Picture Postcard
Had Vincent Van Gogh painted a couple more Irises in his famously expensive painting (sold at auction for $49 million in 1987) would it have been worth more? What about a bigger vase?
Would Pablo Picassos Garçon à la pipe, the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, be worth more than the $104.1 million it went for had the young smoker been puffing on an entire pack of fags, rather than just a slim pipe?
And imagine what JMW Turners Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne, Sunrise would have gone for had it been bigger.
The Mail says the painting has sold for more than £5.8million at Christies in London. This is a record for a British watercolour. It also means the picture is worth £64,000 per square inch.
As the paper tells us, the work measures just 11¾in by 7¾in.
The 1842 painting is small. But Noel Annesley, a director at Christies, wants us to look at its details. Never mind the length, get a load of that texture. He says it shows technique of almost unimaginable subtlety.
Indeed, it is a nice little picture. But does it come in a large?
Posted: 6th, June 2006 | In: Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
