Picasso’s LeReve Ruined

A Vegas Hotel Magnate ran his elbow through Picasso’s “The Dream.” Steve Wynn, responding to the accident, was very Urkel-like declaring, “Did I do that?!!”

He had just completed the deal to sell it for 139 Million bucks.

From the Vegas ReviewJournal here:

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.”

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 shit, look what I’ve done,” Wynn said, according to Ephron, who gave her account in a blog published on Monday.

Wynn plans to restore “Le Reve” and keep it.

Half-blind Art Dealers? Sheesh.