Andrew Lloyd Webber Sells Rare Picasso For Charity

If you have $60.9 million, it can be all yours!

Musicman Andrew Lloyd Webber has decided to auction off a piece of rare art to benefit his arts and culture foundation.

The rare Pablo Picasso piece comes from the artist's blue period and is considered the most highly estimated work of art to be offered at the Christie's auction in June. The painting was completed in 1903 and is titled Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker).

The auctioneers estimate that the piece will go for as much as 40 million pounds ($60.9 million)!

Damn!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: andrew lloyd webber, art

Posted: Mar 17, 2010 at 8:07 pm / Email this »

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17 comments to “Andrew Lloyd Webber Sells Rare Picasso For Charity”

blacklily.of.the.valley says – reply to this

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I watched a doco on Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's private art collection…mein gott…in a word magnificent
Elefantman says – reply to this

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jeezuz!!! No one has anything to say about this painting! Its a fuckin PICASSO! I want it! I think it looks so so cool I just may have it tattoed.
Reginald Perrin says – reply to this

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Andrew Lloyd Webber seems really friendly and down to earth, not at all what I'd perceived before I saw him interviewed.
Blueskies18 says – reply to this

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I just don't get why art is so damn expensive.
TRUTH-TELLER says – reply to this

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that money could go to Haiti
SirTommyChadwick says – reply to this

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Very cool painting.
caroaber says – reply to this

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Yeah, absinthe can make your face look like that…
eli_la_unica says – reply to this

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the guy being painted is like…"you caught me !!!" ," F$ck it !" " Paint mE!"
Spooge says – reply to this

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For that piece of crap?
Art lovers are majorly mentally screwed in the head. What a waste of money.
Hannigs says – reply to this

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you ignorant bastard Perez, its BARON lloyd-Webber, he has a life peerage. give the man the respect her deserves and bother to learn his title.
pat mgroin says – reply to this

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..it looks like sylvester stallone..
pat mgroin says – reply to this

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..looks like sylvester stallone..
Greatdane/ says – reply to this

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If I had the money, I would (and it would go to charity)

It's a Picasso!! I would love to own a Picasso.
SummerBerry1967 says – reply to this

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Charity or not, that is when you know you have wayyyyyyyy to much money
Dynadin says – reply to this

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That painting is a piece of history (regardless what you think of it). It should be in a museum. It's a historical document!
SMILE! You're on Candid Camera! says – reply to this

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Hm. We're studying Art History and I must say this piece is much different than Picasso's usual Cubist works. "Blue period", you say? I shall look that up. Sounds like a familiar period I've heard about.

Cool, the money will help charity.
SMILE! You're on Candid Camera! says – reply to this

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It's a nice painting.