It only took a few minutes of telephone bidding for the 1932 painting depicting one of the Spanish artist s companions and muses, the French painter Marie-Therese Walter, to be sold.
NEW YORK CITY: One of Pablo Picasso s masterpieces, Woman with a Watch, was sold at auction on Wednesday night for $139.3 million by Sotheby s in New York, the second-highest price ever achieved for the renowned painter.