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Picasso’s baby mama Françoise Gilot painted this portrait of Genevieve Laporte, his later girlfriend.

Super awkward, right?

Though I am a major fan of this turtleneck/layered necklace look, even if she seems a teensy bit like Judy Jetson.

I love this.

Genuinely. Love. This.

Electoral College got me like.

During Sotheby’s Munch sale last night, Girls on the Bridge sold for $54 million. This baby price tag makes is the second most expensive Munch work, after The Scream fetched just under $120 millz.

Impress friends: The Scream set the record of being the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, which has now been broken four times. (Picasso’s Women of Algiers takes the cake on that from its sale last year.)

I was really, really feeling this painting’s vibes…and then I did a bit more research.

Turns out Kees van Dongen’s Au Bois de Boulonge is about a prostitute approaching her customer to discuss their, uh, terms of service.

In a park.

During daylight hours.

nvm re: vibes.

(Love the cerulean dress though!)

Up next on “Art I Can’t Afford”: Pierre Bonnard’s Marthe and Black, the Dog.

First of all, I love that this dog is staring up at Bonnard’s wife from a gosh darn chaise. Turns out Bonnard painted the family dog a bunch, and I’m a huge fan. My dog is just about as important as the air I breathe, even though he’s a hot mess on a leash and takes up half the bed.

He’s 15 pounds.

There’s a pretty large Impressionist + Modern Art Day Sale at Sotheby’s tomorrow. The 15th is also pay day. So, although I should probably think more about paying bills on time and less on art I can’t afford, I’m gonna do it anyway.

First up, Henri Le Sidaner’s La Table Devant La Fenetre, Neige (“Table Before Window, Snow”). I mean, it’s nice, but HELLO, HENRI. It’s WINTER OUT THERE and the WINDOW IS OPEN.

I’m not paying $400,000 for this nonsense. I’d be freezing just looking at it.

The scariest, most sensational, heart-pounding ten innings of my life.

All my love, Cubbies.

A girl could get used to this.