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Roll on the ebay fee's

That's more like my usual area, but not at that price. If that was real it would be sold through a dealer. Assuming it is real the price is probably (generously) five times what it should be. The best person to sell it to would be the owner of the original but the provenance isn't good enough as it stands.

...out of my league at even a fifth of the price ;D

Am I pleased I read this before pressing Buy it Now

If the seller sold the picasso at Sotheby's or some other auction house , wouldn't it cost more in fees than to sell on ebay , i would of thought it would of been less to sell on ebay

Sell it to Thomas Crown

IT WASNT BONGO

BONGO HAS ALIBI

BONGO HAS WITNESS


BONGO WAS WATCHING QVC ALL NIGHT AND HAS BOX OF EGYPTIAN COTTON TOWELS ( 5 PIECES INCLUDING FREE BATH SHEET ) BONGO PURCHASED AS EVIDENCE OF BONGOS STAYING IN

COPPERS NEVER TAKE BONGO ALIVE

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Cash must be dropped from Battersea bridge into a passing speedboat. 5 minutes after that, painting will be thrown in your general direction from passing car.

www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jan/27/picasso-guernica-whitechapel-art

Jonathan Jones The Guardian, Tuesday 27 January 2009

On 26 April 1937 the Condor Legion of the German Luftwaffe, sent by Adolf Hitler to aid Franco's rightwing nationalists in the Spanish civil war, bombed the Basque capital Guernica on market day, killing 1,654 people. Pablo Picasso, 55 years old and at that moment the world's most infamous modern artist, immediately set out to protest against this crime with a huge history painting he took just a month to execute.

So much is well known. What is less well known is that soon after it was unveiled in Paris in 1937, Guernica came to Britain where it stirred controversy, aroused compassion and showed London's East End what it would soon experience at the hands of the Luftwaffe. Now it is coming back. The full-size tapestry replica that hangs in the UN building in New York will be shown in the spring at London's Whitechapel Gallery, in commemoration of the painting's visit there 70 years ago.

Guernica arrived in Britain in autumn 1938, just as Neville Chamberlain claimed to have won Hitler's promise of "peace in our time". The artist Roland Penrose, one of the committee who brought it over, had worried that war might be too imminent for the painting to travel - Picasso insisted it must. It went on view at the New Burlington Galleries in the West End on 4 October 1938. As it happened, there was a rival exhibition next door of a conservative Spanish painting of the Siege of Toledo, a Francoist rallying cry. No one went to see that. They went to see Guernica.

Next it went to the Whitechapel because the socialist and anarchist supporters of Republican Spain who organised Guernica's British tour believed it must be seen by working-class Londoners. Thousands of local people came to see it, each leaving a pair of boots for the Spanish war effort as payment. Yet this prophetic masterpiece was attacked by the Stalinist left for its lack of feelgood spirit. A more enlightened critic replied that Picasso had painted a "modern Calvary".

If Guernica has ever seemed to world-weary cynics to be a dated humanist piety, it has come into its own again in this decade. During the Iraq war, US peace campaigners could not find a more effective image than Picasso's to put on billboards. It returns to Whitechapel in the wake of scenes that prove this century has a lot to learn from it about the inhumanity of bombing civilians. Guernica's bare lightbulb has never cast a more necessary light.

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He was awesome!

Went to his museum in Barcelona last summer for a mooch around: very interesting stuff. I definitely recommend it if anyone's ever down that way.

You basically walk through a timeline of his art: starting off very "fine art" and traditionally and gradually getting more and more trippy til you get to the final room. You can see by this point he can virtually put a thousand words into a very minimal ammount of brushstrokes. very very interesting!

I guess a lot of his work survives because he was very famous in his own lifetime, as such it is not unusual to find many sketches and preperatory paintings that result in the final piece on display, I hope thats what you mean?

But he was a master at painting, ceramics, sculpting. He could and did paint landscapes, portraits, realist, abstract......I can't believe you would actually find him repetitive?

On reflection, maybe he was a little bit repetitive

I'm with you guys, i think if you look at his full body of work its an amazing journey to where he eventually got to. I think the mark of a good artist is that they can view the same thing that everyone else sees but put their own inimitable spin on it so well and so consistently. You can tell a picasso without even seeing the signature which says a lot about his style.

There's some incredible pieces that i've seen of his. The sad part is that a lot of them are held in private collections and never see the light of day.