When Lars is not around music and not playing with Metallica, Lars’s 2nd passion in life is art and painting. He is a painter himself and he collects artwork by other artists as a hobby of his.
Lars is selling a painting by artist Jean-Michael Basquiat. Basquiat is a graffitti artist who died of a drug overdose in 1988 when he was 27. The name of the painting that Lars is selling is titled “Untitled (Boxer)” which the painting is a black heavyweight boxer with his arms in the air.
The Associated Press reports:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gw29QnJMwRe9S279j5QpJQCR6jLQD93NPF1O0
Why would Lars want to sell that for $12 million when I’m sure he made much more than that from the “Death Magnetic” record which made no. 1 on the Billboard for 3 weeks in a row?
I can see why Lars is always selling his own paintings and paintings by other artists because it is impossible to keep all paintings in a house.
Kev
K'Brocking 
12 mill for a Basquiat? Really? ???????
12 mill for a Basquiat? Really? ???????