By 2004, Fountain had raised to the most influential art work of the cen­tu­ry, which in itself was not sur­prising, as any bibliometrical study would have yielded the same result. This has not, however, dra­matically altered the economical value of the edi­tion of 1964, which would sell for something well off 1 million dollars, but this sum is still only a fraction of what one would expect for “the most in­fluen­tial piece of the 20th cen­tu­ry”.