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Thursday, 2 March 2023

Reasons to be joyful

  


Pablo Picasso's 'joyful' portrait of daughter sells for £18m at Sotheby's

Maya Ruiz-Picasso was born on 5 September 1935 in secrecy to Pablo Picasso’s mistress and greatest love Marie-Thérèse Walter, while the artist was still married to his first wife, former ballerina Olga Khokhlova. Picasso's portrait of her was once owned by Gianni Versace.

I'm not a connoisseur, but getting rid of the thing by selling it for £18m has to be a reason to be joyful. 

8 comments:

  1. Amateurish flash photography. He hasn't even eliminated the red-eye.

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  2. Selling is good. Compare to our shopping experience today.

    Boots: yes we sell the two things you want but we don't stock them so you should go online to order them then collect them from here.
    B&M: no, sold out.
    Go Outdoor: we don't measure feet anymore because Covid.

    And we are told to move heaven and earth to protect bricks-and-mortar retail. Do these bloody people have a death wish?

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  3. Don't fancy yours much...

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  4. Sam - I think he may have tried to eliminate the red-eye with an airbrush technique. Not a great success.

    dearieme - not long ago we encountered an old chap storming out of our local Boots saying "This is the worst shop in Derbyshire." I don't know how they keep going.

    Bucko - remember, she can give two blokes the eye at the same time.

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  5. As the artist here, I definitely think it has something. Unusual for Picasso.

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  6. Tammly - even I see something in it, but without the Picasso brand I probably wouldn't.

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  7. "Boots: yes we sell the two things you want but we don't stock them so you should go online to order them then collect them from here."

    So this evening I did go online. They are out of stock.

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  8. dearieme - this week I had a similar experience with Halfords. Went to Halfords online, typed in our car registration and and there it was - the correct wing mirror glass for our car. Unfortunately they don't have it in stock anywhere.

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