Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Picasso's "Absinthe Drinker" (1903)


A.k.a. “Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto”-- sounds like Christie's can sell it. From The New York Times:

A federal judge refused yesterday to bar Christie’s in New York from auctioning a painting by Picasso that a German banker’s heir says was sold under duress in Nazi Germany.
Hmmm... would nullifying that pre-war sale be a precedent for judging other dubious sales throughout history? What about treaties?