it's a beautiful portret from Picasso, but for this money no, I wouldn't buy it.:helpme

$81 i would pay for it

you say that like it was a bad thing :glugglug

:1orglaugh @ Soul_Rebel

sure .. its a calssy original

some people are willing to spend 500k on a car, others are willing to spend 40million on a house, some spend crazy money on buying a company as an investment.

If Art is what makes you tick, and having that picture in your living room makes you happy, I say go for it. :thumbsup

Just because you cant put yourself in their shoes doesnt mean they're retarded for wanting to buy it.

I read a lot of ignorance around...

PICASSO - One of the masters of the world's history... That painting is ONE in a lifetime.. There is only ONE in the world.. ONE !!!

It is not like anything else.. Some of you guys need to take some art classes.. and ask why paintings are so expensive.

I can find many other ways to spend that much money.. but hey that was their choice wasn't it?

where is the affiliate program for Picassos?

$35 million per sign up

plz :(

where is the affiliate program for Picassos?

$35 million per sign up

plz :(

i would pay that much only if i had my own museum 40 billion dollars and a way to make 2 million people pay 100$ to see that painting :thumbsup

That's the disgusting part. $11 - just for selling it. PAM!!!!1

if a $310,000 car to bill gates is like a 31 cent car to the average person then a 104 million painting would be like $104 to an average person.....

now if you could buy a painting today for $104 and sell it for $200 bucks a few years from now as an investment.....why wouldnt you?

That is a lot of money for an art work. If i can get 1% of that money, or .1%, i will be extremely grateful.:)

buying stuff like that for people who can afford it is always a great investment, think about it

I decorate my house and anything i buy and bring home is pretty much worthless (value) after it leaves the store I mean your everyday ordinary purchases we all make

But high end antiques and paintings seldom depreciate in value, they either stay near the same value or go up in value. So while alot of the spending habits seem the same relatively speaking to earnings...there everyday things ie cars, furniture, house, maintain a higher appreciation

you could feed a lot of kids from any country with that....but only for a little while

personally i think feeding the hungry is a bad idea...

helping others to be able to feed themselves is a better one :2 cents:

thats only a 10.6% commission.......i think everyone here would shit their pants if all adult affiliate programs started paying only 10%

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.

:2 cents:

i <3 picasso's art


just not that one

Blue Period is one of the best times in my opinion.

Guitar Player is one of my faves.

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections...c_picasso.html

whoever the auction winner is, he/she is obviously extremely wealthy..

but look at it this way, by winning the artwork at that price, he now sets a standard for Picasso art prices..

what if the person already has 5 Picasso pieces in their possesion?

its an idea, not sure if its true.

Only if I had a buyer at 105.

Oh no.. it is not even a remarkable work of him... I'm so happy without this painting but let the rich play.

that painting reminds me of that Mr Bean movie. Where he sneezed onto the picture and then wrecked it totally

From today's New York Times (full article is much longer - http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/bu...y/09paint.html)

NEW YORK'S art auctions kicked into high gear last Tuesday, ushering in a delirious, two-week intersection of prized paintings and big, big money. One of the treasures involved was on display at Sotheby's the next day: a 1905 work by Picasso, "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," which fetched $104 million, a record for a painting sold at auction.

The mating dance between art and commerce, repeated every spring and fall in Manhattan, attracts cafe society's wealthiest inhabitants - Wall Street financiers, Hollywood stars, European royalty, corporate executives, Latin American hacienda owners and even gambling moguls; Stephen A. Wynn, who has a new Las Vegas casino in the works, is said by art aficionados to be among the most active bidders this spring.

At the periphery of the froth whipped up at Sotheby's and Christie's are scores of Manhattan galleries and private dealers who, with the utmost discretion and tact, court the glitterati. Art is displayed. Toasts are made. Backs are patted. Wallets are opened. Millions of dollars quietly change hands.

