i think this was would have to be a world record today

the owner of picasso's "dream" painting steve wynn had just finished selling the thing for $184.8 million when he was holding the painting showing it to friends when he accidently smashed his elbow through it putting a nice hole clean thro the middle of it

he was quoted as saying "oh shit, look what ive done"

-Joel

insurance job.

:cry haha loser with a capital L..

wow... lucky he owned it... imagine how much crap u would be in if u had actually destroyed someone elses elses 185million dollar piece.. :o!

haha classic, are you sure it was his elbow?

what a dick, er i mean the guy who did it not the guy in the photo! lol

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Picasso's famed "Dream" painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion dollar canvas an elbow.

Wynn had just finalised a $139 million sale to another collector of his painting, called "Le Reve" (The Dream), when he poked a finger-sized hole in the artwork while showing it to friends at his Las Vegas office a couple of weeks ago.

Director and screenwriter Nora Ephron, who witnessed and related the incident in her blog on the Huffington Post Web site ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com ), said Wynn had raised his hand to show the group something about Picasso's 1932 portrait of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter.

"At that moment, his elbow crashed backward right through the canvas. There was a terrible noise," Ephron wrote, noting that Wynn has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that damages peripheral vision.

"Smack in the middle ... was a black hole the size of a silver dollar. 'Oh shit,' he said. 'Look what I've done. Thank goodness it was me.'"

Wynn's office on Tuesday confirmed the story, an account of which also appeared in this week's The New Yorker. Both accounts said Wynn had decided to release the buyer from the sale agreement and to repair and keep the painting himself.

Wynn, a millionaire casino developer and art collector, developed The Mirage and Bellagio resorts in Las Vegas in the 1990s, which spearheaded a profusion of luxury hotels and casinos on the once-seedy Las Vegas Strip.

Another:
Talk about putting the "D'oh!" in a painting worth a whole lot of dough.

Just a day after arranging to sell Pablo Picasso's "Le Reve" (French for "The Dream") for a record-setting chunk of cash, casino owner Steve Wynn put a silver dollar-sized hole in the prized painting with his elbow in front of a star-studded group that included Barbara Walters and screenwriters Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

The costly bout of klutziness occurred as Wynn, who suffers from an eye disease that affects peripheral vision, gestured in the direction of the art, leaving a hole in the forearm of Marie-Theresa Walter, Picasso's young mistress portrayed in the painting.

And according to a report in Ephron's blog, Wynn reacted accordingly.

"Oh @#$!, look what I've done," she quotes him as saying.

A mere 24 hours before the hole-poking nightmare, Wynn had finalized a deal to sell the painting to art collector Steven Cohen for a cool $139 million — $4 million more than the previous high for a work of art, according to The New Yorker.

Good thing Wynn has some change to spare.

He plans on restoring the punctured work — which he bought for just $48.4 million in 1997 — and keeping it for himself.

you wouldn,t want to be driving on the road with this guy lol
being my first year at uni studying Bachelor of Arts we have had a fair few discussions about this today
how would you be feeling... pretty stupid
it was lucky he owned it tho and he let the buyer out of the deal