The above image proves that I am Picasso...
Posted on 03/23/2015 1:01:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
French court gives a former electrician and his wife a two-year suspended sentence for stealing artworks worth over £40 million
A French court has convicted a retired electrician and his wife of concealing 271 stolen artworks by Picasso, and ordered the couple to give them back to the artist's family.
The verdict on Friday in the southern city of Grasse wraps up an unusual case centering around works that were unknown to the public for decades and have an estimated worth 60-100 million euros (£43-72 million).
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We’re talking about a guy who was renowned for paying his restaurant and bar tabs with a scribble on a napkin, rather than cash. I’m not finding the electrician’s story far-fetched.
So the SNL skit was based on a real story. I did not know that.
Picasso died 42 years ago. How can they prove this man doesn’t have them legally?
Nor do I. Normally, a workman doesn’t work for nothing. Thus the story makes sense. I do not know if there were money payments alongside some of the paintings/dwgs. But a lawyered elite would never allow a lowly workman to profit from such ambiguity. You can be sure that huge money was paid to the judge in this case. Huge.
I can’t wait to see Picasso’s Roto-Rooter man’s collection...
Anyone check the plumbers basement?
HA! That’s right I remember that one, with John Lovitz. “I’m PICASSO!” LOL!
“I’m not finding the electrician’s story far-fetched.”
Yeah, but 271 seems like he was a REALLY high-priced electrician. Dude should have gotten bills-of-sale, though.
A former co-worker of mine said that his mother and father met Picasso on a beach somewhere. He was painting a landscape. They said they really liked the painting, so he gave it to them.....................
Must have been union scale......................
Unfortunately he has no receipts...........
What's the evidence for that? Where they there? Picasso died in 1973, 42 years ago
He has possession. They need to provide proof that the painting are not his.
Indeed, possession is 9/10’s of the law. Unless someone else can produce a receipt or some other document showing that they own the paintings, the one who possesses them must be assumed to be the owner.
Musta been a whole-house rewire with a new 200A service. Or maybe he negotiated down from 300 stolen paintings to only 271.
“Yeah, but 271 seems like he was a REALLY high-priced electrician.”
Price is all subjective. The cost of a meal doesn’t equal the cost of a Picasso drawing, objectively, but in Picasso’s mind, that was a fair trade. I think others valued the man’s work more than he did himself.
I've read a few biographies. The guy was a legendary tightwad. And he was not given to kind (let alone grand) gestures toward his lessers, as he would have seen them.
He also had such an exalted view of himself and his work...there is NO WAY he would have given this guy anything more than a sketch, a clay knick-knack or maybe something he couldn't stand anyway. IMHO
How dare you post such graphic filth on a family forum!
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