In yet another example of an astonishing art sale, Andy Warhol’s iconic One Dollar Bill (Silver certificate) painting sold for $32.8 million at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday, far above its pre-auction estimate. Warhol hand-painted the piece in 1962 (years before discovering his trademark silk-screen technique), after a female friend instructed him to paint “what he loved most.”
Although art is arguably one of the best ways to invest your money, we decided to figure out what else you could purchase with $32.8 million:
52,903 Dinners for two at Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy
(That’s dinner for two for 144 years)
1,312,000 Kittens adopted from a shelter
(That’s roughly one kitten for every person living in San Diego, CA)
5,475,792 Shake Shack Burgers
(That’s one burger for every person that enrolled in Obama Care in 2014)
728,889 Blow outs at Dry Bar
(That’s 728,889 examples of a girl being lazy)
886,486 Single Soul Cycle Classes with Shoe Rental
(That’s probably also an 800 number for some kind of debt collector)
2,273 Ostrich Hermes Birkin Bags
2,188,125 Bottles of Fat Jewish’s White Girl Rosé
(That’s 2.1 million bottles of rosé to hoard and get white girl wasted)
284 2015 Mercedes-Benz G-Class Wagons
1,929 Apple Watch Sport Editions in Gold
(That’s also the year Audrey Hepburn was born)
109 Harvard Undergraduate Educations
(That’s a degree for each person arrested in Agra, India recently for public urination)
1 Beach-front estate in the Hamptons on 2.5 acres
(That’s how many houses in the Hamptons I will never own)
