An Italian artist created a monument documenting every single English soccer loss from 1847 to 1998 and recently sold it at auction for an absurd amount of money. The artist's name is Maurizio Cattelan and he created the work by engraving the final scores of all English National Team losses into a giant slab of granite. It's like the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., without the misguided political theorizing and unnecessary death. Sotheby's auctioned the slab off on Tuesday and some giddy Irishman, or maybe Morissey a self-loathing Brit scooped it up for nearly $650,000 U.S.
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Said Catellan of his work, "I guess it's a piece which talks about pride, missed opportunities and death." Yeesh, that's pretty heavy. Still, £425,000? I dunno, I'd buy a Zlatan statue or something.[WaPo]Italian artist's monument to England's footballing failures, listing every defeat since 1874 sells for £425k pic.twitter.com/vqIrjsqRcv
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