"I will have to werk very hurd to reestablish Mr Wynns reputation as an aurt dealour and collectour. Cato bring the laddour and pouls over here so we can secuor these other priceless masterpieces"
Dougal
Posted on 10/17/2006 9:01:12 PM PDT by verum ago
Pablo Picasso's "dream" painting has turned into a $139 million nightmare for Steve Wynn.
In an accident witnessed by a group that included Barbara Walters and screenwriters Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi, Wynn accidentally poked a hole in Picasso's 74-year-old painting, "Le Reve," French for "The Dream."
A day earlier, Wynn had finalized a record $139 million deal for the painting of Picasso's mistress, Wynn told The New Yorker magazine
The accident occurred as a gesturing Wynn, who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that affects peripheral vision, struck the painting with his right elbow, leaving a hole the size of a silver dollar in the left forearm of Marie-Theresa Walter, Picasso's 21-year-old mistress.
"Oh shit, look what I've done," Wynn said, according to Ephron, who gave her account in a blog published on Monday.
Wynn paid $48.4 million for the Picasso in 1997 and had agreed to sell it to art collector Steven Cohen. The $139 million would have been $4 million higher than the previous high for a work of art, according to The New Yorker.
Cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder paid $135 million in July for Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I."
Wynn plans to restore "Le Reve" and keep it.
As a child I was facinated by the Black and Whites of RCGorman and as an adult when he became "known" still feel his early black and whites were the best.
We love art not for any $$$$ tag but for the shear pleasure it brings to the eyes and mind.
He painted a couple of good ones in his blue period.
"Whoops" moment for the history books.
You, my friend, understand art.
lol
The art industry is a room full of whores and pimps today.
A true artist today is Mia T. (jmo)
Well said.
I painted homes for a decorator for around twenty years long ago. We had shirts and dropcloths that were more artistic than Picasso's average work.
;-)
I framed one of them.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I just love sanctimonious twits who look down their noses at people and call them derogatory names like 'cretins' in order to feel superior.
Like most of Picasso's paintings, it looks like it was painted by a kindergartner or a druggie.
I'm more the "Dogs Playing Poker" type myself.
So...
we can deduce from the portrait that Picasso's girlfriend was obese, slept a lot, and had some sort of problem with her neck vertebrae.
A hole poked in her elbow by some rich dope is the least of her problems.
I've never been there but its on my list of art museums to visit.
I have visited the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA, north of Atlanta. Great art and not one abstract painting in the whole place.
"I will have to werk very hurd to reestablish Mr Wynns reputation as an aurt dealour and collectour. Cato bring the laddour and pouls over here so we can secuor these other priceless masterpieces"
Dougal
Obviously you haven't been buying artist's oil paints lately ~ $100 is chump change ~ probably wouldn't give you a picture big enough to frame.
You're into nekkid chick paintings aren't you?
I'll give him $29.99 for it, $49.99 before it was damaged, if the frame's nice.
You owe me a new monitor and keyboard!
Piccaso's early works were magnificent. His "popular" ones are a joke.
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