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Got a couple, three million bucks lying around? You can have a portrait of Stephen Colbert. Genuine printed vinyl! It's currently going for the bargain price of $2.4 million (the money is going to charity).

UPDATE: The price has dropped to 6K.

details from the auction:

The portrait, which depicts Stephen standing by his fireplace and in front of a previous portrait, will be replaced with a new portrait, which depicts Stephen standing by his fireplace, in front of a previous portrait, in front of a previous portrait. At least one critic has already heralded the Stephen Colbert Portrait Series as “the equivalent of the Genius Grant, the Fibonacci Sequence, and ‘The DaVinci Code’ combined.”

What The Critic says:

While certainly not the first work to champion metastasis, assymetry, topography, decay, multiplicity, and, crucially, mischief in the quadrolinear plane--and let's not resign the vanguard to mere chronology, for Clobbmann's "Auto-Clobb" did exemplify this alchemy quite potently, and more than twelve years ago--the "Colbert" is truly, irrefutably, a masterwork: colorist in its flair, theorist in its proclivity, dadaist in its zeitgeist. If there's one painting you buy on eBay this year...

--S. Adam LeBaz, Art Critic

Unfortunately I don't have that kinda dough, so I'll just buy Bonnie Dee's latest novella.

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