This hush-hush world, its boundaries defined by handsome East Side avenues and Chelsea and SoHo side streets, is far removed from the gavels, cellphones and hubbub of the major auction houses. It is frequented by major art collectors like Joe L. Allbritton, the biggest shareholder of the Riggs National Corporation and that bank's former chief executive.

Robert J. Hurst, former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs & Company and president of the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art, is another habitué. So, too, was L. Dennis Kozlowski, Tyco International's former chief executive, whom the Manhattan district attorney's office is prosecuting on fraud charges.

What all these men share, aside from a fascination with fabulously expensive art, is that they have been investigated - or, in Mr. Kozlowski's case, indicted - in connection with possible tax avoidance on their purchases. But the three businessmen are by no means the only ones who have attracted the attention of law enforcement officials examining records of art transactions. The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance said it was investigating about 90 people it suspected of evading sales tax, largely on high-priced art and jewelry.

The sums involved are not pocket change. New York sales tax on a $10 million painting, for example, is $825,000. The state's tax agency says it has collected about $11 million in unpaid sales taxes on high-end goods over the last year alone, most from tardy buyers spurred into action by publicity about Mr. Kozlowski's tax woes.

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, who two decades ago led a wide-ranging sales tax sting aimed at New York's most prominent jewelers, has collected about $22 million in unpaid sales taxes since he began investigating high-end art tax transactions in early 2002. His art investigation, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, focused initially on Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Allbritton, because both used the services of an erudite, soft-spoken East Side art dealer named Alexander Apsis.

But the investigation soon spread to other Manhattan dealers and brokers, and focused briefly on Mr. Hurst's art transactions. According to a law enforcement official with knowledge of Mr. Hurst's transactions, he had successfully avoided paying more than $2 million in sales taxes on art until the Tyco investigation brought the unpaid taxes to light.

Mr. Morgenthau's office indicted Mr. Kozlowski in 2002, accusing him of evading about $1 million in sales tax, and has since leveled additional fraud charges accusing him and another executive of looting $600 million in cash and stock from Tyco. Mr. Allbritton, Mr. Hurst and Mr. Apsis have not been charged with any wrongdoing.

Mr. Kozlowski's lawyers have said repeatedly that their client, who is facing a second trial after the judge declared a mistrial in the first, is not guilty of any crimes. A law enforcement official said Mr. Hurst paid his outstanding sales taxes to Mr. Morgenthau's office shortly after the Tyco investigation started; Mr. Hurst said in an interview that he had no outstanding sales tax problems but declined to discuss the matter further. A lawyer for Mr. Allbritton said his client's art dealings had been reviewed by attorneys who determined that no tax payments were necessary.

Mr. Apsis declined to comment on Mr. Morgenthau's investigation. He has told at least one acquaintance that he never discussed sales tax evasion with any of his clients and does not believe he did anything wrong. Even so, the client lists of Mr. Apsis and other dealers - rosters filled with the names of powerful, wealthy people who do not want their names known - have become a source of anxiety among the chauffeured set, reminiscent of the little black book held by Sydney Biddle Barrows, a k a the Mayflower Madam, when she was charged with (and later fined $5,000 for) running a top-tier, but illegal, escort service in 1984

KRl - some of the most expensive paintings like the Warhols I mentioned etc, are traveling, they dont sit in someones home. The reason I mentioned taking care of the humidity level for Lichtensteins is becaue ot was valued at over 2 mill, and it was on private loan.

They go on loan to museums etc, they dont sit in peoples homes most of the times, its donated or showcased at a museum with the donator name under it.

From what I have seen, this is the case. Of course some collectors will, but often, these works go on displat somewhere more safe than just someones home, and are presrved for future generations in a museum etc.

Picasso invented the 2257

YUPP :glugglug

Not sure how safe an investment it is... would suck to have a house fire or to be robbed, or have your neighbour come over and sneeze on it. I wonder how much insurance is per month on a $100 million+ painting.

:Graucho

dang that's a lot of money for one painting....