Life Hypothetical: you get one piece of art.

**Rain Man** · 02-07-2010, 09:56 PM

You can pick any one item whose sole value is as art. Any item - painting, sculpture, monument, or any other item as long as its sole value is as art. (In other words, you can't select the Queen Mary and call it art.)

But as with the rest of life, there are some rules. Those rules are:

1. You get it for the rest of your life for your own personal enjoyment in your personal residence.

2. You can't sell it or make any money off of it, and when you die it goes back to whomever currently owns it.

3. The item will be maintained at no cost to you.

4. It must be taken in its full form, so you can't take just a piece of a large item (e.g., the head of the Statue of Liberty).

5. You have to pay if it requires any modification to your home. (For example, if you select the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, you may have to move to a larger home that has a big ceiling.)

What item do you select?

MoreLemonPledge · 02-07-2010, 09:58 PM

**Donger** · 02-07-2010, 10:00 PM

Original 'Dogs Playing Poker.'

**Reaper16** · 02-07-2010, 10:01 PM

88TG88 · 02-07-2010, 10:04 PM

Moses by Micheangelo

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JD10367 · 02-07-2010, 10:05 PM

I'm pretty simple. Antonio Canaletto's "Bacino di San Marco", which I saw hanging in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts when I was young and impressionable.

**OnTheWarpath15** · 02-07-2010, 10:06 PM

Klimt.

Ebolapox · 02-07-2010, 10:08 PM

**Donger** · 02-07-2010, 10:09 PM

Actually, I'd pick Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

**OnTheWarpath15** · 02-07-2010, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

Actually, I'd pick Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Seurat's an excellent choice.

**Donger** · 02-07-2010, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

Seurat's an excellent choice.

I like big butts, and I cannot lie.

**Buck** · 02-07-2010, 10:12 PM

The horse from Invesco.

**OnTheWarpath15** · 02-07-2010, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

I like big butts, and I cannot lie.

JD10367 · 02-07-2010, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by H5N1

I'm going to Oslo in May, and looking forward to seeing at least one copy of this (apparently he made multiples... Oslo has some in the Munch Museum and in their National Gallery, so I'll see at least one of 'em...).

JD10367 · 02-07-2010, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

Seurat's an excellent choice.

Isn't that painting, or another by that artist, the one Cameron was staring at in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"?

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