An American TV station has blurred the breasts on Picasso’s record-breaking painting, Women of Algiers.
The painting sold for a whopping $US179million ($227million) in New York at Christie’s Auction House in Rockefeller Center on Monday.
You can see below how shockingly offensive the original painting is.
Fox5NY, which covers New York City and is part of the Fox News stable, took the decision to shelter our delicate eyes, blurring out three pairs of breasts in the painting, done during Picasso's Cubist period.
Let's make this clear: They blurred out painted Cubist breasts which, to be honest, look more like random ovals than real boobs. It seems like the price paid for a piece of Picasso is not the most obscene part of this entire situation.
A US art critic from the New York magazine, Jerry Saltz called Fox "sexually sick" for censoring the breasts.
"How sexually sick are conservatives & Fox News?," Saltz tweeted. "They blurred parts of the Picasso painting #SickMinds."
The was an outpouring of disbelief among Twitter users, prompting the hashtag #freethenipple to trend worldwide.
The painting, which Picasso completed in 1955, was inspired by French artist, Eugene Delacroix, who painted Women of Algiers in their Apartment.
Picasso's version is one of 15 oil-based works he based on this piece of art during a frenzied period of activity in the winter of 1954-55.
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