$43 million painting - "Water Lilies"

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http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Work+from+Monets+Water+Lilies+series+sells+more+than+million+benefit/7524666/story.html

Must be better than "The Scream".

[masoncgy]

What's that saying?

I don't know much about art, but I know what I like... or something like that.

Yeah, this, I don't like. Ug-ly.

[Kloubek]

There aren't a lot of painting periods from over a century ago that people would consider beautiful today... especially those of impressionist style. It's a style which gets entirely lost on today's generations.

Art like this truly requires someone who appreciates who the painter was.

[OU812]

nickle content of the paint used?

[ExtraSlow]

I like a lot of impressionist works, but the water lillies never worked for me. Like Thomas Crowne, I prefer the haystacks

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Originally posted by OU812
nickle content of the paint used?

Could be pretty high, they might have even used unicorn tears

But I do know that the price of a single painting is getting much closer to the dollar value of every pure Canadian nickel ever made.

1922 to 1981, Canada made 1.9 billion 99.9% nickels ($95 million)

1935 to 1967 Canada also made about 60 million 80% silver dollars.

[Cos]

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[Sugarphreak]

Originally posted by Cos
I like art. I have a Son of Man by Magritte and I really want a starry night by van Gogh but I cant understand this stuff being worth hundreds of millions. Never made sense to me.

Things are only worth what people are willing to pay for them, the fact that people will pay that much for paintings like this, when the average person shakes their head, tells me they live extravagant and useless lives... almost makes you feel sorry for them.