Yesterday Christie’s set the auction record by selling a Picasso for $106.5 million to an anonymous bidder, breaking Sotheby’s record for a $104.3 mill Giacometti. The reclining Coco-esque blond in “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” is his young mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, so that’s twisted, post-coital smugness you’re looking at. She also looked like this, before he knocked her up and exchanged her for a fresher assortment of mistresses/wives/furniturized female forms. There’s not much to this painting aside from its assigned value, really, and the artistic process may have sounded something like this: “Want to be part of art history? Ok, lie down next to this curtain.” |NYT|
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Picasso’s Painting of Blond Mistress Sets Record, Is Fug
By Marina Galperina |
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Gee, Marina, I have to confess that I liked this painting until you edumacated me. Hope that's not my misogynism showing.
(Seriously, great post.)
whoever has 105 million to spend on a painting deserves to die
Blank canvas = $82
Acrylic paint = $43
Brush = $3
Selling price of completed painting = $106 Million
Money that went to Haiti = $0
Money is for old art. For everything else, there is Haiti.
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