Tuesday, May 04, 2004

This is probably the world's most expensive painting

Not that the expense matters in the least. I'm putting it up here because I think it's haunting and the boy is nice and has great legs and, by the looks of things, unless Pablo was exaggerating, a big package.

But Boy with a pipe, painted by Pable Picasso when the artist was 24 years old, is being auctioned soon and may very well fetch a whopping $70-100 million.

I couldn't pay that much for it, and I expect the starting bid to be well beyond a fiver, but who couldn't resist the temptation of having a boy with a great package and nice legs in their general vicinity? Apart from straight guys and lesbians?