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YOU MAY HAVE seen Michael Flatley’s artworks on the Late Late last Friday.
Two of the paintings – which the superstar dancer creates by dipping his feet into paint, going into deep concentration and dancing to the ‘beat in his head’ – were on display.
The segment – as you may recall – didn’t go down too well with viewers.
A sample response:
After all that, the Lord of the Dance star is having the last laugh this morning.
Laughing all the way to the bank, in fact.
The paintings, together, went for over €120,000 at the Morgan O’Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction at Dublin’s RDS last night.
‘The Flight of the Quetzal’ went for €44,000.
And ‘The Power’ sold for €77,500.
It appears those feet can do no wrong…
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He may as well had just wiped his arse with the paper ,would have got the same shite results
A fool and their money are easy parted…
And people are starving to death as we speak. What a world we live in.
He needs the money for his rhino horn collection!
Name one ?????
Quite an incredibe feet.
Gosh how sad, people actually have that much money so they buy this…. So much good could be done with the money. Sad,sad ,sad or stupidity
Oh FFS
I take it yr disgusted with the waste of money then
I liked the comment on here last week when this story broke….( so this is not my own )……..
Flatley, my dear, I don’t River dance.
Sinful waste of money
I heard that the value on these works will increase by 20% each year. Also the stupity index is rising by 20 percent. So now is the time to invest, you may contact me in my chick studio that happens to be a garden shed. I also have many other wonderful investment opportunities with alot of visiting Princes with bank account difficulties.
Fools and their money are easily parted.
I’m surprised IW havent tried to recruit him make him their ‘Lord of the Taps’
Ah would ya stop ffs
Like him or loathe him, Michael Flatley will go down in the history books as he did create shows which millions of people around the world did enjoy. I, for one, have and never have had any interest in his work, but good luck to him. Flatley did provide jobs to many people through his work and his shows still continue to do so.
It’s not the mainstream type of work but it gave employment to stage managers, grips, conductors, musicians, dancers, floor designers,shoe makers, electricians, dress designers, carpenters and many more.
As for Flatleys artwork; it only takes one investor, who most likely is of the mindset that they own paintings of a man who did wonders for the Irish dance scene in Ireland. In years down the line those paintings may be worth half a million. That’s the gamble.
In the early 80′s, Rolph Harris sold a portrait painting for £50stg of Bonnie Tyler. In early 2000 the painting was valued at £50K. When the accusations of abuse came about the painting was worth probably 50p.
The point is an investor will buy art on speculation.
Seems to me that all the begrudgers who’ve commented should have got off their ar$es and done some paintings themselves. They, too, could have made some money.
That’s crazy, I’m sure he’s rolling around the floor laughing his head off!! I’d like to think he’ll give the money to charity though, do some good with stupid peoples money.
He’ll probably cover himself in paint then roll around the floor laughing. Then sell the result!
Sure this is nothing , I hear he has plans for sculpting with his co*k
Timmay
My son did some stamp paintings in playschool today with wine bottle co*ks.. He could teach Flatley a thing or 2…
Do you hang them on the wall or lye them on the floor?
Fair play to him..he’s the definition of a self made multi millionaire..combination of hard work and being in the right place at the right time..get the feeling if he fell off a roof he’d land in feathers..
It’s notfools and their money. It’s the social and class divide in this country. And of of course the wealthy. You don’t see someone o. Befifit or disability able to afford a painting with dirtyfeet marks
Just shows you one born every minute!
Art is a very strange beast.
“Art”
Two of my paintings are in Morgan O’Driscolls May auction- Bahamas for the winter anyone?
#makingplans
The saying ” more money then sense” springs to mind. But well done to him for finding some eejet to part with their money.
Mrs flatley bought them.
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