First, we learned that the Denver Art Museum’s revelers get a little too celebratory, to the detriment of a William Wiley.
Now, Steve Wynn‘s “Le Rêve” turns into his nightmare: He had planned to sell that Picasso for $139 million to the the unstoppable Steven Cohen, AP reports today. Then Wynn accidentally punched a hole in it. The ebullient eyewitness Nora Ephron, posted her firsthand account yesterday on her blog.
And The New Yorker, also yesterday, posted a Picasso post mortem, which ended like this:
Last Friday, when Wynn’s alarm went off, at 7 A.M., his wife turned to him in bed and said, “I consider this whole thing to be a sign of fate. Please don’t sell the picture.” Later that morning, Wynn called Cohen and told him he wanted to keep the painting, after all.
I guess that leaves Cohen with more money for the fall art auctions…not that he needed it.