Should be worth about $10m to Steve Cohen if the artist had pickled the bull or Madoff in a tank. http://www.artnewsblog.com/2006/06/replacing-dead-shark.htm
That is a very cool piece. He should continue to do more pieces about how manipulated wall street is.
More self-aggrandizing art for the I-Bank & Hedge Fund crowd. This will go the way of the paintings of the dollar sign that were popular in the 80's and enjoyed a resurgence. Chief function of a piece like this is to allow people 100 years from now to look at it and go "What were they thinking?" But a smart idea to sell it as "Madoff-like". Now only if his potential buyers had any money left. Should'a thought that one through more.