The parents of Laurent Schwarz, a Bavarian toddler hailed as a “pint-sized Picasso” whose artworks have fetched up to €15,000, have signed a deal with a German paintmaker that will sell a collection of colours under his name.
The two-year-old won a global following this year with his precocious talent for abstract painting. Since then the family has received a bid of €270,000 for his first work, The Fingers. Lisa Schwarz, his mother, said on Thursday that the painting had too great a sentimental value. “We’re not selling it,” she said.
“It’s his first, we like having it on our wall and Laurent is incredibly proud of the painting. This is not about earning money. This is about people appreciating that he is creating
