Naked Bea Arthur Portrait Might Fetch $2 Mil Or More At Auction

[Initech]

If Bea Arthur were alive today, the late, great actress -- who suffered no fools as Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls -- might roll her eyes at the news that a topless painting of herself has hit the auction block at Christie's.
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The 1991 portrait by John Currin, called "Bea Arthur Naked," could go for somewhere in the ballpark of $1.8-$2.5 million at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale in New York City on Wednesday night, The Huffington Post reports.

Any bidders?

Currin, whose controversial artwork has drawn both admiration and outrage, "made a small stir with his commercial-gallery debut, in 1992, which featured acrid fantasy portraits of menopausal women -- images suspended, in his words, 'between the object of desire and the object of loathing,'" wrote Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker circa 2003.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bea-arthur-naked-painting-up-523227

[NYC_SKP]

1. I'm posting the pic. She's hawt!

[Ptah]

2. Don't you wish

[Inkfreak]

3. I assume Adam Sandler will be buying it??

Yes, that was an Airheads reference. Love it.