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more about #pablopicasso more comments → ellaesther: Wait, hold on, that's my daughter's name! Now I have to buy it for her! Shit, where's my checkbook? more » NefariousNewt: Also on sale today at Christie's, some water colors by some little-known Austrian artist named Hitler. more » swedishfishing: Holy shit. The cult of personality is kind of crazy, you know? Genius only goes so far. I guess it's neat though. more » laetitiae: 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 w... more » hatepaperdoll: 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 dun... more » Mary McCarthyite: With the money she gets, she can commission another painting: "La Fille de l'artiste a soixante-treize ans avec beaucoup d'argent" It will show her wi... more » stoprobbers: You know, at a certain age a portrait like that would be a major self esteem killer. Though, 20 years later, it would turn you richer beyond your wild... more » brinkswomanship: I bet the colours are even more amazing and vibrant in person. more » lilbobbytables: That is roughly $23,322,663.00. Yowzers. I felt like a madman spending $200.00 on a painting a few months ago. Balling out of control - I am doing it ... more » DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Man, what a jip! All MY dad ever did was take my photograph! (Oh yeah, and pay for my expensive education; house, clothe and feed me; love and care fo... more » BlondeGoddess: Can you believe it that Vogue at one time was one of the first magazines to publish photos of concentration camps? I love Lee Miller's work, I saw a b... more » Diziet_Sma: She was my first avatar when I signed up to Jez. I find it hard to think of a cooler human being who has ever walked the planet. Except for The Fonz, ... more » ritualtheory: After seeing her in "Blood of a Poet" (where it's obvious why the Perfect Muse title adhered to her), I read up on her relationship with Man Ray, for ... more » gobblegirl: I absolutely love Lee Miller's work. more » stacyinbean: This is useless but I had NO IDEA Conde Nast was ever an actual human. These (her) photographs (particularly the first and second) are breathtaking. more » -
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But, Doesn't She Want It?
"La Fille de l'artiste a deux ans et demi avec un bateau," Picasso's 1938 portrait of Maya, his daughter with Marie-Thérèse Walter, is expected to fetch up to £16 million at auction. [Telegraph] -
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Vogue Model/Photographer/Muse Suspected Of Spying In Wartime
Lee Miller — Surrealist muse, WWII photojournalist, Vogue staffer, gourmet cook — is pretty much the archetypal model-slash. But it was Miller's rumored communism that led the MI5 to spy on her for 20 years. More »
