This guy, Steve Wynn, put his elbow through a Picasso painting that he'd just agreed to sell to a friend for $139 million. Talk about clumsy. Witnesses were sworn to secrecy but this bit of gossip was too juicy to keep under wraps.
"So then I made a gesture with my right hand,” Wynn said, “and my right elbow hit the picture. It punctured the picture.” There was a distinct ripping sound. Wynn turned around and saw, on Marie-Thérèse Walter’s left forearm, in the lower-right quadrant of the painting, “a slight puncture, a two-inch tear. We all just stopped. I said, ‘I can’t believe I just did that. Oh, shit. Oh, man.’ "
The upside is that he can get it repaired and it will be as good as new.
Via Kottke
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