Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
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#0Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Posted: 10/18/06 at 5:57pm
LAS Vegas gaming tycoon Steve Wynn, proudly showing to friends a Picasso he had just sold for $139 million, accidentally poked his elbow through the canvas, according to a witness.
"There was a terrible noise," wrote author Nora Ephron on the blog The Huffington Post, who saw the accident several weeks ago at Mr Wynn's office in his hotel-casino Wynn in Las Vegas.
"Oh sh*t," she quoted him as saying. "Look what I've done ... thank God it was me."
The night before the accident, Ms Ephron recounted, she and her husband were dining at a restaurant at The Wynn when the billionaire stopped by their table and told them of the painting's sale.
"Wynn was in a very good mood because, he told us, he had just sold a Picasso for $139 million," she wrote.
"This is the most money ever paid for a painting," she quoted Mr Wynn as saying, and noted that it topped by $4 million the record price paid for a Klimt by cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder this year.
Oops!
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 5:59pm
that brightened by day.
if only because of the sheer siliness of it all!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2re: Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:00pmBarbara Walters was telling this story today on The View. I thought she was making out like it wasn't supposed to get into the news. Leave it to Nora Ephron to blab it all over the place.
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:02pmI'm sure with a little glue and paint, no one will know the difference.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#4re: Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:03pmYes he has all that money but I feel for the guy as I believe he has macular degeneration & is slowly losing his sight
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:03pmespecially in the US.......
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:28pm
This is it. Interesting tilt of the head I must say.
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:32pmI got the blue question mark, but I know the painting. It's gorgeous-one of my favorite Picassos.
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:34pmHe was in a class of his own.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9re: Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:21pmAnd this was supposed to be a painting of his mistress. I wonder what she really looked like.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:23pm
Give me Dogs Playing Poker anytime
Never a fan of this type of art
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 10:39pmI'm with you Jane - I love Picasso and this is one of my favorites. And you're right Mr. Roxy - he has no lateral vision and he can only see when he's looking directly at something. Walters said that he turned to point out something to them in the painting and his elbow hit the painting and punched into it. He couldn't have known how close he was to it when he made the turn. It really is very sad.
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erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#12re: Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Posted: 10/18/06 at 10:53pmThat's awful! I hope they can find someone to restore it. (I'm fairly sure they'll be able to...there are some real geniuses out there for this sort of thing.)
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 10:53pmI didn't realize the canvas could be so fragile though.
#14re: Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Posted: 10/18/06 at 11:05pm
it'll definitely be restored and the damage won't be apparent. However, the painting is no longer in perfect condition. I think the universe was trying to tell him to keep this one!
Dottie-I agree-I've never heard of a canvas being torn by an elbow. I don't understand it. Picasso's canvasses are not ancient enough to be so fragile.
Mamie-I do love this one for its simplicity and grace.
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 11:15pm
Leave it to Nora Ephron to blab it all over the place.
Um, Goth. Nora only "blabbed" it after an article appeared in The New Yorker.
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#16re: Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Posted: 10/18/06 at 11:21pm
I assumed he fell into the painting, elbow-first... I'll go read the actual article now, I guess. :-P
Updated On: 10/18/06 at 11:21 PM
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Posted: 10/18/06 at 11:24pmI love when Edith posts.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#18re: Oops....$139 Million down the terlet
Posted: 10/18/06 at 11:27pmOn The View, they put a slide of the painting behind them on the big video screen as they discussed the incident. And I SO wished it was a call-in show, oh wait, I just watched it on my DVR, anyway, if it were a call in show and I had been watching it live I would have called in and said, "You know, the woman in the painting is masturbating. The six fingers represent motion. The head is lolling because she's orgasmic." It's like the Shortbus of Picasso paintings shown on The View.
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