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Picasso painting sells for $103 mn in New York AFP 14/05/2021 AFP © DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS The painting Woman Sitting Near a Window (Marie-Therese) is the fifth Pablo Picasso work to sell for more than $100 million Pablo Picasso s Woman Sitting Near a Window (Marie-Therese) sold Thursday for $103.4 million at Christie s in New York, the auction house said. The painting, completed in 1932, was sold after 19 minutes of bidding for $90 million, which rose to $103.4 million when fees and commissions were added, Christie s said. Christie s had estimated the painting bought by an online bidder in California would sell for $55 million.  The sale confirms the vitality of the art market despite the Covid-19 pandemic but also the special status of Picasso, who was born in 1881 and died in 1973. 

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