Here she is . . . 
I ādoā art, have a fair bit of street stuff (banksy etc), but I canāt stand Monet or a lot of the old school. Wishywashy pastel colours ugh.
Ā£41 mill eh, how the other half live
Iāve got little time for late period Monet. I mean, thereās no mysterious arty reason why he painted blurry water lillies: he was going blind, it was hard to get about, and so he painted blurry pictures of his own garden.
I have seen a couple of pics from that period stunningly presented in a purpose built gallery, but to be fair a lot of the effect there came from the architecture ( http://www.chichu.jp/e/works/ - a truly amazing place).
But since it sold for Ā£41m, I guess thatās what itās āworthā (although I thought City bonuses were supposed to be going down)
I like the Poppy Field, but being an impressionist he painted what he thought he saw/wanted to see not necessarily what he saw, which is interesting if you think like he did but I prefer art that is painful, or emotive. This is a bit weak.
Poppy Field:
hhhhmmmmmmm
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YYYYYyyeeess
Painting by numbers, no 43, of the late 1970ās. A very fine example
Personally Iām a bit partial to a bit of Rothko like āWhite Centerā (below) a sizeable purchase at $72.84 million.
A big favourite is the āScreaming Popeā by Francis Bacon - at a more affordable Ā£5 million.
Hereās my favourite Monetā¦
SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE AT DUSK
And all worth, ahem, every penny no doubt.
shando
If I start saving now Iāll be in a position to consider whether itās worth Ā£41m in about a thousand years time. :ermm:
IMO itās not right.
Itās fuggin disgusting. A bit like London property prices!
IMO the only problem is if the works are then taken out of public access.
On the one hand, if I buy a painting that expensive, Iāll be happy to let a gallery have it, because they will pay the insurance.
On the other hand, at those prices, galleries will not be able to afford to show such āvaluableā paintings. They may be the same canvases as they were two days ago, but any gallery holding Monets will now have to up its insurance cover by a fair amount because this sale has set another benchmark.
But, at the end of the day, itās the capitalism that we know and love. It just seems shocking because of the size of numbers involved.
Show me the Monet (apologies, but I felt someone had to do it):
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āFlying Lizardsā I think, āJust give me Monet, thatās what I wantā.
Thatās got that out of the way, thank goodness.
Art is worth exactly what it sells for at that time, just like anything else. I have friends with million quid houses that I wouldnāt buy for half that for, even if I could afford that.
Whether you like it or not doesnāt matter. Itās not your money.