U.S. casino magnate gives Picasso's dream the elbow
Wed Oct 18,
Picasso's famed "Dream" painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion dollar canvas an elbow.
Wynn had just finalized a $139 million sale to another collector of his painting, called "Le Reve" (The Dream), when he poked a finger-sized hole in the artwork while showing it to friends at his Las Vegas office a couple of weeks ago.
Director and screenwriter Nora Ephron, who witnessed and related the incident in her blog on the Huffington Post Web site (www.huffingtonpost.com), said Wynn had raised his hand to show the group something about Picasso's 1932 portrait of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter.
"At that moment, his elbow crashed backward right through the canvas. There was a terrible noise," Ephron wrote, noting that Wynn has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that damages peripheral vision. "Smack in the middle ... was a black hole the size of a silver dollar.
2006-10-18 07:40:58 · 13 answers · asked by Tagalon 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Did he do it intentionally?!. If he did that's just really sad...
2006-10-18 08:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by faithnack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The artist part of me says, "MAN! What a bummer!", though I do not like Picasso.
The human rights activist/teacher/stuggling parent says: SO WHAT?! It's a freaking painting. Some guy at Sotheby's or wherever decided what it was "worth"....I don't give a rat's a**!
The day I cry over losing that much money, rather than the plight of underfed, abused children, is the day I will take the "Long Swim to China". You artistic types can figure out who wrote THAT! DAMMIT!
I'm ready to puke.
P.S.: If you REALLY want to shed some dramatic tears over destroyed art, try thinking about the priceless artifacts from the Mesopotamian delta, destroyed during the first Iraq war, thanks to George Sr.! I don't even know what's left for the current batch of morons to destroy (morons being idiots w/guns on BOTH sides!).
2006-10-18 10:04:13 · answer #2 · answered by SieglindeDieNibelunge 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You left out the part about him releasing the buyer from the sale and deciding to keep the painting and have it repaired. Given that Steve Wynn is probably a multi-billionaire, the incident was probably akin to any of us breaking the arm off of our own nice Lladro figurine and super-gluing it back on.
2006-10-18 07:53:29 · answer #3 · answered by wwbrad90 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think Picasso had the Wynn knocked out of him
2006-10-18 07:50:43 · answer #4 · answered by Victor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a valuable original painting was more or less destroyed. There may be something that canbe done in the way of a repair but I doubt it would restore it to anywhere near its original value.
2006-10-18 17:05:14 · answer #5 · answered by Wylde Woman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't that just want to make you cry. Not that I am a Picasso friend but the money, holy smoke, he should have rather donated it to a food bank or charity. Now he's got a worthless painting.
2006-10-18 07:46:00 · answer #6 · answered by Mightymo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in case you advise what type of paintings do i like i might want to flow for the Surrealistic stream first and then the put up-surrealistic artists like R.Crumb, Joe Coleman and Robert Williams. In different artforms i like the images of Dian Arbus and the paintings installations of Robert Indiana
2016-12-04 23:22:59 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I OMG'd. Imagine how you'd feel after that! Imagine how many people would be so dissapointed and because of you!
I would just want to shrink down to nothing and dissapear. I wonder if he still has his sale....
2006-10-18 07:50:35 · answer #8 · answered by Nikki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once played darts against a painting looked better after it was peppered with holes
2006-10-19 06:02:33 · answer #9 · answered by wolfie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor man... ust lost a deal o $139 million!!! loooooooool!!!!!!! I would never imagine being in his shoes!!!!!
2006-10-18 09:20:06 · answer #10 · answered by lebanese_gentleman2005 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know that sinking feeling when you realize that the person you just slighted was the one you needed to be on your side...it was that feeling.
2006-10-18 07:43:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