Posted on 05/20/2020 2:25:17 PM PDT by simpson96
PARIS — An Italian woman has been identified as the lucky winner of an oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was offered up in a charity raffle Wednesday.
Raffle organizers identified her as Claudia Borgogno.
Her winning ticket was picked out in an electronic draw at the auction house Christie’s in Paris.
Organizers valued the painting, “Nature Morte,” or Still Life, as being worth 1 million euros ($1.1 million).
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I don’t get it.
Geez. Is every picture going to have people in masks from now until eternity?
Picasso’s Confession...
” Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when completely alone with myself, I haven’t the nerve to consider myself an artist in the great and ancient sense of the word. There have been great painters like Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt and Goya. I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
This is a bitter confession, mine, more painful indeed than it may seem, but it has the merit of being sincere.”—Picasso
I like a lot of Picasso’s work, such as his mural “Gurnica”, and similar Cubist collages, but this one is not ringing any bells for me. It looks like a flat collage using a Matisse’ like layout. Interesting 2D study. Not a lot more.
Yes, I am aware of it’s market value over $1 Million.
That is mostly because of the Picasso name.
My daughter is getting her Masters in Art. She went through all sorts of training in explaining why this stuff is better than, say..my scratches on a napkin.
She can drone on for hours. But in the end...it’s a Picasso.
It’s all about your gallery ties, and who likes your stuff. There is a lot of crap in the art world.
It’s a person with a mask on.
I believe it is a thumb.
It could be a thumb.
It could be a biden.
Me either.
Very true.
I’ll never forget the days when I was a young Jew,
recently graduated from Yale and in my first business,
I sought a Shadchan, or marriage broker...
To help me find a wife
I told him about my pst, about my artistic sensibilities
About my fine tastes...
Finally he arranged a date.
After the night was over I went to see him:
“How could you do this to me? She had one ear out to here,
Some kind of wild nose,
lips all over the place, one bugged-out eye...”
He said:
“Golux my boy, you’re an artist, aren’t you?
...Either you like Picasso or you don’t!”
Self portrait of Picasso in a welder’s helmet.
I had not heard that quote from Picasso.
I thought it was a parking meter.
Here you go.
http://babailov.homestead.com/PicassoConf.html
https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/topic/picasso-s-confession/
http://www.pennabilli.org/testi/picasso%27s%20confession.html
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/dec/12/germaine-greer-picasso-show-off
And then there is this....
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/09/08/entertainer/
But what happens to transform Sylvette from
is a mysterious and difficult story.
Thank you Ruy. Good links.
I think this is a lovely little piece. There is a nice play of shape, color and texture. What a nice prize!!
There are a lot of people on FR who don’t know much about abstraction, so they don’t like it. Remember that once the camera was invented in 1839, artists were free to experiment much more personally.
I have posted various art historical lectures on FR in the past. This one is on the development of Cubism: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1427099/posts
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