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80 Million Dollars worth of Picassos
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 1910
An electrician approaches the Picasso estate to validate a number of Picasso's artworks, given to him, he said, when he worked for Picasso during the 1970's. The collection is already appraised at 80 million dollars, many of the works are completely unknown.
The family argues theft, that there's no way that Picasso would have given these paintings to an electrician. SO begins what will probably be a long and drawn out legal battle, but the point of it is there's a eighty million dollar cache of art that was previously unknown. Which raises the question, how many other hidden and unknown caches of art are out there?
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com
VS Van Gogh
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 2505
Sometimes I goad myself into working by comparing my life, to date, with Van Goghs.
It's a reminder of how easy I really have it.
Van Gogh: Dead at 37.
Me: Alive at forty-odd.
Van Gogh: Candlelight & Gaslight. Painting mostly limited to daylight hours.
Me: Alive in the time of Electricity. Could paint 24/7 if I were so inclined...
Degenerate Nazi Hoard
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 1901
Berlin: "In January workers digging for a new subway station near City Hall unearthed a bronze bust of a woman, rusted, filthy and almost unrecognizable. It tumbled off the shovel of their front-loader. ...."
And so they continue to unearth a hoard of artworks thought destroyed during the Third Reich for being degenerate.
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/arts/design/01abroad.html?_r=2
The Watchmaker
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
- Hits: 1851
It's a vanishing art, this. I know, I've tried a few, most are clowns barely fit to change a battery, but he's different, his walls are lined with European & Swiss certifications, He's in his 60's and he's been doing this all his life, as has his father before him.
I've been coming here almost 20 years. He's the best watch repairman in Western Canada.
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