This week is employee appreciation week and thus far we have gotten some pretty shoddy food items but this morning we scored some good donuts. Which is handy because I think I have post-PMS PMS…is that possible? I am moody and have eaten every greasy, fatty thing I can get my hands on. Maybe it’s post half-marathon “what do I do with my time” syndrome. I know…I will eat.
I heard about this $95.2 million painting this morning and it made me wonder…how do you think Pablo would feel about that? Would he think it was money well spent or completely ridiculous? I know all artists want to make a decent living but would most artists (creating for the sake of creating) feel comfortable with their works being valued so highly monetarily. As I was pondering this I did realize one type of “artist” that would take the money and run…starchitects…those artists make some serious cash.
Then I started thinking about the positive impact $95.2 million could have on the world…and then I stopped myself. Why think about hunger, illness, education when we can look at a pretty painting.
And lastly the article mentions Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO of Tyco who owned a Monet and Renoir – I would like to point out that E worked for Tyco for about five years and never made enough to buy a Monet on his $9/hour salary but he did run a very good mailroom.
NEW YORK - A portrait by Pablo Picasso of the woman who influenced him in the late 1930s and early 1940s sold for $95.2 million, the second-highest amount ever paid for a painting at auction, the auction house Sotheby's said.
"Dora Maar au chat," which depicts Picasso's mistress, went to an anonymous buyer in the room who was competing with telephone bidders during Wednesday's auction.
Its selling price ranked second only to another Picasso piece, "Garcon a la pipe," which sold at Sotheby's for more than $104 million in May 2004, the auction house said.
Also sold were paintings by Monet and Renoir that once hung in a lavish Fifth Avenue apartment used by former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski.
The two paintings, Monet's "Pres Monte Carlo" and Renoir's "Fleurs et Fruits," were among items from the apartment listed in documents filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, where Kozlowski was convicted last year of grand larceny and other charges.
"Pres Monte Carlo," an Impressionist landscape of sea, sky and lush greenery, went to an anonymous buyer for about $5.1 million, Sotheby's said.
"Fleurs et Fruits," a still life of peaches and other fruits arranged around a blue vase holding bright orange flowers, fetched $2.8 million. A Sotheby's spokeswoman said no buyer information for the piece was available.
Prosecutors said it was unclear to them whether the canvases were owned by Tyco International Ltd. or Kozlowski. Any money that is due Kozlowski would almost certainly be used to pay fines, restitution and possible civil judgments, they said.
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