Picasso Painting Sells for $106.5M

[Karl-G]

Last night at Christie's in New York, a painting by Pablo Picasso from 1932 sold for $106.5 million, an auction record. "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust" is a double portrait of Picasso's model, Marie-Therese Walters. The painting was completed in one day.

 

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x167/edith_piaf/05-04Picasso1932Nude1065.jpg

 

There are good articles in the LA Times and the NY Times about the painting and the sale.

 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-brody-picasso-20100505,0,5735075.story

 

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/picasso-sold-at-auction-for-106-5-million-a-world-record/

 

One of my other favorite paintings of Marie-Therese is "Girl Reading" in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. It is part of a large series of paintings by Picasso featuring a woman reading. The four versions of "Marie Therese in a Red Armchair" are part of this.

 

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x167/edith_piaf/05-04Picasso1932MTReading.jpg