Picasso work fetches €23m at Sotheby's
Thursday, June 25, 2015 @ 11:58 AM
A PICASSO painting auctioned at Sotheby's in London has fetched a record 16.38 million pounds (€22.93m).
The cubist portrait inspired by the artist's muse Marie-Thérèse Walter features two women reading books and its title – Deux Personnages (La Lecture) is in French rather than the Málaga-born painter's native Spanish.
Another Picasso went for a substantial price, but nowhere near those of Deux Personnages – selling at 4.4 million pounds (€6.16m) was Nature Morte ('Still life').
But Picasso best-seller at Sotheby's this week was a long way off attracting the highest price.
Suprematism, 18th Construction, an abstract by 20th-century Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich fetched 21.42 million pounds (€29.96m), although short of its estimated 30 million pounds, or €42m.
And Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt's Bildnis Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsöványi) scooped up 24.78 million pounds (€34.69m), and French Impressionist Édouard Manet's Le bar aux Folies Bergère came in slightly above the Picasso painting at 16.94 million pounds (€23.71m) .
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