《Pablo Picasso postcard sells for record-breaking amount》 - 免费有声读物

The world's most expensive postcard has sold for a record-breaking $188,000 dollars Another record-breaking piece of art by Pablo Picasso's been sold. The world's most expensive postcard cost 188-thousand dollars. That doesn't even include the commission that goes to the southern Germany auction house that sold it, so that'll bump up the price to more than 227-thousand dollars. After an intense bidding session, Business Insider says a 'trans-Atlantic collector\ sealed the deal by telephone. The new owner's taking home a post card from 19-18 that Pablo Picasso sent to his friend French poet Guillaume Apollinaire { gEE-YOME (hard 'g, like key-OM) A-POLL-KNEE-AIRE} A picture on the back is an aerial view of the southwestern French town of Pau . The drawing's considered a part of his cubist still-life series. It's also marked with a stamp that says in French \return to sender.\ That's because the postcard never made it to the poet. Picasso addressed it to his friend in Spanish instead of French. The auction house was still able to get a hold of the postcard between the 'pen pals' and the rest is set in art history.