Your 44million evaluation was 9 years old, the most recent price it sold for (3 years ago) at Christies was $103 million. Not a bad returnPicasso, Femme Assise Pres d'une Fenetre 1932. Sold for over 44 million, but I feel is a bit of a fail. It seems to try and combine and resolve his curves of this period with the geometric vertical and horizonal line ups of Mondrian. Instead of a dynamic contrast, I think it just comes off as awkward.
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There are some paintings in our past we'd like to remove from history. "Oh God not that thing" If this Balthus painting was created by myself, I'd have liked to redo it in this fashion.
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I'm imagining the model's hair is semi wet, so to keep in theme I'd have added a wrapped bath towel.
The Picasso is the least poorly wrought, in my opinion. It isn't much different stylistically than his other work of that period - it just looks like he abandoned it. All the initial sketch lines are visible, and there's no bold color buildup.
The van Gogh is so ghastly that it doesn't even look real.![]()
I haven't had a negative reaction to anything by Vincent until my eyes fell on this. A perverse kind of Tom Sawyer vibe that looks like something from the Theater of the Grotesque.I'm one of those weirdoes who like Van Gogh's early, "dark" work much more than the stuff he eventually became famous for. The more one reads up about him, the more clear it becomes that he suffered from very severe mental illness, and alas, it increasingly influenced his work.