Another example of the 'relativity of perspective'.......the 'back' of a Picasso etching.....blacked out and discarded....then gathered from the illustrious artist's trash can, then matted and framed and sold for thousands of bucks.........After the Antonio Banderas Picasso Biopic, the values of even his 'trash' has skyrocketed........In the late 1960's I bought two large Picasso etchings [that I found in a barrel of rolled up wallpaper at Peachtree Quality Salvage] of the artist, masturbating as he sketched nude models..... $8, for the pair....I sold them to my friend Hal Chamberlain for $4000, thinking Hal was nuts to offer me so much for them........Then, I find this kind of "stuff" for several times this amount.....Go Figure......What's in 'a Name'......apparently, much of anything's value.....I remember the painting that was sold, decades ago, at Sotheby's......that was discovered to have been 'created' by a monkey, flinging its own feces at a canvas.........."The work of a Genius", Gallery owners and collectors declared!
