THE GRIEF OF PAINTING

A few weeks ago, I offered to help a girl friend of mine to pick up a very large and heavy painting from her home and take it to a gallery as a consignment for sale. While I was trying to pack it with bubble wrap, the frame tilted a bit, hit an armchair and suffered a slight rip of the canvas. The restoration of the artwork cost me close to a thousand dollars.  The moral of the story? 

Never try to pick up a heavy framed painting by yourself and NEVER try to impress a girl friend!

In The Spirit Of Banksy's Stunt...

THE JOY OF PAINTING!

Leonardo Da Vinci's "SALVATOR MUNDI" sold at auction!

After 19 minutes of dueling, with four bidders on the telephone and one in the room, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” sold on Wednesday night for $450.3 million with fees, shattering the high for any work of art sold at auction. It far surpassed Picasso’s “Women of Algiers,” which fetched $179.4 million at Christie’s in May 2015. The buyer was not immediately disclosed.