It's day two of the Yves Saint Laurent auction and the financial crisis doesn't appear to be keeping people from spending tens of millions of dollars for pieces of the collection.

A collector shelled out $28,341,909 for a chair today. Yes, a chair. The estimate for the piece was between $2,587,711 - $3,881,567, about $25 million below what someone actually paid.

On Monday night the auctionset sales records for Brancusi, Mondrian and Matisse works. See the price list here for more shocking evidence of who's playing the fiddle while Rome burns.