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Missing Picasso Spotted at Home of Former Philippines First Lady
New York Post ^ | May 13, 2022 | Natalie O'Neill

Posted on 05/13/2022 2:53:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A missing Pablo Picasso painting was spotted at the home of the Philippines’ controversial former first lady — as she celebrated her son’s presidential victory, according to a former official familiar with the artwork.

Imelda Marcos — the widow of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos — was filmed hugging her son, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., in footage that aired this week with the apparent long-lost masterpiece “Reclining Woman VI” hanging on a wall behind them.

The bombshell in the background was broadcast in a news segment by the local station TV Patrol Tuesday after Marcos Jr. became the country’s next president in a landslide victory.

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To: nickcarraway

Ju$t another elite enjoying the fruit of her $tatu$ much like our own DC $wamp.


41 posted on 05/13/2022 4:38:07 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( adn)
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To: higgmeister

Millionaire communist Picasso looked upon art as a business and he was very successful


42 posted on 05/13/2022 4:51:09 PM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y,)
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To: lee martell

Tourism actually expanded a lot since the 1990s. It was turning into a considerable business pre-Covid. The hot spots were beach resorts, scuba diving lications (El Nido), surfing, etc. It had gotten to @15% of Thailand.


43 posted on 05/13/2022 5:03:52 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Born to Conserve

That is very, very stupid and ignorant of you.

Most Filipinos were always lowland rice farming peasants with an overbearing native aristocracy. It was a feudal culture. No headhunting or cannibalism even in pre-Colonial days. And when the Spanish came they were extremely Catholic for the next 450 years.

The pagan hill tribes largely remained pagan and tribal. These guys did the head hunting. There were never many of these tribal people. The highlands couldnt support many people.

As far as I know there never were cannibals anywhere in the Philippines.


44 posted on 05/13/2022 5:10:16 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: DoodleDawg
If Hunter Biden ran for President of the Philippines he would lose because he’s too honest.

Why the Phillipines? He already runs the West Wing, so it seems.

45 posted on 05/13/2022 5:21:00 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: nickcarraway

I thought she was long dead. Who knew?!


46 posted on 05/13/2022 5:22:59 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I remember the 1986 elections in the Philippines (in which Marcos cheated his a$$ off) - he had gangs of thugs going around breaking up opposition rallies and all the thugs wore black t-shirts that said “Vote Intelligently”. He was a real bad guy, but you have to admit that’s funny in a dark sort of way.


47 posted on 05/13/2022 5:24:07 PM PDT by happyathome
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To: buwaya

Good for them. That’s being resourceful. If they are de-masking as we are in America, the economy will recover within about 18 months.


48 posted on 05/13/2022 5:47:30 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: buwaya

You fool! You have the internet at your fingertips, and you resort to spouting your fantasies. Do a little googling, idiot.


49 posted on 05/13/2022 6:45:42 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

Internet?
I was born there and have a library on Philippine history.

I call you out as a fool. And possibly a drunkard.


50 posted on 05/13/2022 7:11:36 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: leaning conservative

She is very old. And she is supposedly pretty much out of it from dementia these days, but she hangs on. As the old Spanish dicho has it, “bicho malo nunca muere” - bad critters never die.


51 posted on 05/13/2022 7:15:08 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: princess leah

Amazing. Who even knew she was still alive.


52 posted on 05/13/2022 7:19:43 PM PDT by Lockbar (Hate has no home in my house. It just rents space in my attic.)
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To: Broker

It was the Manila International Film Festival venue that collapsed, in 1981.

https://rheatumanan29.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/behind-the-story-of-manila-film-festival/#:~:text=It%20was%20developed%20to%20house%20the%201st%20Manila,fell%20over%20an%20unknown%20number%20of%20construction%20workers.

It was built near the Cultural Center (where I have been many times, once to hear Andres Segovia). Its in the same reclamation project on Manila Bay.


53 posted on 05/13/2022 7:20:03 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: billorites

It came close with Duterte . . . . . before he went off the tracks.


54 posted on 05/13/2022 8:00:58 PM PDT by knarf (Little kids grow up to be adults that get into powerful positions and act out their thoughts.)
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To: nickcarraway

How do they know it’s not a replica?


55 posted on 05/14/2022 5:48:49 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: buwaya

That’s the truth.


56 posted on 05/14/2022 6:14:55 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Just saw this ping.

I love abstraction, but this seems facile and not one of Picasso’s best works.

Interesting story. So it was stolen, then hidden and now out in the open again.

Hmmmm.


57 posted on 05/14/2022 9:19:42 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: billorites

Philippine politics is monolithic. King of the mountain. No room for opposition. Pure power Remember Ninoy!!


58 posted on 05/14/2022 10:10:35 AM PDT by Broker (Truth & Transparency & Equal Justice)
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To: buwaya

Ah, born there. Bias much?
Again, do a little research if you want to crush your fantasy world.


59 posted on 05/14/2022 10:25:34 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: ShawnShawntheLeprecaun

I guess a fake Picasso wasn’t good enough, and I’m sure there are artists out there they could reproduce anything of a scale that Picasso did almost exactly - and not nefariously but just to decorate a wall someplace like hers.

Wow...


60 posted on 05/14/2022 3:45:05 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, bust that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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