Acquiring, collecting, investing, enjoying...they all merge somewhere.
This painting might get the purchaser laid 407 times. Or when he dies, the profit from it might buy his kids a retail pizza chain. Or maybe this guy doesn't even like Picasso...but he really likes pipes. And he has billions, and this is just the most precious item you can purchase that relates to a pipe.
Without meeting the guy, you have no idea his intentions or reasoning. I don't see the beauty in that painting that makes it that valuable. But then again, they aren't making any more Picasso's...and especially big ones in perfect condition like this.
