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Million Dollar Harley, art for collectors
of Jack Armstrong
V-Rod 2009
Harley-Davidson Cosmic
(Photo: AFP)
Harley-Davidson Cosmic Starship Million Dollar
Harley - Collector's Art by Jack Armstrong There are
few artists who can attract the desire of collectors,
and among them, one does it particularly well. This is
the Omaha-born American Jack Armstrong, who
worked with Andy Warhol, who nicknamed him The
Last Magician in 1985, Jean-Michel Basquiat and
Keith Haring, and taught painting to David Bowie,
Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson, who, by the
way, were successful in buying his creations. He is
the last surviving member of this New York art clique
of the 1980s and is the rst contemporary artist to
have created only a hundred paintings for sale,
having promised Andy that he would "only make 100
paintings in his life and then disappear into the
c o s m o s . "
This is one of the reasons why his art is
so wildly valued - it is the most expensive art in the
world by a living artist, with current prices reaching
up to $300 million and a coveted prey for big-name
collectors. The eclectic artist really gets into his work
- literally. Each piece of art contains tiny bits of the
artist's DNA and hair to add a new twist to the word
'personalised', making it impossible to fake - another
high point for collectors. The supreme provenance of
his ground-breaking art will be discussed at the
highest levels for new generations of UHNW
collectors and their billionaire clients, including one of
the world's richest women, Alice Walton and China's
Jack Ma.