Picasso Portrait Depicting His Young Mistress Could Sell for Over €113 Million at Auction

Euronews ^ | 26/09/2023 | Theo Farrant

[Blurb2350]

Yeah, he was a nasty piece of work. He burned one of his lady friends — Dora Maar? — with cigarettes. Two of his wives / girlfriends committed suicide, two others had nervous breakdowns. His son died of alcoholism and his grandson killed himself.

[TheConservativeTejano]

I was going to borrow a few bucks, and bid on that Picasso. But I decided to buy the picture below instead. It was cheaper, and also more interesting. (Notice Grant on the far left and Coolidge , Harding, and Hoover in the background on the right.)

Partner, these are all great men who loved their country.

[SisterK]

flounders
LOL
you win the thread

[boycott]

That must be what inspired Hunter Biden to become an artist.

[moovova]

Yeah. I’m gonna have to check under the sofa cushions for loose change if I want to attend this auction.

[RedMonqey]

Will the eco nuts please throw some soup on this painting!!!!

[irishjuggler]

“Go to college on me, sonny. I’m Picasso!”
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/portrait-of-the-artist-pablo-picasso/2868073

[jonrick46]

If you like blonds Pablos mistress was a beauty. Not many photos of Marie Thérèse Walter, but this one shows what she was in a poor quality grainy photo of her.

[Fresh Wind]

Looks like an art skool project.

[Reeses]

You’d think a successful art painter would have an eye for beauty. She’s a 6, really a 5, plus 1 for the blonde hair.

[Beowulf9]

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
~Pablo Picasso

I guess that’s what he did when he did this one.

[jonrick46]

I’m not impressed with Marie Thérèse Walter’s athletic appearance. Maybe Pablo was attracted to her passion in an abstract way. A week after they met, Pablo was in a sexual relationship with Marie, then seventeen years old, while he was married to Olga Khokhlova, an Ukrainian ballerina.

Pablo had several affairs with women who also served as models for his paintings. Go here for the list of them:

https://www.anialuk.com/en/2017/09/19/pablo-picasso-women/

[Reeses]

Part of Picasso’s appeal must be how otherwise average everything about him was. Everyone’s first internal reaction is: I could have done that! He definitely favored quantity over quality in everything, buying his paint in 5 gallon buckets. What he created was a canvas cryptocurrency.