…And here’s me conceding to the warnings that a career in the arts will amount to a lifetime of financial destitution.
How wrong was I!
This beautiful and historic piece was just sold at Christie’s Auction House in Rockefeller Centre for a cool 160 million.
For me this solidifies the importance of art in society for not only the aesthetic reasons, but for cultural identity and, how Marshall MacLuhan put it, to help us overcome our anxieties of modern culture and the abstraction of technology.
Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”). Oil on canvas. 44.7/8 x 57.5/8in. (114 x 146.4cm.) Painted on February 14, 1955. © 2015 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York