No Accounting For Taste

I was noodling around the Book of Face today when I came across this story:

The headline really didn't bury the lede this time:

Nude Bea Arthur Painting Is Worth $2.5 Million.

That's $2.5 Meeeeeeeeeellllllion dollars

Now Bea Arthur was a handsome woman in her day, but I don't think she was quite the object of attention that would merit such a portrait.

However.

The oil painting, made by John Currin in 1991, was quite controversial at the time it was created, being labeled an "acrid fantasy...of menopausal women" by the New Yorker.