Channel 4 has bought a painting by Adolf Hitler and will allow a studio audience to decide whether Jimmy Carr should destroy it.

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[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Literally no one knew they existed until now and they massively increased the value of all his "art" with this stunt. And it will always exist in digital form somewhere regardless of what they do.

Anyone who thinks this is anything but a contrived attention grab to make money is an idiot.

But go on and reward them with attention.

[–]HanssenBob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

His art is already very expensive.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's about to get far more expensive with someone very publicly reducing the supply.

[–]HanssenBob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not really. He was very prolific. Most of his works are in private hands, and the market for them is very much underground. This will not affect the very specialized Hitler art market.