Bruce Richards’ Modern Living depicts a single card balancing precariously atop a 14-story tower of cards. The oil-on-canvas painting, nearly five feet tall, was part of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s massive art collection that was auctioned off February 1 in Washington.

The collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf played out over a few months, but it took less than a minute to auction off most of the pieces in the firm’s art collection. Modern Living, valued between $1,000 and $2,000, sold for $700.