Preview: Picasso Madoura Pottery, ca. 1954 | Vintage Tucson 2021, Hour 1 | ANTIQUES ROADSHOW | PBS 

But first let me call a Picasso expert I know😎

Cuz he’s ‘taking all the risk’.

"I gotta keep the lights on..."

C’mon, man. He’s got to frame those up.

If you could make that form alone you'd be a master.

@@themonkeyhand you mean the doodles on the pottery requires one to be a master painter?

​@@CochinKerala I mean just making the pot itself. It took a master painter to make doodles fashionable, his entire development as an artist didn't exist in a vacuum. All that "deviant" art was borne out of a helluva lot blood. Read about European art movements post-WW I. You'll find why people shifted away from "realism" after what they saw and you'll be pretty surprised at how weird people were 100 years ago.

I get nervous just watching people so casually handle valuable stuff

Thought the same thing!

Toddlers and small children developmentally have a lack of self-consciousness when creating art, writing and speaking. They don’t do things to impress others when genuinely expressing themselves. Kids go through almost a sad phase around age 9/10/11 where they become very very self conscious and lose the ability to be free with their artistic expression because the focus shifts to “fitting in” and “relating to peers “. When they go through this phase they have a lot of self-doubt and insecurity. They want all of their art to resemble cartoons and things that already exist. Picasso was trying to access the most free part of himself and was even quoted as saying he was trying to access the youngest years in development to achieve artistic freedom. As an artist I can tell you that the ability to access imaginative freedom and lack of self criticism from the pre-teen and tween years is a huge goal! Who wants to be saddled with adult self doubt and stifled creativity? People who have not studied art history, development and art movements often do not understand the beauty of simplistic mark making.

yeah, same for me with Jean-Michel Basquiat

and was able to create (and sell) more wonderful art.

Careless owner ? My grandmother cherished these every day , art isn’t art if it isn’t shown.

Somethings go down when they do the reviews. Others stay exactly the same.

lol she sounds spoiled by a rich husband, of course she doesn’t care about money- she can demand her husband take her on vacation to buy a Picasso on a whim

True. The money doesn't really matter to her. The appraisal was just a means to get her attention.

She was my mother in law! She was the very opposite of spoiled! She was a very charming and hard working woman. We truly miss her and sometimes watch this video to see and hear her!

The stick figures one, yeah. The black one looks like a Picasso. :0) Not my favorite, but his style was distinct.

@@megalopolis2015 At this point in his career, he took advantage of his own name.

@@fresky74 Picasso was aware of that and commented about having to take a lifetime to learn how to paint like a 5 year old.

An artist friend of mine said years ago that Picasso paid off his critics to have them gush over his weird paintings etc. Was he right or maybe just a case of professional jealousy? I too find little interest in his art. I know a lot about art, I just don't know what I like.

@@adrianjanssens7116 I find it doubtable that Picasso would have paid off his critics. He would have had to have been successful already to be able to afford to throw money around like that.

I don’t enjoy his art, but it was fun seeing her enthusiasm

@@oltedders My friend may have been wrong about that. He had a good line when people asked him how long does it take to paint a piece. He said it averaged about two weeks. But if they wanted something like a Picasso done, about twenty minutes.

Yeah, I’ll take a Picasso signature anyway...

Your 8 year old must be a wonderful ceramicist.

Yep its sad people don't understand this when it would be so obvious if presented in a more familiar way. Like if I built houses and a bunch of stupid people would pay me the same amount for a shack as they would a mansion why would I spend years building a mansion when I could spend days build a shack and years screwing off.

Well, he had his moments. These days it's all about selling the "story", or, more likely, gimmick. There's a reason why the half circle on the huge canvas isn't geometric, and a deep explanation for this exquisite piece looking like a used painting palette--both things I've seen. You don't have to do art anymore, but you do need a great sales person or have experience in marketing. Very sad. Monet out, money in.

@@danielmorris7648 A perfectly idiotic comparison.

@@oltedders youre my favorite type of person. A completely conceited yet clearly stupid fool who tries so hard to look refined they come off looking like a spoiled uneducated child. "You're wrong cause I say so" yea typical for people who find trash to be art.

@@danielmorris7648 Stop whining. Being annoying doesn't advance your argument.

She’s a loon

Jo hello! Art wonder!

Picasso is laughing in his grave: a piece of paper I found in garbage, and I put my name at bottom. Now those suckers pay tens of thousands for it.

If that child was Picasso, it would be double in price

That amount she had to pay for those was enough to rent a small apartment for a year in 1957. She wasn't doing her a favor by selling those to her.

@@oltedders The year was actually 1967 and although it was a lot of money, this lady and her husband were part of the "diplomatic corps" aka Rich Folks. I also have to laugh when she says that the town was closed for 4 hours (as if it was on some sort of lockdown). What she is probably referring to is the fact that most European stores up until recently used to close midday for a few hours so people can eat with their families and rest (siesta) before reopening for the evening again. Her interpretation was a "closed" town...Daaam Mongooriaans

@@letsgodancin1 I misheard the date. I thought she was talking about it being in the middle of siesta but she seemed to be oblivious to that tradition.

True. But look at Picasso's early work and you can see that he was a very talented artist in a wide variety of styles, including realism. So at least this super simple style was an intentional choice, made by an artist who could've chosen practically any other style if he'd wanted. I dunno, that makes a difference, to me 🤷‍♂️

@@Jesse__H maybe just me but it seems lazy compared to earlier stuff.........art is in the eye of the beholder

@@PrimeDirective101 Picasso's style wasn't a gimmick. He helped to launch an entire movement in the history of art. There's a reason an original painting by Picasso will bring $100 million at auction.

It's like nails on a blackboard.

"Is not a happy man one that does not fear death? Not only was this man not afraid of death, but his days were filled with joy...looking forward to it." ~ The Blind Man But yeah, she sounded a little whiney but so what? at least she is a woman who knows what she wants.

@CYBER DEMON // LIKE, 🤷🏼‍♀️ IT DOESN'T MATTER

Bubbles 997 like, I couldn’t agree more, hence, like, my comment, or something.

@@bubbles9975 like, ur a gae

@@noahboat580 // A what?? 🤦🏼‍♀️

Tubular. :0)

Whatever it takes to motivate the old man. Being a bitch isn't as easy as it looks.

@Make Love // 🤷🏼‍♀️ Who are you to be the judge of this woman? 🤔

@@bubbles9975 Thank you for calling out this unnecessary unkindness. You know how to Show Love & Be Love. And that's what we all need More of. Keep on Shining that great big beautiful Loving Light of yours!

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You seem jealous. Yikes

@@pizzarolls0012 // 🤔 Me? Jealous of what??

@Derik Smith. Oh come on she's his wife!! Don't be ridiculous. She seems like a nice lady.

@@danacaro-herman3530 She DID get to France.

@@oltedders And good for her!☺️

Wat?

@@pjmmccann remove the apple logo from product and remove the signature of picasso from a item..

@@gebatasi3367 Hey: maybe you should try actually using an Apple product one day. Some of them (for example, the current laptop range) are head and shoulders above the rest of the field. Heck, they've pretty much *lapped* the rest of the field at the moment.

How was she a pain?

Why would you think the government, any government paid for these?