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.
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’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.....................
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