Murakami's "My Lonesome Cowboy" sculpture was expected to go for about $4 million at Sotheby's this week, but apparently it was much more popular than anyone could have anticipated.

"My Lonesome Cowboy" was purchased for $15.1 million, in a winning bid called in by telephone — which we think is kind-of lame; if you're cool enough to spend $15.1 million on something like this, you should be cool enough to do it in public, right?

Anyway, luckily, there's still another Lonesome Cowboy waiting for us at the Brooklyn Museum's Murakami exhibit, which we're totally going to see. Someday. Before it closes.

[NYT via Gawker]