Picasso's 'Boy With a Pipe' Sets Auction Record

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[BlueLancer]

Official logo of the Libertarian Party?

[Guvmint_Cheese]

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

[eddie willers]

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.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

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.

[pbear8]

I'm ready to testify about Michael Jackson now

[Truth666]

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

[Sir_Humphrey]

Picasso?

Pick your own "asso"!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Rebel against the leftist/modernist tyranny!

Art Renewal Center

[aculeus]

This particular case has additionally something special. Can anyone also see it ?

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

[Truth666]

Thanks for the link

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

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.

[CaptainK]

[Billthedrill]

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.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

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.

[BibChr]

Guy's nose and eyes and stuff are all in the right places.

What's up with that?

I say FORGERY!

Dan
(c8

[Reeses]

The winning bidder, a hard life public servant:

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

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.

[ThanhPhero]

Pas une fille, mais qu'est ce c'est que cela?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Une peinture. "Ceci n'est une pipe" is the title of a famous painting.

[Truth666]

no doubt this "masterpiece" will be "processed" the same way