Art: There Are The Old Masters and Then There's This

A 3000-year old bas relief was hammered down for $31 million ($35 mil. with the buyer's premium) at Christie's.
CNN—formerly a Ted "colorized" Turner property— glommed onto the digital rendering that Christie's had created.

From NPR:

Record-Setting Sale Of An Ancient Assyrian Stone Relief Sparks Looting Fears In Iraq
A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears among some archaeologists that soaring prices will fuel the market for looted antiquities as well as legally acquired ones.

The 7-foot bas-relief from the palace of Nimrud in present-day Iraq was acquired in the 19th century, long before there were laws prohibiting the wholesale removal and export of archaeological treasures.
Christie's described it as "the finest example of Assyrian art to have come onto the market in decades."...MUCH MORE

Here's Christie's Lot no. 101.
Although they don't say so, I'd ascribe it to the School of  Kunusskunkilasshur.
Or maybe some other Assyrian dude