Real estate mogul suggests Four Seasons' beloved Pablo Picasso canvas isn't real Picasso

Anyone who ate at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York may have loved the Pablo Picasso canvas Le Tricorne and bemoaned its move to a museum, but real estate mogul Aby Rosen doesn’t see what the big deal is. He even suggested in a new interview that Picasso never even worked on Le Tricorne himself.

As we reported back in June, the New York Landmarks Conservancy, which owns the mammoth canvas, planned on moving it to the New York Historical Society as Rosen, who owns the Seagram Building that the Four Seasons is located in, said the building could no longer accommodate the 95-year-old piece. As The New York Post reports, the canvas was moved on Sunday.

Now that the canvas is out of the building, Rosen did an interview with Vanity Fair. He claims that Le Tricorne is nothing special and it only ended up in the Seagram Building because no one else wanted it. He even said that the canvas may have been cut to specifically fit in the building.

“It ended up there because nobody wanted to piss away the $50,000 they paid for it,” Rosen said, adding that he believes Picasso never directly worked on the piece.

According to the Post, Rosen also said that the Four Seasons may have to close once its lease is up in two years. If the historic restaurant wants to stay, rent will go up.

“I will get the same money from them as I get from anybody else. Why would they not be able to pay the same money as anybody else?” Rosen told Vanity Fair. “You know, this is a $25-million-grossing restaurant, the Four Seasons. These are not poor little guys running a not-for-profit gig here.”

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