The missed opportunity - a special Citroën DS
11/30/2016
Last Saturday (November 26, 2016), a Citroën DS 21 from 1972 was also auctioned off in Toffen as lot 17. There was no usable bid and the car was not sold.
It was the car that Mike van Audenhove and his family had once driven. And cars belonging to famous people generally fetch higher prices.
But the bidders in Toffen probably didn't know van Audenhove. This Mike, an artist who sadly died in 2009 at the age of 51, drew comic strips for a living.
They even became quite well known as "Zurich by Mike", and several books of the entertaining and thought-provoking one-page stories, which appeared in the "Züritip" of the Tages Anzeiger, were printed. And they were very popular. At least with the people of Zurich and, of course, the people of Basel, who could make fun of the people of Zurich.
So you're a comic artist, but that doesn't necessarily make you someone. That's right. However, an original page of a Tintin comicby the artist Hergé was recently auctioned off for 1.55 million euros . But that still doesn't make Mike van Audenhove a real artist, although it has to be said that Roy Lichtenstein also basically only painted large versions of comic drawings ...
Anyway, the car wasn't sold. Perhaps I should have bid, because after all I got to know Mike personally in the early nineties when he did some individual drawings for me for a marketing campaign that turned out really well. He did this (of course) without a computer back then. And he wasn't well known at the time either. I can't even remember how we came across the man.
But that's exactly the point, in 1991 hardly anyone knew him, in the mid-2000s he was a local celebrity and in 50 years' time his original drawings might be traded for millions. By then at the latest, I would have wished I had bought this Citroën. Any bets?
