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    Brian Blessed Says He Threw Away A Picasso ‘Worth £50m’

    Brian Blessed reckons that he threw away a picture sketched for him by Picasso, because he thought it was rubbish. Picasso’s ‘Women of Algiers’ sold in New York in May for £130 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, and when asked if he’d ever learned any harsh lessons about money, the perennially good value Blessed details how he approached the painter and cubist somewhat brazenly in a gallery in Sheffield, aged 12.