Prime-period Picasso portrait of his muse could sell for more than $60 Million at Sotheby’s next month:
, will hit the auction block for the first time on May 17. The painting marks a pivotal moment in Picasso’s career, and in his relationship with Walter. The two later had a child, Maya Widmaier-Picasso.
“When unveiled at his career retrospective in 1932, this cycle of monumental works scintillated with their rapturously romantic and sensuous depiction of Picasso’s heretofore sequestered mistress,” Brooke Lampley, Sotheby’s worldwide head of sales for fine art, said in a statement.
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