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Picasso's 'Boy With a Pipe' Sets Auction Record
Fox News ^ | 2004/05/06 | Fox

Posted on 05/06/2004 7:02:52 AM PDT by Truth666

NEW YORK — Pablo Picasso's 1905 painting "Boy with a Pipe" (search) sold for $104 million Wednesday at Sotheby's, shattering the record for an auctioned painting.
The total includes the auction price of $93 million plus the auction house's commission of about $11 million.
The previous record was set by Vincent van Gogh's 1890 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet," which was sold to a Japanese billionaire for $82.5 million in 1990 at Christie's. That price included the auction house's premium.
A 24-year-old Picasso painted "Boy with a Pipe" soon after settling in Montmartre, France. It depicts a young Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland of flowers. John Hay and Betsey Whitney bought the painting in 1950 for $30,000.
Sotheby's called the work, which had a presale estimate of $70 million, "one of the most beautiful of the artist's Rose Period paintings and one of the most important early works by Pablo Picasso ever to appear on the market."
The previous highest-selling Picasso piece was "Woman with Crossed Arms," a Blue Period painting done in 1901 and 1902, which sold for more than $55 million in November 2000 at Christie's. It was the fifth-highest auction price paid for a work of art.

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KEYWORDS: art; turass
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To: dighton

Official logo of the Libertarian Party?

21 posted on 05/06/2004 7:35:03 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Der Elite Møøsënspåånkængrüppen ØberKømmändø (EMØØK))
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To: Truth666
Do any of you remember an old Saturday Night Live skit, where Jon Lovitz is Picasso, and he sneezes into a napkin, signs it, and says "I'm Picasso!!!"? While there are a couple pieces of his I really like, most of it is snot in a napkin :-P
22 posted on 05/06/2004 7:36:45 AM PDT by Guvmint_Cheese
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To: Agnes Heep
I don't see anything particularly meritorious in this painting

Simply that is a Picasso that you can actually look at... unlike those ridiculous "Cubism" monstrosities.

23 posted on 05/06/2004 7:39:55 AM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Truth666
Yes of course. Was searching trying to find Velazquez's "The Piper". It is a stunning painting which outshines any of the rest posted on this thread.
24 posted on 05/06/2004 7:42:59 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Truth666

I'm ready to testify about Michael Jackson now

25 posted on 05/06/2004 7:46:33 AM PDT by pbear8 (Brainstorm or light drizzle?)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
So, do you know more than google about the previous Picasso record ?
(I excluded 2004, which returns additionally the results related to this auction)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Woman+with+Crossed+Arms%2C%22+picasso+-2004
26 posted on 05/06/2004 7:54:54 AM PDT by Truth666
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To: Truth666
Picasso?

Pick your own "asso"!

27 posted on 05/06/2004 7:57:49 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey
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To: Truth666
Rebel against the leftist/modernist tyranny!

Art Renewal Center

28 posted on 05/06/2004 8:04:10 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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To: dighton; Truth666; general_re; BlueLancer; Poohbah; hellinahandcart; Constitution Day
This particular case has additionally something special. Can anyone also see it ?

I know but I don't trust anyone on this thread.

29 posted on 05/06/2004 8:08:37 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Thanks for the link
30 posted on 05/06/2004 8:14:08 AM PDT by Truth666
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To: Truth666
This particular case has additionally something special.
Can anyone also see it?




Yeah. It's homo-erotic art.
The kid's got a hard-on in his pants going up his left leg,
and spread legs which are the "focus" of the composition.
31 posted on 05/06/2004 8:21:10 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

32 posted on 05/06/2004 8:29:08 AM PDT by CaptainK
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To: eddie willers
Yep. Personally I think it's beautiful. But I got outbid, dang it.

FWIW, a lot of Picasso's representative stuff has a presence to it that doesn't translate well to scanning and reproduction. See one of his in a gallery among other paintings and it just seems to jump off the wall at you. The difference (to me) between Picasso and lesser talents that throw paint at a canvas and call it art, is that Picasso really could draw a lamp when he wanted to.

33 posted on 05/06/2004 8:30:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Guvmint_Cheese
Actually Picasso rarely carried money. He would just doodle on a napkin and hand it to a waitress and say 'here, it's a Picasso'. I know of one incident where he tried to pay for a plane ticket with a doodle.
34 posted on 05/06/2004 8:30:49 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs (I am trying to stop an outbreak here and you're driving the monkey to the airport.)
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To: EggsAckley
Guy's nose and eyes and stuff are all in the right places.

What's up with that?

I say FORGERY!

Dan
(c8
35 posted on 05/06/2004 8:31:02 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
The winning bidder, a hard life public servant:


36 posted on 05/06/2004 8:33:30 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: BibChr
Yeah, you're right. I like the ones that have three eyes and the nose coming out the side of the head where an ear should be.
37 posted on 05/06/2004 10:02:34 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Pas une fille, mais qu'est ce c'est que cela?
38 posted on 05/06/2004 10:07:57 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (Ong lam hanh huong di La Vang)
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To: ThanhPhero
Une peinture. "Ceci n'est une pipe" is the title of a famous painting.
39 posted on 05/06/2004 10:18:51 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Truth666
no doubt this "masterpiece" will be "processed" the same way
40 posted on 05/06/2004 12:20:11 PM PDT by Truth666
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