Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
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Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
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Re: Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
#2Imagine you’re so wealthy that you would rather leave behind a $340,000 painting than miss your flight
Re: Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
#3Imagine you’re so wealthy that you would rather leave behind a $340,000 painting than miss your flight
From the article it seems it wasn't on purpose:
>An unnamed businessman forgot the canvas—an untitled and undated work by French painter Yves Tanguy—at a check-in counter when boarding a flight [...] He soon realized that the 16- by 24-inch painting, which he’d stored in a flat cardboard box, had gone missing, and upon arriving in Israel, immediately contacted German authorities.
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#4Lol, I'm looking at this painting thinking: who ripped off whom, Dalí or this guy? Turns out: Dalí.
From wikipedia: "Dalí was also influenced by the work of Yves Tanguy, and he later allegedly told Tanguy's niece, 'I pinched everything from your uncle Yves.'" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
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#5This situation, in and of itself, feels quite surreal.
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#6Lol, I'm looking at this painting thinking: who ripped off whom, Dalí or this guy? Turns out: Dalí. From wikipedia: "Dalí was also influenced by the work of Yves Tanguy, and he later allegedly told Tanguy's niece, 'I pinched everything from your uncle Yves.'" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
your comment led me here to Yves's wife's wiki page:
Re: Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
#7Imagine you’re so wealthy that you would rather leave behind a $340,000 painting than miss your flight
From the article it seems it wasn't on purpose: >An unnamed businessman forgot the canvas—an untitled and undated work by French painter Yves Tanguy—at a check-in counter when boarding a flight [...] He soon realized that the 16- by 24-inch painting, which he’d stored in a flat cardboard box, had gone missing, and upon arriving in Israel, immediately contacted German authorities.
which is also very remarkable. If I had a painting worth 340.000 $ with me, I would not leave it out of my sight, much less forget about it.
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#8Imagine you’re so wealthy that you would rather leave behind a $340,000 painting than miss your flight
In my first luxury apartment, I was paranoid to leave the door unlocked even momentarily to go to the trash shoot.
The concern wears off.
The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life. That’s the price of admission.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the article it seems it wasn't on purpose: >An unnamed businessman forgot the canvas—an untitled and undated work by French painter Yves Tanguy—at a check-in counter when boarding a flight [...] He soon realized that the 16- by 24-inch painting, which he’d stored in a flat cardboard box, had gone missing, and upon arriving in Israel, immediately contacted German authorities.
which is also very remarkable. If I had a painting worth 340.000 $ with me, I would not leave it out of my sight, much less forget about it.
If it were worth that much I'd chain it to myself a la Snatch
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#10> thoroughly examined the contents of paper recycling dumpsters used by the cleaning crew.
I've seen comments elsewhere noting how German it supposedly is to examine the paper dumpsters only, and to actually be right about it.
So to nip this in the bud, let me state for the record that these are mediocre Germans at best: Oil-on-canvas does not belong in the paper recycling. They should have separated the cardboard box and properly disposed the painting as refuse.
Edit: extremely embarrassing typo corrected (see responses if you really have to know). I was going for self-deprecation, which has traditionally worked out to be less painful than this for post-war Germany. Clearly, I'm mediocre at best myself.