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Popeye Salutes Fleet Week New York
Fleet Week New York is the City's time-honored celebration of the sea services. After a one-year absence, Fleet Week has returned to New York. From now through May 27, nearly 1,500 service members from the U.S. Navy, Marines and Coast Guard will arrive in New…
READ MORENow Who’s the Heavyweight, Bluto?
[caption id="attachment_13202" align="aligncenter" width="206"] Photo: Sotheby's[/caption] Today, let’s call him Popeye the $28.2 Million Man. That was the sale price against the estimate of about $25 million for Jeff Koons’s stainless steel sculpture, “Popeye.” Beautifully finished in colorful, jewel-like glazes, the statue was part of…
READ MOREJeff Koons’ Highly Anticipated Popeye Auction at Sotheby’s
This stainless steel “Popeye” statue is expected to draw around $25 million when Sotheby’s auctions it on May 14. It is a six-and-a-half-foot-tall stainless-steel sculpture of Popeye made between 2009 and 2011 by the incomparable artist Jeff Koons. [caption id="attachment_13202" align="aligncenter" width="206"] Photo: Sotheby's[/caption] “It’s…
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