--- title: Blue Ivy Bid $19,000 On a Piece of Art at an Auction description: Blue Ivy Carter bid $19,000 on a painting at an art auction. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ## Video: Blue Ivy Had a Strong Reaction to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Clapping at the Grammys [Watch (HLS stream): Blue Ivy Had a Strong Reaction to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Clapping at the Grammys](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FZyQ7P9g.m3u8) (0:13)  _Published 2018-01-29. Nobody tells Beyoncé what to do — except her six-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter_ by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 18, 2018 7:12 PM UTC  Recording artist Jay Z, daughter Blue Ivy Carter and recording artist Beyonce attend the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. Recording artist Jay Z, daughter Blue Ivy Carter and recording artist Beyonce attend the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. Lester Cohen—;Getty Images for NARAS by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 18, 2018 7:12 PM UTC Blue Ivy Carter is making a name for herself as an art collector. The 6-year-old daughter of [Beyoncé](http://time.com/4978939/beyonce-freedom-video-international-day-of-the-girl/) and Jay-Z attended the Wearable Art Gala with her parents in Los Angeles on Saturday night, decked out in gold and ready to buy some art. During the live auction event at the gala, which was hosted by Beyonce’s mother Tina Knowles Lawson and Richard Lawson, Blue Ivy bid $17,000 on an acrylic painting of the actor Sidney Poitier. She didn’t give up when the price bumped up to $19,000 — even after Jay-Z jokingly attempted to curb her spending. > [](https://twitter.com/The%5F%5FPrototype/status/975267736380231680) [_Vanity Fair_ reports](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/03/blue-ivy-art-auction-wearable-art-gala) Blue Ivy lost the bidding war to Tyler Perry, who won the painting for $20,000\. But that didn’t stop Blue Ivy, who next bid $10,000 and won a different piece of art made up of deconstructed law and medical texts. ## Transcript And all I know is just like dreams, these kids can't be forgotten and are worth fighting for. 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