Amazing.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Originally Posted by travrosty

picasso used to joke that anybody would buy any piece of art he made, that his terrible pieces or art would get snapped right up. he could paint some piece of junk in a short time and get 80000 for it, buy a house. he knew it was a scam.

Yes, he used to "joke" about it all the time. You, however, seem to have taken him seriously. Dave.

[steve B]

Even more interesting.

The seller was Paul Allen.
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/microso...ng-43-million/

And apparently he spent the money on a V-2 for a museum.

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/paul-al...rcraft-museum/

Pretty cool, I know which one I'd rather have, assuming I had the space for it.

Steve B

[cyseymour]

My favorite of the modern artists are Kandinsky and Basquiat. If I had those kinds of resources, I wouldn't mind dropping serious dough for either of them.

When my mother was a teenager she had the opportunity to buy a painting from an up-and-coming artist whom she really liked for $400, but it was a lot of money for her at the time, so she passed. Who was the artist? Andy Warhol.

I don't think that artists like Newman are a scam, but I do find the prices baffling.

[GasHouseGang]

All I can think of when I look at that painting is, if he had used some better painter's tape the blue paint wouldn't have bled into the white.