After dinner we had an appointment with the art people onboard. We went to the auction for fun and we ended up winning, not bidding but we won, a painting like, for free. This is the painting. It's by Jean Claude Picot. He uses kind of atypical colors. For instance, we saw another painting of his where we saw a red field of wheat.
We tagged a few paintings we liked at the pre-viewing but it turned out they were all too much for us to buy. They had a drawing for free gifts but we didn't win anything. It was entertaining though. We enjoyed it!
We've always been invited to art auctions on cruises but we've only just passed by them. This time we didn't have anything else to do so we thought, "Why not?" They had free champagne anyway.
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