2 the number
of Gerhard Richter paintings the same size as the one recently sold at auction that
Eric Clapton still owns
3 the
percentage charged for buyer’s and seller’s commission by online seller
ArtViatic
5.5 the number in thousands of square meters that is the size of Larry
Gagosian’s new gallery in Paris
20 the number of years that artist Damian Hirst has lent his giant
statue of a pregnant woman waving a sword to the village of Ilfracombe in
England
26 the age in years of
Wlodzimierz Umaniec the man who defaced the Rothko painting Black on Maroon on 7 October
39 the number in millions
of dollars that it cost to set up Documenta
2012 in Kassel
41.2
the number in millions of dollars paid at auction
for one of Eric Clapton’s Gerhard Richter painting
110 the number of years the American magazine Art News has been on the stands
127.5
the amount in millions of dollars fetched by Jean-Michel
Basquiat paintings at auction over the financial year 2011-12
9000 the number of butterflies killed during Damien Hirst’s survey
exhibition at Tate Modern in London
