picasso for sale

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?prodid=11048740&whse=BC&topnav=&cat=21527&hierPath=20162*21525*

I found this link on Tyler Green's art journal blog: http://www.artsjournal.com/man/

He's pretty funny about it.

Art at Costco

So... Next time you're at Costco, pick up a case of toilet paper and a Picasso. A 1958 drawing by Picasso can be yours for just $129,999.99.

My favorite things:

The Costco-ization of the price.

The text is hilarious: Picasso is "most renowned for pioneering the Blue and Pink Period." Really. So who exactly followed him into this Blue and Pink Period?

Important, historical and collectible, the art presented here is museum quality fine art created by the greatest masters of the past century." Really. Masters? What 'Masters' helped Picasso with this drawing.

On Picasso's daughter Maya: "She is the world's utmost authority." Really. So let's ask her where in Iraq the WMD were. And about cold fusion, too.

What makes me happy is that Costco is truly selling everything now. Cars, coffins and picasso. Good for them. They pay their workers well, treat them decently. The CEO only makes 10x the average employee's wage rather than 1000x like at walmart. And their stock prices are solid.