Spanish botched fresco artist gets $1,400 for another work on eBay
MADRID (AP) - A painting by the 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous for her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church has fetched €1,080 ($1,421) on eBay.
The closing price Tuesday for Celia Gimenez's oil painting "Las Bodegas de Borja" ("Borja's Wine Cellar") more than tripled its starting price after 52 bids.
Gimenez said the proceeds will to the Catholic charity organization Caritas.
Gimenez became a sensation in August when pictures spread on the Internet of an "Ecce Homo" ("Behold the Man") mural in the town of Borja that she disfigured while trying to restore it. Twitter users redubbed it "Ecce Mono" ("Behold the Monkey").
The painting has since become a tourist attraction and the image has been used on T-shirts and wine labels.
The closing price Tuesday for Celia Gimenez's oil painting "Las Bodegas de Borja" ("Borja's Wine Cellar") more than tripled its starting price after 52 bids.
Gimenez said the proceeds will to the Catholic charity organization Caritas.
Gimenez became a sensation in August when pictures spread on the Internet of an "Ecce Homo" ("Behold the Man") mural in the town of Borja that she disfigured while trying to restore it. Twitter users redubbed it "Ecce Mono" ("Behold the Monkey").
The painting has since become a tourist attraction and the image has been used on T-shirts and wine labels.
Fail.
Someone has been drinking again.
Here is the painting she sold:
http://metro.co.uk/2012/12/12/oap-who-destroyed-jesus-fresco-sells-amateur-artwork-on-ebay-3313726/las-bodegas-de-borja/
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It's all exterior views. Do they have exterior wine sellars now?
Sellars???
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Pass the bottle.
@Kushfan Kushfan, We have a DUTY to get this Offbeat board rocking again.
 @WendyTeagarden  @beernpizza I am disappointed at the lack of beer and pizza...mainly the beer.
@Kushfan They were real phone numbers with real people answering the phone. I can't help it if you didn't like talking to the police dept or the Swiss consolate.
Not this week Wendy, I'm on Coronado this week.Â
Maybe next week too.
Kachina,
You have no idea how many times Wendy has given me that fake phone number.
@WendyTeagarden 867-5309, ask for Jenny.
@beernpizza Maybe we should just hang out at the AZ Republic until AmFrom Here comes fown from the ivory tower to see what we are doing. I'd invite Kush but he is too busy picking up those bales of pot in the ocean that they send up from Mexico.
 @WendyTeagarden if Kush spent a lot of time in the 'Slope, I might actually know him...that would be funny stuff. I think he is only a couple of years younger than me.
 @Kushfan now that's funny sh**, I don't care who ya are.
 @WendyTeagarden  @beernpizza I only have beer for breakfast at NASCAR or fishin'.  Glad you're successful. One time meet would be cool just to put a face to the name. No offense if no. Bob probably still has my email address. Gotta critique the bacon.
Pennsylvania 6-5000
@Kushfan Did it supply a phone number?????
I googled wendy-teagarden-restaurant, and it came up 1500 Orange Ave. in Coronado.
Weird.
Wendy, you have a restaurant?
Do I have to tip?
@beernpizza I make up the menu as I go along.
@beernpizza I like my anonymity so I won't tell you which restaurant. We already do over $1million a year.  But I did cook 15 pounds of bacon for breakfast today. Besides we don't serve beer OR pizza.
 @WendyTeagarden  @Kushfan and does your food involve bacon?!?!?
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 @WendyTeagarden  @Kushfan You've made several references to your restaurant...what kind of grub?
@Kushfan I meant Peter.......I guess.
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Can I blame the equipment like my cooks do??????
@beernpizza actually I did. I took in my Christmas bonus and "augmented" it.
Now IÂ am all set for my trip to Vegas in January.
 @WendyTeagarden meaning you brought home more than you went in with right?
@Kushfan it works with the anti-firearm crowd.
^ told
long night at the casino and the coffee is brewing right now.
Wendy hasn't had her coffee yet. 'yold'?
'comes fown from the ivory tower'?
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French Roast Baby. Nice & strong.
@Kushfan Yeah, she yold me all about it.
Wendy, I tried blaming my equipment once.
It didn't work then either.
I'm not sure what kind of "artist" this little lady is, but she should not be restoring frescoes.Â
@Kachina Kushfan wanted to sell that fresco at a gargae sale......
There's a picture of her out there somewhere. I bet she can't see her hand in front of her face.