PICASSO vs RUBIN TAKE YOUR CHOICE

Picasso’s painting “Dora Maar au Chat” was sold by Sotheby’s  at an auction in 2006 in New York for ( hold your breath) $96,216,000.  I am willing to part with my Rubin painting for only $1,000,000. It now hangs in my bedroom and I praise it in my mind daily. I call my painting “Kathy Smith a la Fenetre”,  but first an explanation.

It is my considered belief that the cubist who Pablo Picasso was, sold this painting originally for over one million dollars. Picasso was in the exalted company of Renoir, the impressionist and Rembrandt, the realist. Paintings are not judged only by colour, design and ideas but by the importance in society of the original buyer.  The first buyer of the “Dora Maar au Chat”,  whose name I do not know, was probably a well known  European citizen with standing in the art community and with a lot of money.   The “Kathy Smith a la Fenetre” was painted by my daughter Aviva Rubin and given to a non entity in the art community, me.  As well, I did not have a great deal of money. If my artist daughter had succeeded in getting Galen Weston or Gerald Schwartz to buy her painting we would now be looking at a painting worth much more than my asking price. Gerald and Galen you can now have the painting at the discounted price. The picture is of a young woman, sitting on a chair near a window with drapes, with eyes the shape of the moon she is looking at. A masterpiece! Let the bidding begin.

Dora Maar Au Chat by Pablo Picasso

Kathy Smith a la fenetre by Aviva Rubin

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