On Friday, the Phillips de Pury & Company auction house held their Sex Auction, selling off art treasures of all shapes and sizes (including a bunch of gay stuff). The amazing part? How much this homo smut costs!
We're used to spending $50 a film or $24.99 a month for a subscription to one of the finer websites. All of these paintings, sketches, and photographs sold for at least $1,000—and some for nearly $100K. Damn, if we thought we could make that much off of candid snaps of blow jobs, we;d have started documenting our hookups long ago. Here's a look at most of the gay fare from the 221 lot auction, held in London, as well as the amount they sold for (converted from pounds). Fair warning: it's going to make you feel horny and poor.
Stiefelknecht II by Wolfgang Tillmans. Sold for $4,500.
Erotic Etching from The Erotic Arts by David Hockney. Sold for $3,000.
Doug Mayer, NYC by Bruce Weber. Sold for $4,300.
Whip Blur by Robert Mapplethorpe. Sold for $1,300.
Untitled (Self Portrait) by Robert Mapplethorpe. Sold for $6,600.
Untitled (Cowboy) by Tom of Finland. Sold for $15,000.
Untitled (Swordfight) by Tom of Finland. Estimated between $12,000 - $18,000.
Untitled (Chained Neck) by Tom of Finland. Sold for $15,000
Untitled # 113 (Bougainvillea) by Jeff Burton. Sold for $7,100.
Self Portrait by Gilbert and George. Sold for $1,000.
Men Have Feelings Too by Bob Carlos Clarke. Sold for $5,600.
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, Poets by Richard Avedon. Sold for $8,500.
Jude Law by Sasha Gosov. Sold for $2,100.
Tiger (a portrait of porn star Tiger Tyson) by Pierre et Gilles. Estimated between $60,000 and $90,000.