I guess even Michelangelo had the Medicis, but I wonder if something like this will influence the auction prices for various modern art. Does a painting like t

I guess even Michelangelo had the Medicis, but I wonder if something like this will influence the auction prices for various modern art. Does a painting like this http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_57.92.jpg http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_57.92.jpg lose or gain new value in the context of being an unwitting participant in a sophisticated exercise of distraction? Does the artist's original intention behind his or her art take a second place to the newly revealed absurdist quality?