I can see the boobs but beyond that ... ? Picasso did like his ladies but his renditions of the same?!
Posted on 06/07/2019 2:16:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
Philip Stapleton was perusing a thrift sale in the U.K. when he came across a painting he liked so much, he spent nearly $300 on it, even though he assumed it was fake. But after doing some research and talking to experts, the 52-year-old antique collector may have made the purchase of a lifetime – an original work by Pablo Picasso.
Stapleton said that he spent 230 British pounds ($293), even though he believed to be fake because he "loved the picture," SWNS reports. Acting on a whim, Stapleton took it Brighton and Hove Auction House, where he received the potentially good news.
“It is so exciting - one of our regular buyers came into the auction house with what he felt was a picture that had Picasso on it - he didn’t know that it was anything special," Brighton and Hove Auctions general manager Rosie May said in comments obtained by SWNS.
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I think Dali trumped them both.
I think I can do that, the dead part, for sure eventually.
There’s an old story about Picasso asking a cabinetmaker to make a chest as a gift for his lady friend Maria Callas...
It goes that the cabinetmaker asked Picasso to show him what he has in mind, so Picasso makes a sketch on a scrap of paper...
When it’s finished and Picasso goes by the shop to pick up the chest, he asks the cabinetmaker what he owes...
The cabinetmaker produces the sketch and says “Please sign your sketch”...
Anyway, that’s the way I heard it...
Ya think! lol
Dali was in a league of his own.
I can see the boobs but beyond that ... ? Picasso did like his ladies but his renditions of the same?!
I regret not being able to make it to the Dali Museum, when I was in Barcelona a few years ago.
My favorite story was the woman who brought a small table to Antiques Road Show. She had bought it years before at a yard sale for I think $25. It was just the size she was looking for to go in the house she had just moved into.
The guys on Road Show guys were beside themselves when they saw it. It turns out that it was hand crafted and made before the Revolutionary War.
She eventually sold it at auction for somewhere in excess of $400,000.
I bought an old painting from my father in law for $30. Christie’s later appraised it at $5000. It was with a bunch of stuff he was donating to a charity and I liked it and bought it.
“I guess he’ll be showing up on Pawn Stars with it. And then Rick will be calling someone who knows a little bit about art! lol”
Or maybe Chumlee will be on duty, buy it for $500 and then trade it for some comic books. :-)
I recently found a Renoir being thrown away with a bunch of other stuff. I took a picture of it and sent it to an auction gallery. Turns out it was not a drawing but a lithograph and is only worth about $200. But always check. You never know.
Dali was almost supernaturally good with what he was trying to do. His modeling techniques, his use of light, color and proportion, his knowledge of human anatomy, his sense of a dramatic two dimensional composition were extraordinary.
Meanwhile, I hear that he was a rather strange a creepy fellow. A natural showman.
Caravaggio was another genius during his time.
“famous for writing checks for nearly everything he bought. Many of the recipients would never cash the checks and just keep it as a souvenir”
Henry Kissinger did the same thing, or so I’ve been told
That could present a problem some day.
“I guess he’ll be showing up on Pawn Stars with it. And then Rick will be calling someone who knows a little bit about art! lol”
Funny story three years ago I was contacted by Pawn Stars based on a rare vinyl record I had up for Sale on eBay. They wanted me to come to Vegas on my own nickle for the POSSIBLE opportunity to accept a low ball price in order to be be on the show with said record. I passed and subsequently sold the record for $1800.
That explains all the Georgia O’Keefe paintings tucked behind the furnace. Thanks, Ma.
Love it.
I love to hear stories like that. Antiques Road show is fun to watch.
I bought a Marc Chagall Litho at a Thrift Shop for $75.00 and it turned out to be worth $3500.00!! YEAH!
I think a lot of those stories are staged.............
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second thing that struck me about the picture was, “Nice set of jugz.”
Then I started to wonder, what else is going on in that picture?
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