five people were ultimately over the phone fighting over this beautifulard going up incrementally going up by a million, starting at $120 million. take me in the room and tell me what it was like. you sort of get hardened to these numbers. did you blink at that amount of money? i didn t expect to bring that much but i didn t blink at it. i was this also when it sold for $32 million in 1997. who was buying listen i studied spanish, loved picasso, cubism. the idea of spending that kind of money who has that kind of money? are we talking actors, celebrities, investment bankers, warren buffetts of the world? well you know frankly, to spend that kind of money, $179 million on a painting imagine what kind of wealth you ve got to have. a billion dollars would never do