Al, I agree with you. $60 million for this thing? Ridiculous!.
I recently went to the Guggenheim. They were showing unknown Picasos and work by that idiot Dine. I went downstairs and got my money back.
Maggymae. Why don't you purchase it?.

"Magyymae:" Don't look now, but as you "appreciate" this "great work of art," people behind you are smirking, pointing at you, and saying "look, the emperor's wearing no clothes!"
If such passion in art is so evident, why do we regularly hear about one painting or another that has slipped past the "experts," who had no idea it was painted in 2009 by an accountant or a mechanic?

Art is a state of mind: if you hear that something was painted by Picasso, you instantly love it; if it was painted two years ago, by Joe Smith down the street, you point out the lack of real "talent and passion." - Oops, wait a minute - somebody swapped them: the first one is the Smith, and the second one is the Picasso. How did the (faux) art snobs miss that? They must not have really been paying attention. - I hate the overused term "LOL," but this really calls for one - LOL! ! !

Mag- I've made canvases where I lost weight during the last day or two of finishing the work. It takes two days alone just to finish the underdrawing.
Most canvases take 5 or 6 weeks to complete. When Pablo became a hit, working weeks to finish a canvas would not generate a steady income. So, he grabbed his bruishes and palate and scribbled a cow, etc. And sold a lot of paintings. The scribble became "abstract" same as Vincent Van Gogh's thick globbed-on paint became "Impressionism". If you would like a "surrealistic" canvas I can knock out an original for you in about 45 minutes.

And by the way - Wake up Maggie I think I got something else to say to you: you're wrong about "abstract:" I believe you're thinking of "extract." Abstract: "having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content "