No, haven't seen that one. Sounds interesting though.

Okay, @MrLizard, here ya go.

There was a time in my early years when I made a few bucks here and there selling what I liked to call art. I did dry-brush paintings of WW I aircraft in action, and impressionist style oils. One of the galleries I dealt with in Huntington Beach, CA, maintained a rummage collection of bits and pieces of art from locals on a sort of grab bag shelf.

I was sorting through the shelf one day and was shocked to find an original Picasso. It was one of his sketches of line and minimal color of a ballerina putting on her shoe on what I can only call a paper bag. That sort of thing was typical of him. Price tag, 3 bucks. I bought it from the person on duty at the register who obviously didn't know art from hamburgers. She didn't bat an eye and I said nothing.

I had this piece in my collection for some three plus years in a simple frame. One day, I decided to change it to another frame I was waiting on, so I removed it from the frame and stacked it on my low bookcase.

So, during the time I was waiting for the new frame to be delivered, it sat there on the bookcase, carefully rolled up. We had scheduled a family barbecue and Mom was serving as the chef in charge. Picasso wound up being part of the stuff used to start the fire.

At first I was furious, but quickly realized that it was, after all, painted on a paper bag and how would she have known because the image was to the inside of the roll.

That day, Picasso went to heaven as a burnt offering. Moral of this story, don't leave paintings done on paper bags in the open for your mother to find.

@evidentialist Makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time.

Yep. I sure did. And to show how kind a person I am, I never mentioned it to her -- well, not more than five or six times.

Yes, I knew someone would understand. Picasso, who was a genius in assembling, who couldn't/didn't show raw emotion, and made a lot of money. Van Gogh, a troubled 'soul' who could only adequately communicate through painting and his art captured him. He died pennilessly. I voted van Gogh as well. I like Picasso, but for different reasons.

I think the halo thing is from digitalis??