$179 million for a Picasso

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I'm really proud of my Ikea Monkey Air Freshener.
 
Art is nice and all. I appreciate it....but paying that kind of money for a painting is obscene- so many things that could be done with that money...it's fucking sickening really.
 
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans. If pressed, I would name that as my favorite painting.

Soft Self-portrait With Grilled Rasher of Bacon ---> favorite title.


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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War


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I had never seen that before, but guessed who painted it. I'm pretty darned proud of myself. I have actually learned quite a bit more about art from Trivia Crack, believe it or not.
 
At the same auction, Giacometti's sculpture, Pointing Man ---> $141.3 million.

Does he have a weiner? Looks like he might have a weiner.



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This thread, by the way, is now my permanent, ongoing, general art discussion thread.

I have been needing one of those.
 
IAG
Art is nice and all. I appreciate it....but paying that kind of money for a painting is obscene- so many things that could be done with that money...it's fucking sickening really.
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Pretty sure that the guy who just bought that Picasso isn't doing it for the love of art. There are some tax-sheltering schemes associated with flipping valuable art.
 
Without starting up the video: Man Ray I believe? Possibly Marcel Duchamp?

Dada

Yes, it is art.
 
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