Steve Wynn’s pointed elbow

Picasso painted four major pictures of Marie-Thérèse Walter. Le Rêve (the Dream) 1932, Nude, Green Leaves & Bust 1932, Nude in a Black Armchair 1932 and Woman in Hat & Fur Collar 1937. Billionaire Las Vegas hotel magnate Steve Wynn, a man of taste and discernment, is the famous owner of Le Rêve. He loves the painting so much he planned to build a hotel named after it (Subsequently he named it after himself). But oh dear, just as Wynn clinched a $139 million deal to sell the painting to hedge funder Steve Cohen the hyperactive hotelier poked his big pointy elbow right through the canvas, in what has been described as, ‘an over enthusiastic gesturing incident’. Wynn, who has little to no peripheral vision due to an eye condition known as retinitis pigmentosa was reportedly flinging his arms around windmill style, while he bragged about the painting to party guests who incuded Barbera Walters and art dealer Serge Sorokko. Perhaps he was explaining the weirdly phallic devision of the Marie-Thérèse’s head, clearly visible in the painting?
On 20 October 1977, four years after Picasso's death, Marie-Thérèse committed suicide by hanging herself in her garage at Juan-les-Pins, South of France. Steve Wynn repaired the painting and decided he couldn’t live without it. His Hotels remain the best in the world.