No 15-minute rule! No snipes! No 4 a.m. endtime!

[jhs5120]

Truly a beautiful piece of art, sold for half of what I thought it would.

BTW: first post!

[Vol]

Who would be comfortable knowing that a 100 million dollar painting was hanging in their home?

Wasn't three Picasso's stolen last year from a home?

Answered my own question and Googled it. Here is the Times account of the theft....
His granddaughter to boot!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/ar...gn/01pica.html

[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by VOLnVEGAS

Who would be comfortable knowing that a 100 million dollar painting was hanging in their home?

Wasn't three Picasso's stolen last year from a home?

Answered my own question and Googled it. Here is the Times account of the theft....
His granddaughter to boot!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/ar...gn/01pica.html

Must have bumped her locks...

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=123370

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

Must have bumped her locks.

The new owner of the Picasso should keep it in a "Fort Knox" gun safe, with a few glocks and some ammo if he is going to keep that painting in his house.

[quinnsryche]

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

Must have bumped her locks...

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=123370

Could see that one coming from a mile away!
By the way, VERY funny.
Also, Picasso sucks. Rembrandt is the MAN!

[uffda51]

This was the coveted "no stats" version.

The fine print in the catalog clearly states "NO PAY-PAL. Shipping - $2.95 USPS, in a padded mailer."

[E93]

I think it is a reproduction. The color is slightly different from other Picasso paintings from the same year. You would think somebody who would buy something like that would do their homework. They must be really stupid and I must be superior to them.
JimB

[Peter_Spaeth]

It's not a reproduction, it's a proof. The colors are so deep because he had a fresh palette.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by quinnsryche

Also, Picasso sucks. Rembrandt is the MAN!

Almost everybody is superior to Picasso. The more I look at his stuff the more I scratch my head.

Makes me think I should start investing in R302's.

[botn]

I have not seen the painting or even an image of it but I think there is something very odd about it based on what I was told by someone who did see an image of it. The type of pain used on the leaves (there are leaves, right?) is not the right shade of green.

[calvindog]

Greg, I think you made a Freudian slip; you wrote that the leaves were covered in 'pain.' I appreciate your appreciation for the suffering of the leaves in the painting.

[JasonL]

about finding it in Grandpa's attic.

But I do hear that there are a pair of african american gentlemen from Ohio going pawn shop to pawn shop hither and yon, trying to convince the world that theirs is the real one...and they won't take Joe Orlando's "No" for an answer!