I personally have always found his work slutty and messy, as I believe he was.

Another disgusting example of how much money the rich have stolen or scammed
from working people. If there were a toilet paper made from sanitized $100 bills
there would be a market for it.

Prices like this are the result of the branding and status seeking among the elite.
Sure, it’s a fine example of Picasso’s blue period, but today it’s clear that most of
those paintings were derivative of the impressionists, especially Van Gogh.

So at the end of the day, what you’re really buying is a share of Picasso stock. The
work itself is almost irrelevant.

It would look good in my bathroom.

Good book on Picasso by John Berger, “The Success and Failure of Picasso”.  Berger is a leftist, an art critic and writer of fiction.  One thing that I have remember from the book, over several decades, is that Picasso traded a painting for his home in South France.

Picasso’s great masterpiece was his celebrity status, which is now self-replicating.  This is most unfortunate because it brings us face to face all too often with, first, the works, which are not all that exceptional, and second, with slavering, panting celebrity-worshipers who think that dollars represent artistic value or experience.  And so one more reason has appeared to avoid what’s left of the mass media.