Monet and Picasso Paintings Could Fetch £35 Million (+ van Gogh, Magritte)

Barrons ^ | Feb. 8, 2022 | Ayse Kelce

[nickcarraway]

[Red Badger]

That’s a lot of Monet.....................

[Red Badger]

Monet couldn’t paint and Picasso couldn’t see.................

[sphinx]

I wonder if the new Bidens coming into the market will dilute the elite buyer pool.

[SisterK]

Monet couldn’t paint and Picasso couldn’t see.................

totally agree
both were visually and conceptually impaired

this makes art critics look like scam artists working for the communist party
one of the planks of communism is to make the culture turn on itself

[irishjuggler]

Random trivia factoid... A-bomb pioneer J. Robert Oppenheimer grew up in an apartment with three Van Gogh paintings and several Picassos.

[Osage Orange]

I love Vincent Van Gogh

Good old movie on Vincent Van Gogh...

Lust for Life... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(1956_film)

[PIF]

“Pocket change”, says Salvator Mundi.

[PIF]

this makes art critics look like scam artists working for the communist party
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As my art teacher in collage said, “Art ended after the Renaissance”.

[KeyLargo]

A bunch of Pikers. National Crack Pipe CZAR and renowned artist, will take in Billions for his art...

[GOPJ]

It’s ‘art’ alright...
/s

[Daffynition]

[Seruzawa]

There's nothing particularly new about the Art Mafia fooling wealthy people into thinking that crap is good. It's an age old scam. Look at this POS that went for over $20million a few years ago:

[GingisK]

I was walking down the hall in the local elementary school, in the kindergarten section, when I noticed a whole wall full of Picasso’s paintings.

[nickcarraway]

The Picasso I like is Guernica. It isn't visually appealing, but it does show the horrors and uglieness of war.

[Bob434]

LOL- i just bought seem of those today-

[Beowulf9]

Another good one is The yellow house:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXqrKOqVHAk

[Red Badger]

ISWYDT!......................

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I used to see Picasso like most other people, until I found a huge collection of his work in my high school library. And one of his most minor works suddenly grabbed me and convinced me of his genius.

“Minor” or “minimalist” don’t do it justice, because it had only two lines in it. And yet it was instantly recognizable, and the more I looked at it the more I realized that it was “perfect”. The lines were not straight, having some subtle curves in them.

And it was not something I could reproduce, even if I tried a thousand times. The slightest change and it would no longer be “perfect”.

This is not to say that all his works were that good, just that in his vast portfolio, there was a strong chance that hidden within was the spirit of art, if I could find it.

[Sans-Culotte]

Every time they say that (bullshit) artist’s name on Antiques Roadshow it is hushed, reverent tones.