Freud
Remember how a few of months ago
Roman Abramovich demolished sales records by paying
$34 million for a portrait by Lucian Freud? Well, now some idiot antiques book dealer—granted, "the best host in all Europe"—has gone and destroyed a similar era painting of himself by Freud because he didn't like how his double chin was represented. News came about after Freud wanted to include the painting in a show that would have likely fetched heirs of
Bernard Breslauer, the man in the painting, a number similar to the Abramovich piece. It's a little like
The Picture of Dorian Gray but with a whole new brand of idiot-narcissist. [
Telegraph]