The painting belonged to Emily Fisher Landau, the extravagant collector who owns works that are now worth millions.
picasso. The painting by the Malaga artist exhibited before the auction.
The renowned painting of Pablo Picasso which he painted in 1932, “The woman with a watch“, this was auctioned Wednesday per night per Sotheby’s in NY. The price was $139.3 millionthe second highest achieved by this artist, who died 50 years ago, and the highest of the yearsurpassing the art auctions of this 2023 around the world.
This work that represents one of the lovers and muses by the artist born in Malaga, the French painter Marie-Therese Walterhad been estimated at more than $120 million, according to the auction house.
The painting belonged to the New Yorker Emily Fisher Landauwho died at the age of 102, and whose collection of works by Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol It was also auctioned on Wednesday and will continue this Thursday at Sotheby’s headquarters in Manhattan.
In this way, the house owned by the French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahihopes to sell the Landau collection alone for more than $400 million.
The most expensive work ever sold
He historical record of Picasso is “The Women of Algiers (Version O)”with $179.4 million. This oil on canvas painted in 1955 is the most expensive modern work never sold at auction.
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Until then it was also the most expensive auction in history, but was surpassed in November 2017 by “Salvator Mundi“, of Leonardo da Vinci, sold in 450 million dollarshe current world record on the art market.
The sale of “The woman with a watch” at 139.3 million dollars entered the top ten of the most expensive works of history sold at auction, and displaced to the famous painting of Edvard Munch, The Scream (1895), already Sainte-Victoire mountain (1888-1890), from Paul Cezannestaying with him place nine.
Source: Ambito
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