{"id":13003,"date":"2023-11-03T21:52:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13003"},"modified":"2023-11-06T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:54:49","slug":"boom-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/03\/boom-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/neoclassical-bust-scottish-shed-2387465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Forgotten Bust Found Propping Up a Storage Shed Could Net $3 Million for a Tiny Scottish Town<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The auction record for a Bouchardon bust was set in 2012 by the Louvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/about\/richard-whiddington-26560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by Richard Whiddington<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2023\/10\/Bouchardon_Bust_No_Background_for_web.jpeg\" alt=\"Bouchardon\" title=\"Bouchardon\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bouchardon Bust, 1728, Edm\u00e9 Bouchardon. Image: courtesy Highland Council.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A 18th-century bust created by artist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/market\/a-brief-history-of-neoclassical-art-32742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edm\u00e9 Bouchardon,<\/a>&nbsp;who served sculptor to French King Louis XV, and was later bought by a Scottish local government for just a few pounds may soon be sold for millions to benefit public programs\u2014but not before the public has had its say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scotland\u2019s Highland Council will allow members of the local community to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highland.gov.uk\/news\/article\/15652\/easter_ross_area_committee_members_agree_move_to_public_consultation_to_decide_future_of_historic_bouchardon_bust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voice their opinion<\/a>\u00a0on the fate of the multimillion-dollar bust, currently held by the Invergordon Common Good Fund. The port town in eastern Scotland has a population of fewer than 4,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1930, Invergordon Town Council spent \u00a35, roughly $500 today, on a marble sculpture of Sir John Gordon, an 18th-century Scottish landowner and political figure, by the French artist Bouchardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sotheby\u2019s, which is acting on behalf of the Council, recently received an offer of more than $3 million for the bust, an amount the auction house believes represents close to peak value. The record for a Bouchardon bust is \u20ac3 million (about $3.2 million), which the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/louvre-trial-jean-luc-martinez-2365241\" target=\"_blank\">Louvre<\/a>\u00a0paid at French auctioneer Aguttes for the bust\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/collections.louvre.fr\/en\/ark:\/53355\/cl010094107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Marquis de Gouvernet<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiquestradegazette.com\/news\/2012\/25m-bust-heads-a-rare-feast-of-sculpture-in-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2012<\/a>. As part of any deal, the council is requiring that the buyer provide a museum-quality replica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/neoclassical-bust-scottish-shed-2387465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet A Forgotten Bust Found Propping Up a Storage Shed Could Net $3 Million for a Tiny Scottish Town The auction record for a Bouchardon bust was set in 2012 by the Louvre. by Richard Whiddington A 18th-century bust created by artist&nbsp;Edm\u00e9 Bouchardon,&nbsp;who served sculptor to French King Louis XV, and was later bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}