{"id":10088,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"picasso-art-work-la-reve-damaged-by-enthusiastic-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/picasso-art-work-la-reve-damaged-by-enthusiastic-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso Art Work, La Reve, Damaged by Enthusiastic Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"La Reve (The Dream), famous Picasso art work damaged\" alt=\"La Reve (The Dream), famous Picasso art work damaged\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/picasso-s-la-reve-f2b918caac49.jpg\">Imagine owning a famous Picasso art work worth $139 million and damaging it in front of witnesses. That&#8217;s what happened to owner Steve Wynn when he put his elbow through something for which he paid no small fortune. Sometimes called &#8220;<em>The Dream<\/em>&#8220;, this Picasso art work is a painting of Picasso&#8217;s young mistress, 21-year-old Marie-Theresa Walter executed 74 years ago. Wynn&#8217;s accident left a two inch hole in the famous Picasso art work. Wynn has a medical problem called retinitis pigmentosa which interferes with his peripheral vision which caused his misjudgment. The damage to the Picasso art work was witnessed by Barbara Walters and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Picasso art work set a new sale record topping the previous record by $4 million.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wynn originally paid $48.4 million in 1997 for the Picasso art work, but he planned to sell it to another collector, Steve Cohen, for a healthy profit having just finalized the deal for a record $139 million, $4 million more than the previous record set for the sale of a 1907 Gustav Klimt portrait at $135 million. Rather than sell &#8220;<em>La Reve<\/em>&#8221; Wynn intends to keep his famous Picasso art work and have it repaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For more information on Italian Renaissance Art and book recommendations, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=10039\">click here.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine owning a famous Picasso art work worth $139 million and damaging it in front of witnesses. That&#8217;s what happened to owner Steve Wynn when he put his elbow through something for which he paid no small fortune. Sometimes called &#8220;The Dream&#8220;, this Picasso art work is a painting of Picasso&#8217;s young mistress, 21-year-old Marie-Theresa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10296,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions\/10296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}