Erica Kovitz created seven mixed-media artworks using the remnants of marijuana cigars smoked by Snoop Dogg. The pieces attracted 23 bids during a three-day online auction and sold for $9,000 to $70,000 each, totaling $148,100. The sale included works incorporating a Tiffany Blue panel, a CD of Doggystyle, ashes, a roach, and Snoopzilla's 1993 LAPD mugshot. Snoop Dogg signed most works as "Snoop Dogg" and used the full "Snoop Doggy Dogg" for the top lot. Kovitz credits her husband Jay Kovitz and Kevin Barkey with the original idea and frames the collection as bridging street authenticity and fine-art credibility.
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure. And if the first man happens to be one Snoop D.O. Double G, any refuse he produces could be worth many Gs, as demonstrated this week by the artist Erica Kovitz. Seven unique mixed-media works Kovitz made with the remnants (or roaches) of marijuana cigars (or blunts) smoked by Snoop Dogg racked up 23 bids over a three-day online auction that closed on 18 August.
The sale's top lot, , included a roach, marijuana ashes and a copy of Snoopzilla's 1993 Los Angeles Police Department mugshot. And while every other work in the sale had been signed by Calvin Broadus with his more succinct "Snoop Dogg" alias, he revived his "retired signature"-the full "Snoop Doggy Dogg"-for the Genesis Burn work, which ultimately sold for $70,000.
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