Casino magnate Steve Wynn will keep and restore a Pablo Picasso painting that was accidentally damaged after Wynn put his elbow through it. He had agreed to sell the painting, called Le Rêve (The Dream), to art collector Steven Cohen for $139 million US just before the accident.The sale would have set a new record for any sale of a painting. It is $4 million US more than cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder paid for Gustav Klimt's portrait Golden Adele. Wynn paid $48.4 million US in 1997 for the Picasso,which shows Marie-Theresa Walter, Picasso's 21-year-old mistress.
Wynn, who his publicist says gestures while he talks, suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that affects peripheral vision. He struck the painting with his right elbow earlier this month while entertaining guests at his Wynn Las Vegas casino, including Barbara Walters and screenwriters Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi. He created a hole the size of a silver dollar in the left forearm of Marie-Theresa Walter. "Oh shit, look what I've done," Wynn said, according to Ephron, who gave her account in a blog.
From cbc.ca
5 comments:
oh, shit, look what i've done, he said.
that's perfect. what else could you possibly say...?
You could say:
"Well there's 48.4 million dollars down the tube".
or
"Ahh, I never liked that painting anyway, Picasso is over-rated with his non-elbow-proof paintings".
or
"Bummer dude"
or
"Well at least it wasn't my Macri painting I wrecked"
or
"Look what you made me do"!
or how about: "Oh, shit-- not again!"
lol "...that's the third Picassu this week"
:0
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