{"id":123888,"date":"2025-11-08T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123888\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:14:13","slug":"steve-cohen-revealed-as-consignor-of-cattelans-golden-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123888\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cohen Revealed as Consignor of Cattelan’s Golden Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Headlines<\/p>\n

\n\tGOLDEN THRONE. For nearly a decade, the art world has speculated about the fate of Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s notorious golden toilet, America, a fully functional sculpture made of 100 kilograms of 18-karat gold. One of the mystery buyers (the work comes in an edition of three, plus two artist\u2019s proofs) has now been revealed as billionaire financier and collector\u00a0Steven Cohen, owner of the New York Mets and founder of Point72 Asset Management, the New York Times<\/a> reports. Cohen reportedly purchased his edition from Marian Goodman Gallery in 2017. On November 18, Sotheby\u2019s will auction it with an opening bid of about $10 million. Cattelan\u2019s\u00a0America\u00a0already has a notorious backstory (via another one of the editioned sculptures):\u00a0after showing at the Guggenheim Museum it was offered to\u00a0the first\u00a0Trump White House, which had originally\u00a0requested borrowing a\u00a0van Gogh painting. That version, when it was displayed at England\u2019s Blenheim Palace in 2019, was stolen and never recovered. Cattelan\u2019s satirical works often mock wealth and power, much like his previous sensation, the duct-taped banana Comedian, which sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby\u2019s last fall. Cohen, whose holdings includes blue-chip works by the likes of\u00a0Jasper Johns\u00a0and Damien Hirst, is now selling America amid growing interest from crypto collectors and art investors eager for another headline-making sale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RECORD SALE. Sotheby\u2019s Paris took in a combined \u20ac18.6 million ($21.5 million) from the collection of the late real estate mogul Manny Davidson across two in-person sales this week. That result, from an evening sale on Wednesday and a day sale on Thursday, marked the highest total for a single-owner sale in France this year, and with the collection\u2019s third online sale closing on Friday, that figure will almost certainly climb higher. The top lot was\u00a0Michael Sweerts\u2019s\u00a0A young man wearing a turban holding an upturned roemer: the fingernail test (1648\u201352), which sold on Wednesday for \u20ac1.6 million ($1.8 million) against its \u20ac800,000\u2013\u20ac1,200,000 ($925,000\u2013$1.3 million) estimate. That\u2019s a decent result, but it\u2019s worth noting that a rediscovered Sweerts sold for over $16 million at Christie\u2019s in 2023. \u201cThe depth and quality of Manny Davidson\u2019s collection were truly exceptional, every work told a story of passion, refinement, and curiosity,\u201d Louis-Xavier Joseph, head of the furniture department at Sotheby\u2019s Paris, told ARTnews<\/a>\u00a0after Wednesday\u2019s sale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Digest<\/p>\n

Gladstone<\/a> Gallery now represents the estate of Robert Colescott. [ARTnews<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Steve<\/p>\n

\n\tA necklace salvaged from the Titanic goes on view for the first time in a century in Orlando\u2019s \u201cTitanic: The Artifact Exhibition.\u201d [Artnet News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tHundreds of people have signed a petition against the planned closure and relocation of Walsall Leather Museum in the UK. [Museums Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tA new collagen fingerprinting tool might help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. [Phys Org<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tHyperallergic\u00a0tours the Studio Museumin Harlem\u2019s new home. [Hyperallergic<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Kicker<\/p>\n

Although not yet officially announced, the\u00a0Art Newspaper<\/a> has revealed that the Philadelphia Museum of Art is preparing a major Vincent van Gogh exhibition titled \u201cVan Gogh\u2019s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow,\u201d slated to run from June 6 to October 11, 2026. A museum spokesperson said the show \u201cwill bring together two Sunflowers paintings, exploring how the artist used colour and brushwork to achieve different expressive effects.\u201d The museum\u2019s own Sunflowers (1889), distinguished by its turquoise background, will be joined by at least one major loan, the celebrated Arles version with a yellow background (painted in 1888) from London\u2019s National Gallery. Since its acquisition in 1924, the London Sunflowers has traveled abroad only four times, making its forthcoming journey to Philadelphia a rare and significant event. The collaboration follows a recent exchange between the two institutions. Philadelphia\u2019s Sunflowers was lent to the National Gallery\u2019s acclaimed 2024 van Gogh exhibition \u201cPoets & Lovers,\u201d\u00a0marking the first time the PMA had loaned the work since acquiring it in 1963.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Headlines GOLDEN THRONE. For nearly a decade, the art world has speculated about the fate of Maurizio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,52963,80798,111,139,69,7928],"class_list":{"0":"post-123888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gladstone","15":"tag-maruzio-cattelan","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-sothebys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}