"Piaf's entourage -- including other lovers (...) also figure prominently in the collection." which prompts the following question: anything about her great love of her life Marcel Cerdan?
It's a pity that these sorts of letter collections are increasingly a thing of the past. "55 print-outs of tweets, emails, & texts between Famous Person A and Famous Person B are going up for auction" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I prayed in church that if you came to me, I would never again touch another glass of alcohol.
I think we all try these sorts of deals & bargaining tactics with God at some point in our lives. I did it as a tween, but I always suspected that God's stance on this was similar to the US Government's official policy towards terrorists - he doesn't negotiate with sinners.
@Your Screenplay Sucks: Isn't it though? I like to try to write letters just the same, but with the ease of the phone and internet, they're always made moot before I can even finish them. Oh well, I'll keep trying.
This is the sort of thing that makes me sad that people no longer seem to write handwritten letters. They're so wonderful, and such-- good glimpses of relationship. Email and IM are not going to be decent substitutes for future generations to learn what it was like to live now :-/
@Fridge Hussy : She's so cold! I'll just bet she has her per...: She's long dead and had no children to offend. I think Edith would be flattered that people were still interested in her so many years after her demise. Besides, that's the risk you take when you give your current sweetheart love letters, racy images etc.They might end up haunting you. At least she had more taste than to send her one time lover a sex tape.
@Stabby McStabberson: Oh for sure. I just don't know if it's $32-million-well-deserved. It's the reputation they're buying, not the art. Which is fascinating to think about, but weird as well. It's clear that the reputation is deserved, I think, but Picasso as an idea is so much bigger than his art, which is kind of neat/weird/interesting
@swedishfishing: That is a fascinating idea, actually. What is the value of reputation/Artist as Idea, and how does it in turn serve the person who paid $32 million to get it, via a painting?
@Stabby McStabberson: Well, you know, we purchase something because it serves us in some way. A hat that keeps us warm or makes us fetching, a book that entertains or gets us through that class, a car that brings us places or gets us the looks we want on the street. Art is presumably purchased to serve the spirit, or decorate a space, or... in this case, it quite possibly serves some other need, and that's my question. What need is served when you buy the actual thing, for $32 million dollars, but what you're really buying is the man's name, or (as swedishfishing pointed out) the "idea" of Picasso? If that makes sense.
@swedishfishing: I was just talking about a similar thing regarding the writings of Abraham Lincoln. I can read the text almost anywhere on earth, and probably more clearly, but I can't tell you how thrilling it would be for me to hold the piece of paper on which he wrote the words and read them in his hand. It's something well beyond the thoughts he expressed, and I'm kind of getting goosebumps just thinking about it!
I often teach Nietzsche and use Picasso as an example of an ubermensch, not in life in general but in painting. He had mastered the classical styles when he was a teenager/in his early days and then he deliberately broke the rules. And when I look at paintings like this, it makes me so happy that the rules were broken and a new set of aesthetic values were created. Because this portrait? This portrait is just beautiful.
@laetitiae: Yeah, it kinda drives me nuts when my dad (the same one mentioned above) makes comments like. "Ugh, his early stuff is nice, why did he have to go an make that crazy crap."
Well, pops did pay for my degree in Art, and entertains my protests at such statements. Yet, he refused to go to the Picasso museum after my urging.
That picture is terrible. I know a guy down by the mall who can do your exact likeness in charcoal in like, 5 minutes, plus he can do you riding a dune buggy.
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I prayed in church that if you came to me, I would never again touch another glass of alcohol.
I think we all try these sorts of deals & bargaining tactics with God at some point in our lives. I did it as a tween, but I always suspected that God's stance on this was similar to the US Government's official policy towards terrorists - he doesn't negotiate with sinners.
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Now what are you doing here? Go be outside in the sun, crazyface!
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@swedishfishing: I was just talking about a similar thing regarding the writings of Abraham Lincoln. I can read the text almost anywhere on earth, and probably more clearly, but I can't tell you how thrilling it would be for me to hold the piece of paper on which he wrote the words and read them in his hand. It's something well beyond the thoughts he expressed, and I'm kind of getting goosebumps just thinking about it!
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Well, pops did pay for my degree in Art, and entertains my protests at such statements. Yet, he refused to go to the Picasso museum after my urging.
He has no appreciation for the "Modern" art.
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It will show her with a huge smile on her face, swimming in money (like the character did at the beginning of Duck Tales).
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Though, 20 years later, it would turn you richer beyond your wildest dreams. Fair trade-off?
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Balling out of control - I am doing it wrong.