A guy named Pablo painted this stuff.............

You think Harold Newton's work is expensive ?

Like them or not, (I don't, which is totally irrelevant), Picasso's work is worth ridiculous numbers, often in the millions.

As an aside, things signed Picasso often show up on eBay, America's fence. They are never genuine. I'd give you some links to prove it, but just trust me.

If they were genuine, they wouldn't be on eBay, they'd go to Christie's or Sotheby's and get serious money realized.

Here's a yard sale story from AOL this morning.


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posted: 14 HOURS 18 MINUTES AGO

(Oct. 27) -- It may be the bargain of a lifetime. At a yard sale earlier this month, a woman from Shreveport, La., paid just $2 for a painting with a famous name on it: Picasso.
Tiesha McNeal told KSLA-TV that after she bought the painting, she saw that it bore the last name of the Spanish artist and she called the FBI.
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What drew McNeal to the work? "The colors, they're bright colors. It's kind of different. The way that the artist did it, it just kind of caught my eye," she said. "It looks like a woman, with a guitar or possibly a baby."
McNeal had a KSLA camera crew with her when she arrived at the home of the sellers, Edith and Jim Parker, to tell them how valuable the object might have been.
"It makes me sick that I sold it for $2," a shocked Edith Parker said.
Later, Parker told ABC News that she held the garage sale to help out the relatives of an elderly neighbor who had just died. The neighbor was an art collector, and Parker said she asked the relatives about the Picasso signature. They told her it was a fake, she said.
"I kept looking at this picture and said, 'Well it don't look like much,' and it was in this cheap little frame," Parker told ABC.
McNeal told KSLA that the FBI now has the painting. The bureau wouldn't comment on artwork's status to ABC or the local station. But ABC reported that the FBI said the painting is not on a national list of stolen art. And in an interview with KSLA, a local art professor expressed skepticism that the painting was genuine.
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2009-10-27 12:33:35

Make your own judgments, but what struck me about the many disturbing things in this story is how the media (ABC News) went right to the source to inform the seller and then (gleefully I'm sure) to wallow in the seller's possible misery.

If you get AOL you can see a video interview of the buyer, the sellers, and a local art expert.
I haven't figured out how to post videos on this blog yet.

Everyone on it seems a little goofy, but maybe that's just me being too judgmental.