By Jon Hembrey, CBC News
Dead celebrities can often exhibit an eerie pull on the world of the living, a cold dead hand reaching from the past and influencing events in the present.
The record sums fetched at auction for an original, one-of-a-kind work by Picasso or Jackson Pollock might seem obvious, but few may realize that recently departed modern artists — even musicians whose works are so easily copied these days — also rake in the cash.... READ FULL ARTICLE...
Dead celebrities can often exhibit an eerie pull on the world of the living, a cold dead hand reaching from the past and influencing events in the present.
The record sums fetched at auction for an original, one-of-a-kind work by Picasso or Jackson Pollock might seem obvious, but few may realize that recently departed modern artists — even musicians whose works are so easily copied these days — also rake in the cash.... READ FULL ARTICLE...