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Why does this make me think of a Monty Python sketch:
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.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
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October 17, 2006 4:14 pm
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I’ll start the bidding at $1.
“A stitch in time…” can save a couple million bucks.
I still have not figured out why anyone would pay more than $1.95 for a Picasso in any condition. And that only because you could cut it up into Cubist coasters.
That’s possibly the most honest instant reaction I’ve heard in some time.
Now that would make me cry!
Not for nothing, but how hard did he have to hit it with his elbow to punch a hole in canvas? Canvas is pretty tough stuff.