Salvador Dali

Don, I'm not certain if this link will work, and if it doesn't, simply go to google; click on images and perhaps you can find the Dali that you want to view:

http://images.google.com/images?q=Salvadore+Dali&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

Nice try Letty but the pic I want to see isn't among that bunch, all I know is that it is a man either smoking or just holding a pipe, and it sold for an ungodly amount of $$$$$

Don - it's probably this one but we are far from 100 M $.

Thanks for the try Francis but that's not the one, this painting is of a man holding a pipe, and it sold I believe for 104 million dollars US

This is it

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/ArtMarket/NYT-PicassoPaintingSetsRecordforAuctionSale-5-7-04.html

Don - Usually Dali doesn't sell at that price.

But I found that the Picasso hereafter was sold to an American, last May, for 104 M$.

Don, I didn't see Dali in that link that you gave. Were you confused or was I. Frankly, I classify Dali right up there with DuChamp.

Francis, that painting of Picasso's makes sense.<smile>Lovely!

Letty the painting is only a small pic shown just behind the auctioneer.

Sotheby's certainly know how to charge don't they? $12 million dollars commission for selling one painting. Nice work if you can get it.

Ok, thanks, Don. Didn't I read somewhere that Sotheby's had sold forgeries before? What's the other big auction house? Christie's, I think.

Frankly, I don't care for Dali nor DuChamp either, but I'm certainly no critic.

Letty we have criminals just like the USA does and many are violent despicable people just like your gangsters, but now and then we get real gentlemanly crooks like Eric Hebborn who was an art forger of such truly phenomenal skill that he fooled the art world literally world wide, his forgeries hang in all the premier art galleries of the world and have been accepted as genuine by the worlds highest regarded experts.

Sotheby's were fooled and so were the other major players like Christies.

Mr hebborn made those hoity toity s.o.b.s look like s*** heads and he didn't even punch anyone on the nose.

Well not physically anyway. I love it.

Heh! Heh! Well, Don. What was that nursery rhyme about the cooked man?<smile>

Hmmm. Trying now to remember the man who fooled Hitler with his forged paintings. I think he was referred to as the great imitator, but Hebborn doesn't sound right, so I'm certain it wasn't that guy.

Sheeeze, you just renewed an interest in research.

Personally, I don't see how Dali would bring in even a tin-penny. He's part of the cesspool of modern "culture." Pass the Pepto-Bismol.

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If you think that by Dali is a piecce of crap how about this from Van Gogh, this looks like it was painted by an eight year old, and this sold for an unbelievable $54 million


http://www.popartuk.com/art/vincent-van-gogh/bio.asp

Letty the guy you are thinking of was Konrad Kunjau.

http://www.sniggle.net/kujau.php

Thanks, Don, but that wasn't the guy that I had in mind. This man forged, I think, Vameer and it was so good that Hitler bought it as authentic.

How about this guy Letty?

http://denisdutton.com/van_meegeren.htm

We have this one in our living room and I think it is wonderful! It's called "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening'" Hmmm......

That must be the man, Don. Thanks.

too bad
I like Dali paintings a lot, I went to the dali musem in FL, it was amazing. But i guess everyone has very different tastes when it comes to art!