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Femme assise près d une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932). Courtesy of Christie s Images, Ltd.
The latest run of socially distanced mostly online evening sales reached its peak this evening when Picasso’s
Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932) sold to a client on the phone with Christie’s specialist Vanessa Fusco for $103.4 million after a protracted bidding war with her colleague Max Carter.
Offered as part of the $481.1 million Christie’s 20th-century evening auction (the hammer total was $414.4 million), it was a shocking display of bravura in the sales room, as the $90 million hammer on the Picasso incinerated the presale estimate of $55 million. (Unless otherwise stated, final prices include auction-house fees; presale estimates do not.)