the AVATARS question – is it time to ban the ugly ones????

I know where he is and I know I left him with a smile on his face. Just saying . . . or, maybe just bragging! :p
 
$30,000 - $40,000 per square inch?

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Baigneuse

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Lot 20 / Sale 5465

Estimate £12,000,000 - £18,000,000
($18,648,000 - $27,972,000)

Sale Information Sale 5465
Impressionist/Modern Art Evening Sale
20 June 2012
London, King Street

Lot Description Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Baigneuse
signed and dated 'Renoir.88.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
26 x 21½ in. (66 x 54.6 cm.)
Painted in 1888


Special Notice VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

Pre-Lot Text THE PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTOR
 
[size=+3]No hair?[/size]

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freddie after shaving???

Ohhh myyyy gaaaawwwwd!!!! You shaved freddies balls and pubes after he died, didn’t you? As he lay on the mortuary table. You didn’t do anything else to him before you put him and his stories in the crematoria furnace did you?

That's not Freddie :D , either.

I'd recognize him anywhere and that one is waaaayy too small to be Freddie :D
 
It's obviously an amateur self-protrait of someone. I'd say it was probably the first photo Scouries hasn't stolen and posted to the forum. That he took it himself--of himself.
 
Oh gawd! I see the evil one, that spawn of satan, ace aka lloyd5, has visited us.

Begone! Or I will set our leader on you...

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the saintly one sends the pilot back to his hell...
 
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Back? This thread is hell. :D

(I notice you didn't deny that was a self-photo.)
 
For any Newbie reading this thread, let me tell you who scouriesworld is:

Jacqui O. Is scouries propaganda alt. She is used to keep the number of post scouries seems to make low and to spread his lies and false information.
President, A.I.R. Since there is no such thing as A.I.R. except in scouries head, how can anyone be president besides him?
Secretery of the MOST COMMENTED on It seems she is a secretery that can't spell secretary.
and the MOST VOTED on story clubs There is no such thing as a most voted on or most commented on story club. These are fake lists scouries made up to associate his name and crappy writing with the real writers on this site.
ScouriesWorld, This is a fantasy land that scouries made up and lives in.
Miami Beach, Florida According to all his ISP addresses, scouries lives in the south of England. Just another lie among the thousands he tell everyone.
 
June 20, 2012, source: Christie's / Sotheby's

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The £23,6 million paid at Sotheby's for Joan Miró’s 1927 modern masterpiece "Peinture (Étoile Bleue)" is not only a record for the artist, but also the highest price for a work of art sold in London thus far this year. Miró’s painting was the top lot in a sale which realised £75,046,850 / $117,680,965 / € 93,200,835 (est. £73- £102.6m / $114.4 -160.9m / € 90.5-127.3m).

"Peinture (Étoile Bleue)" belongs to the artist’s seminal ‘dream paintings’ cycle. According to Helena Newman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department, Europe, the work “is one of Miró’s most important paintings, effortlessly bridging the transition between figurative and abstract art".

Also at Sotheby's, Pablo Picasso’s monumental late portrait "Homme assis", executed in 1972, a year before his death, realised £6,201,250/ $9,724,180/ €7,701,345.

The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale at Christie's started with the shocking news that Renoir's "Baigneuse" (which carried a pre-sale estimate of £12 million to £18 million) had been sold privately before the sale. With the Renoir out, Pablo Picasso was the star of the sale. His "Femme assise" (which could be a good companion to the "Homme assis" sold at Sotheby's) sold for £8,553,250 ($13,402,943), and "Femme au chien" sold for £6,985,250 ($10,945,887)

Paul Signac's "La Corne d'Or, les minarets" sold for £6,201,250 ($9,717,359), well above its high estimate. "Paysage aux troncs bleus", a simple but very beautiful Tahitian scene by Paul Gauguin, sold for £4,521,250 ($7,084,799). "Cheval au galop sur le pied droit", a sculpture by Edgar Degas, sold for £2,617,250 ($4,101,231) against an estimate of just £300,000 - £400,000 ($470,100 - $626,800). £The auction totalled 92,366,300
 
Okay yes the royalties are providing a pretty nice standard of living but maybe, just maybe I should turn my talents to painting...

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NEW YORK (AFP).- A seminal work by abstract artist Mark Rothko fetched a huge $75.1 million at Sotheby's Tuesday, while a new record was set for a Jackson Pollock drip painting as the big spenders came out in force.

"No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)" is seen by critics as one of the finest examples of Rothko's characteristic style -- a seemingly simple, but arresting juxtaposition of blocks of color.

The winning bid, reached after a prolonged bidding battle in New York, was short of the record $86.9 million paid for Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" at Christie's in May. But it was far over the pre-sale $35-50 million estimate and highlighted a contemporary art auction full of big prizes.

The work described by Sotheby's as Rothko's "seminal, large-scale masterpiece" was selected by the artist for his landmark 1954 solo show at the Art Institute of Chicago and had been in the same collection for 30 years before coming to market.

The heated auction also saw Jackson Pollock's "Number 4, 1951," estimated at $25-35 million, sell for $40.4 million, easily breaking the previous $23 million record for works by the abstract expressionist.

Francis Bacon brought it home with his dark "Pope" fetching $29.8 million, well past the $18-25 million estimate. The Irish-born British painter's "Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne" got $9.3 million, inside the low end of the estimate.

In other action, Gerhard Richter's "Abstraktes Bild" sold for $17.4 million, and Willem de Kooning's "Abstraction" sold for $19.7 million, compared to the pre-sale estimates of $15-20 million.

The always bankable Andy Warhol had a strong showing with "Green Disaster (Green Disaster Twice)," selling for $15.2 million, and $9.3 million for the Pop king's "The Kiss (Bela Lugosi)."

Warhol's "Suicide," estimated to sell for between $6-8 million, ended up at $16.3 million.

It was even an auction for some of the supposedly smaller fry to shine.

"Ohne Titel (Silverbild)," a stormy looking canvas done in silver, silver nitrate, silver oxide and resin by German artist Sigmar Polke, was estimated to go for between $800,000 and $1.2 million.

Final price? A whopping $4.1 million.

The roaring sale of contemporary art was in stark contrast to quiet sales of impressionist works at auctions in New York last week. On Wednesday, Christie's New York holds its contemporary sale.
 
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French Minister for Culture and Communication Aurelie Filippetti poses in front of an exact replica of the Lascaux paintings as she visits an exhibition in Bordeaux on November 15, 2012 on the 50th anniversary of late Culture minister Andre Malraux’s law on Preservation of Historical Areas


Why the heck can't we get a few babes like this in our Cabinet?
 
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