That the Art is invaluable remains testified yet again by the recent awesome auction of one of the pre-eminent paintings of Internationally acclaimed artist and hailed as the inventor of cubism to the fraternity of art, Pablo Picasso , the visionary painter who discovered the newest paradigms for the truistic enrichment of the art making his name historical..
A 1932 Pablo Picasso masterpiece has sold for $139m (£113m), the second highest price ever achieved for the artist, according to Sotheby’s.
Femme a la Montre (Woman with a Watch) also becomes the most valuable work sold at auction this year.
It depicts Marie-Therese Walter, the French model who was also a lover of the Spanish artist, and the subject of many of his paintings.
The work had been valued at $120m before it went to auction.
It was previously owned by the late art collector Emily Fisher Landau, who bought it in 1968, and has been purchased by an anonymous buyer.
Femme a la Montre is a portrait of Walter seated in a throne-like chair against a blue background.
Known as Picasso’s “golden muse”, Walter was 17 when she met the 45-year-old Picasso in Paris, and the pair later entered into a secret relationship while he was still married to Olga Khokhlova, a Ukrainian ballerina.
Walter became the subject for many of Picasso’s paintings, including the 1932 work Femme Nue Couchee, which sold for $67.5m at auction in 2022.
Picasso’s most expensive painting to sell at auction was Les Femmes d’Alger (Women of Algiers), which fetched $179.3m at Christie’s in 2015.
Born in Malaga in 1881 and growing up in Barcelona, Picasso moved to Paris in 1904 and became one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
He experimented with a wide range of styles and themes in his career, most notably inspiring “Cubism”, which shows objects or people from many angles at the same time.
In a career spanning eight decades he created about 150,000 pieces.
Renowned for his prodigious output for a distinguished career spanning 81 years , Picasso was Virtually a new trendsetter for his times as also for the times to come as they have been attracting the attention of all art lovers across the world and the present incident is one such to prove that Picasso is still alive amongst us in the form of his varied paintings which he has bestowed upon the humanity ,marking a dimension for the art he practices all through..
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