[News] $400,000,000 for a Painting?

[The Clamp]

I'm not suggesting this is what's happened here but for many years now dodgy money has been put into arts and antiquities to launder the funds. This would be a very convenient method to launder several hundred million in one go. Have a few plants on the phone and in the room to drive the price up, swoop in with an offer that is highly unlikey to be topped, job done.

 

[Surf's Up]

I'm not suggesting this is what's happened here but for many years now dodgy money has been put into arts and antiquities to launder the funds. This would be a very convenient method to launder several hundred million in one go. Have a few plants on the phone and in the room to drive the price up, swoop in with an offer that is highly unlikey to be topped, job done.

.......and that is a very good summary of what appeared to happen!!

 

[Eric Potts]

At this point I believe the correct phrase is:-

'That looks like something my 3 year old brings home from preschool'.

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Not sure he’s got the optics right with that glass globe. I call fake.

 

[Taybha]

Kinel , Stokes has let himself go a bit .

 

[Wrong-Direction]

The reason things cost a lot of money is so the rich have things to buy, just because some tosser says something costs ****** doesn't mean shit, diamonds for example, just a shiny rock ain't it

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[cunning fergus]

That amount of money is not enough for two Neymars

If the reports are accurate, it’s not even enough money to release an Iranian woman with a British husband from an Iranian prison.

 

[larus]

And that was when $400m was a lot of money.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

At this point I believe the correct phrase is:-

'That looks like something my 3 year old brings home from preschool'.

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He looks half cut. And dosn't a view through an orb invert an image? Schurly the renowned mathematician and polymath, Leonardo, would know that?

Let's face it.....its a bloody fake, innit.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

At this point I believe the correct phrase is:-

'That looks like something my 3 year old brings home from preschool'.

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You know you want to really....

 

[essbee1]

You know you want to really....

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Ok - a spot the difference competition right? Here's my guess - are there less stripes on his tunic in the second one?

 

[B-right-on]

FFS. How many years with that keep a hospital or a school going??

Far East needs a lot more schools and Hospitals too. Not paintings of some bloke, half stoned, holding a ball of glass thats apparatly painted by some famous bloke or other - or might not have even been painted by him.

 

[5ways]

Hard to really price something like that because for the people bidding they will have billions. It is by one of the greatest minds to ever walk the earth, anything created by da Vinci is part of humanity's artistic and scientific heritage. it's just a shame it is not in public ownership on public display.

 

[Bold Seagull]

This time next year that will be the equivalent value of 4 bitcoins.

 

[kevo]

I've seen the painting in the flesh (so to speak) - at the da Vinci exhibition in London a few years ago. Know very little abouat art, but I thought it stood out from everything else I saw that day. If I'd known how much it was worth, I'd have walked out with it tucked under my arm!

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

FFS. How many years with that keep a hospital or a school going??

Far East needs a lot more schools and Hospitals too. Not paintings of some bloke, half stoned, holding a ball of glass thats apparatly painted by some famous bloke or other - or might not have even been painted by him.

Capital Gains Tax paid by the seller will fund them going for a while - unless tax evaded of course

 

[catfish]

But if you splashed out a bit you could have one Neymar hanging in the hall by the key hook and one on the upper landing. (IN DIFFERENT SHIRTS)

I wish people would think a bit.

I could splash out on Neymar if he played for us.

 

[essbee1]

I've seen the painting in the flesh (so to speak) - at the da Vinci exhibition in London a few years ago. Know very little abouat art, but I thought it stood out from everything else I saw that day. If I'd known how much it was worth, I'd have walked out with it tucked under my arm!

Easily done. Just a) take off gallery wall, b) walk out c) go to nearest art dealer and flog

 

[worthingseagull123]

Worth far more on paper than our squad, stadium and training ground

 

[scamander]

FFS. How many years with that keep a hospital or a school going??

Far East needs a lot more schools and Hospitals too. Not paintings of some bloke, half stoned, holding a ball of glass thats apparatly painted by some famous bloke or other - or might not have even been painted by him.

Thought the buyer has remained anonymous what I've heard (chaps on the radio) suggest it's a Middle East buyer, there's a Louvre in Dubai now so it could end up being located somewhere similar?

 

[marcos3263]

Yeah I got skillz