Infinite Critique

BBC news has today reported that an early Picasso and two other paintings by British artists George Stubbs and Alfred Munnings, have been found leaning against a bedroom wall in a house in the West Country.

Painted probably in 1901 or 1902 when Picasso was in his early 20s, the piece is called Etreinte, meaning ‘pressure’.

According to Guy Schwinge of Duke’s Auction House in Dorset;

“..this is an early work thought to be of him in a naked clinch with his girlfriend Odette.”

(Picasso, not Mr Schwinge)

Isn’t that lovely?

I mean, what a lucky, lucky, find…

Funnily enough though, I found a few masterpieces in my own more northern abode the other day.

This one was also just propped against a wall, who’d have thought it?

It looks like an early Miss E to me, when she was in her long legged period. I think she was about 6.

Then we have a piece called, ‘Self Portrait in water colour using a very thick paintbrush’ again coming from her earlier collection.

And finally, a lady with oddly shaped hips, possibly modeled on Posh Spice.
This comes from, some would say, Miss E’s more accomplished current period, aged 7.

I also found a few Miss M’s (aged 3), but they are at this point in their experimental stage, and not yet ready for public exposure.

Anyway, if you wish to purchase the above mentioned masterpieces, that’s the Picasso, the Stubbs and the Munnings, then anyone with a few spare £100,000 should get themselves to Duke’s on April 10th.

Miss E’s work can be purchased from the back of a van on Mansfield market next Thursday, though I cannot guarantee their authenticity as mums generally get to keep the originals.

Though if you offer me £100,000, I might consider it…