Would you pay $104M for this painting?
 

Sotherby just sold a Picasso painting for a record $104M beating out the previous record $82M for Van Gogh's Portrait of Doctor Gachet. I think I prefer the Van Gogh.

So, hypothetically say you inherited say $104M (US) but the catch is, you have to spend the money on art. Note I did not say “porn” I said art. What would you buy?

A collection of Jack Vettriano's better pieces, some Andy Warhol and some paintbrushes to make a few blobs and straight lines and then sell them as modern art.

Depends on if you are buying purely for an investment or because you love the work. I would enjoy taking that dough and collecting, supporting, enjoying the work of living artists. And part of the fun would be the looking.

Re: Would you pay $104M for this painting?
 

You're being awfully reductive in making porn and art mutually exclusive! :)

If it were enough money, I'd probably go for something by Raphael or Hieronymous Bosch. Oh or van Eyck. He's great.

I would buy 2,080,000 of those $50 landscape, flower, or fruit bowl paintings that are sold by starving artists. But I don't know where I would store them all.

I would exclusively purchase paintings on velvet. Many of children with oversized eyes. And clowns.

And that one with the bullfighter.

Can I buy a home in which to properly display the art as part of the deal, or do I have to endow museums with it?

What if I buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house ... that's art, right?

You're treading pretty close to Barnes Foundation territory there!

Anyway, didn't you forget the dogs playing poker?

I'd buy Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du Monde"

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/lan...es/courbet.jpg

It's in the Musee d'Orsay; it MUST be art.

Nevertheless, link probably not safe for work.

I'd buy the most expensive painting I could for 1.04mil, and then i'd sell it for $.9 million, write off my loss, and spend my post tax money on porn. just cuz you said i couldnt

And Elvis.:)

It may be unAmerican to say so, but, ummm .... I don't like Elvis.

At all.

you're right. it is unamerican. you're french now. I hope you're happy

Could I be German, please? I prefer beer to wine and eat runny cheese only under duress.

well, you'd have to endure a lot of lame saurkraut jokes from sycamore, but if you insist....

Not necessarily. I try to make my humor and remarks fit the individual when time and opportunity allow it.

So, let's let Wolf make some more remarks that will finally get her locked up, and you focus on selling what's left of your soul, okay?