then you go, "I have so much money left."
- There's people that are like these hedge fund fucks
that are worth just billions and billions of dollars
of nonsense money.
They're moving money around,
and they're making money moving money.
- And don't they have like a place,
some airport where it's all--
- Where they stack it?
- Yeah, it was in that movie--
- Gold bars.
- You know, what's the time travel movie that--
- Born in America?
- It was in "Tenet."
They rob that vault where they keep really expensive
kind of paintings like "Saudi Princes Keep."
So nobody sees them, they're just in this vault,
I guess at some airport.
But in "Tenet," I think that was a real place they were,
where rich people keep their art.
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