Week 3 in the League Of F.A.M.E.© was ebay auction week.  It was scored using ebay auction results counting the total $ amount of sold listings (authentic AND knock-off) during the calendar week of October 13th – October 19th, 2013.  Our teams are getting more savvy by the week, and there were some especially interesting add/drops here.   In a move that smelled of cotton candy, both tasty and disgusting, Will Brown dropped Terry Richardson and picked up Walt Disney.  That combined with Thomas Kinkade, an original draft pick of team Will Brown, was enough to topple the board for a week 3  victory.  Switchblade sisters made a similar move by picking up Beatrix Potter and dropping SWOON,  and Du Champs made a brilliant move by dropping Martin Kippenberger for Salvador Dali, who proved to be a huge force.  Below are the teams scores in order of their finish this week.  We also noted each move next to the corresponding player.

1st – Will Brown – Total score = $153,093.02   (45 F.A.M.E. points)

Thomas Kinkade – $49,396.51 sold

Walt Disney – $94,966.45 sold     (dropped Terry Richardson)

Charles Schultz – $197.59 sold

Barry McGee – $84.99 sold

Keith Haring – $8,447.48 sold

2nd – Du Champs – Total score =$109,626.84   (40 F.A.M.E. points)

Salvador Dali – $74,270.71 sold     (dropped Martin Kippenberger)

Takashi Murakami – $26,952.18 sold

Jean Michel Basquiat – $4,484.93 sold

Yoko Ono – $3,181.56 sold

John Cage – $737.46 sold

3rd – The Something Something Art Cliche – Total score = $56,160.01   (35 F.A.M.E. points)

Yayoi Kusama – $5,220.52 sold

Paul McCarthy – $40.00 sold

Banksy – $33,143.10 sold

Tim Burton – $17,756.39 sold

Hennessy Youngman – $0.00 sold

4th – Jackson Bollocks – Total score = $43,506.22   (30 F.A.M.E. points)

Andy Warhol – $35,005.58 sold

Claude Monet – $3,027.86 sold

Jackson Pollock – $4,690.34 sold

Jim Campbell – $0.00 sold

M.C. Escher – $782.44 sold     (dropped Mona Hatoum)

5th – PRtists – Total score = $33,405.09   (25 F.A.M.E. points)

Vincent Van Gough -$4,591.89 sold

Frida Khalo – $65.00 sold

Pablo Picasso – $27,931.35 sold

Claes Oldenburg – $169.33 sold

David Byrne – $647.52 sold

6th – Switchblade Sisters – Total score = $26,661.33   (20 F.A.M.E. points)

Beatrix Potter – $25,041.58 sold     (dropped SWOON)

Lisa Frank – $859.99 sold

Georgia O’Keefe – $528.76 sold

Kim Gordon – $84.75 sold

Louise Bourgeois – $146.25 sold

7th – Coco Bob – Total score = $22,701.95   (15 F.A.M.E. points)

Donald Judd – $469.15 sold

Ed Ruscha – $4,732.81 sold

Jeff Koons – $3,227.95 sold

Cindy Sherman – $82.04 sold

Norman Rockwell – $14,190.00 sold     (dropped Anish Kapoor)

8th – Bad At Sports – Total score = $10,307.91   (10 F.A.M.E. points)

John Baldessari – $1,738.01 sold

Mike Kelley – $0.00 sold

Richard Prince – $7,959.90 sold

Christian Marclay – $0.00 sold

Ryan McGinley – $610.00 sold

9th – Art Is Dead – Total score =$2,488.04   (5 F.A.M.E. points)

Chris Burden – $0.00 sold

Paul Klee – $1,172.86 sold

William Kentridge – $0.00 sold

Richard Avedon – $1,315.18 sold

James Turrell – $0.00 sold

 It’s the League Of F.A.M.E.© !