The point is he was selling his own work as if they were cheap knockoffs, this certainly was not capitalizing on his fame. If he wanted to auction his art at a

The point is he was selling his own work as if they were cheap knockoffs, this certainly was not capitalizing on his fame. If he wanted to auction his art at a much higher price he could have. I think this is more like a performance art, think of the selling "knockoffs" that are actually originals and worth far more than $60 as a performance.