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Eleven works by the famous Spanish painter Picasso will be auctioned in Las Vegas on Saturday. This auction organized by Sotheby’s Auction House brought in US$108.87 million, or 93.5 million euros.
Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso) belongs to the US hotel and casino group MGM Resorts (MGM Resorts) 11 works, including his French muse Marie-Thérèse Walter (Marie-Thérèse Walter) portrait, At an auction organized by Sotheby’s on Saturday, October 23, it was sold at the famous Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, which is famous for its art collection, for US$108.87 million (93.5 million euros).
The gems in this auction, 140 two days agoelectronic The Spanish painter’s birthday is the famous painting “A Woman in a Red and Orange Beret”, which is the last of his muse and lover Marie-Thérèse Walter (Marie-Thérèse Walter) in the 1930s. One of the portraits.
This work is estimated to be between 20 and 30 million U.S. dollars, and the sale price is 40.47 million U.S. dollars. Picasso painted the mother of his daughter Maya in January 1938. He was already having an affair with the photographer Dora Mar. This was “one of Picasso’s most enlightening and productive periods”, “According to Sotheby’s Say.
Sells portraits, ceramics, drawings and still lifes
Two other iconic portraits created by the artist in the last few years of his life were sold for US$24.39 million, and “Man and Child” was sold for US$9.45 million, lower than the original estimate of US$10 million.
The painter exhibited these portraits in an exhibition at the Palais des Papes in Avignon in southern France in 1970, from January 5, 1969 to February 2, 1970.
Other works donated at this auction include ceramics, drawings and still lifes.
Agence France-Presse