NEW YORK (AFP) – One of Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces, Woman with a Watch, was sold at auction on Wednesday night for USD139.3 million by Sotheby’s in New York, the second-highest price ever achieved for the artist. In a jam-packed room at the venerable auction house, it only took a few minutes of telephone bidding for […]
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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, April 8 Sotheby’s hopes to capitalise on collectors’ appetite for Picasso at its upcoming evening sale of modern art. The auction will feature Femme nue couchée (Naked woman reclining), a painting by the Spanish artist that has remained in the same private collection for 14.