Boy with the Pipe

[blobrana]

Hum,
 time for a bit of culture...
Pablo Picasso's "Boy with the Pipe" became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction on Wednesday when it fetched $104,168,000 at Sotheby's in New York....

Smoke It!


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[Speelgoedmannetje]

Beautiful painting that is.
Alas, such a price makes it disappear behind sterilized bars, not in a place where it belongs, it belongs in a french cafe or something like that.
(me has seen Maigret too much :-))

[Floid]

Slightly larger image, here's another, funny how nobody agrees on a color balance.  (Well, the first is of a 'reproduction,' I guess.)

Of course, let's not forget the Haunted Painting.

[blobrana]

Hum,
color balance of the differant films used, and the use of indoor lights...

Also, i noticed that the former most expensive painting may possible have been burnt/destroyed by it`s owner (to avoid inheritance tax )

Van Gogh’s Portrait de Dr Gachet (bought for $82.5 million by Ryoei Saito in 1990), has not been seen since the Japanese paper magnate died in 1996.

scotsman

Shame if it has, and we only have a few photos of it....

[Mike_Amiga]

[arty bolox]
Looks a bit like a boys head on a mans body and something bothers me about the arm holding the pipe, but then this was a period of experimentation for the artist.
[/arty bollox] :-)

[blobrana]

Hum,
so it supposed to be a young Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland of flowers.


see!

Strange way he`s holding that pipe (i assume he is right handed)...it`s backwards...holding it for someone else?...

And the style is almost japanese, (black borders around block colours...)

[Mike_Amiga]

The lad looks a tad PO'd as well, perhaps he took a drag from the wrong end of the pipe? :-o  :lol:  :-o