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Brad Pitt decided he simply had to have a contemporary oil painting while browsing at an international art show in Switzerland this week.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the father of six fell in love with a 9-foot-wide racetrack oil painting by German artist Neo Rauch at the The Art Basel Show in Basel, Switzerland on Tuesday, June 9. The painting depicts a driver behind a red, Formula One-style racecar, with workers nearby carrying candy-colored hoses.

Sources tell the publication, Brad “rubbed his goatee, fiddled with his tweed driving cap, then walked away.” He later returned to the booth of New York dealer David Zwirner and offered $956,000 for the colorful painting, circa 1998.