: Yeppers, at FC2002, one piece went for $6000 by Goldenwolf, a couple of
: others went over $2000 and another half dozen (at least) pieces that went
: for over $1000. I think only a couple of those over $1000 pieces were adult
: in nature.

Goldenwolf does some beautiful art.  If she can sell an original for $6000,
more power to her, and I hope the purchaser gets a lot of enjoyment out of
the art.  I imagine they'll probably hang it in a prominent place in their
home after paying that much for it!  Her work's on the web:

http://www.goldenwolfen.com/portfolio/echo.htm for instance.

As for "yiffy" art selling for $576...  I guess if I saw the particular
piece the original poster was griping about, I could say whether I agree
or disagree that it was a ridiculously high price for THAT particular piece.
Saying no yiffy art could ever be worth that is going a bit far.  I've seen
some erotic sculptures by Rodin (the same guy who created the famous piece
"The Thinker"), and I think they're all precious art treasures that belong
in a museum or the collection of some snobbish wealthy art collector, just
like his other works.  If he had taken his sculpture "The Kiss" and done it
with animal heads and tails on the two nekkid people kissing, I'm sure it
would still be worth well over $576 (I know I'd gladly pay $576 for it).

Certainly no current artists of furry erotica are producing work as good as
a Rodin or a Michaelangelo.  But I certainly wouldn't say that none of them
have produced, do produce, or are capable of producing high quality works of
art, which have appeal not just because of the presence of nudity, genitalia
or sexual acts in the image, but also because of style, technique, concept,
mood, evocative power, and general artisticness and quality, nor would I say
that no such works are worth the kind of money that quality artworks that are
non-furry or non-sexual or both command at auction, and neither would I say
that this sentence isn't a run-on sentence or that it it at all short, rather
I'd say that it's quite long as compared to most other sentences (though by
no means qualified to be the world-record holder in that regard!)

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(Disclaimer: Of course if someone wants to pay a bunch of money for crappy
yiff art sometimes too, well, that's between them and the artist, ain't it?)