From reviewjournal.com, with minor editing:

Pablo Picasso's "dream" painting has turned into a $139 million nightmare for Steve Wynn.

In an accident witnessed by a group that included Barbara Walters and screenwriters Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi, Wynn accidentally poked a hole in Picasso's 74-year-old painting, "Le Reve," French for "The Dream."

A day earlier, Wynn had finalized a record $139 million deal for the painting of Picasso's mistress, Wynn told The New Yorker magazine

The accident occurred as a gesturing Wynn, who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that affects peripheral vision, struck the painting with his right elbow, leaving a hole the size of a silver dollar in the left forearm of Marie-Theresa Walter, Picasso's 21-year-old mistress.

"Oh sugar honey iced tea, look what I've done," Wynn said, according to Ephron, who gave her account in a blog published on Monday.

Wynn paid $48.4 million for the Picasso in 1997 and had agreed to sell it to art collector Steven Cohen. The $139 million would have been $4 million higher than the previous high for a work of art, according to The New Yorker.


I guess, if that kind of money doesn't matter much.... My reaction probably would have been different.

Cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder paid $135 million in July for Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I."

Wynn plans to restore "Le Reve" and keep it.

Why would you have something like that just sitting out and not in a case?

quote Originally posted by Patrick's Dad: "Oh sugar honey iced tea, look what I've done,"

I think that's rich talk for "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU@# "

"Did I do that?" (in an annoying erkil voice)

As he relies:

From Al Pachino from Glenn Gary Glenn Ross

"You stupid F'n C"

quote Originally posted by ryan.hess: I think that's rich talk for "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU@# "

That was the edit. His original was NSFW.

ahh... right over my head. [zoooom]

I would have chosen stronger language. Ozzy's ears would've bled.

But then again, $130 million to him is probably like $1000 to us...

"Oh well... I'll just buy another"