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Picasso portrait fetches $95.2m
    #5589011 - 05/04/06 03:09 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Picasso portrait fetches $95.2m



A Picasso portrait of his lover Dora Maar has been sold for $95.2m (£51.8m), the second highest amount ever paid for a painting at auction.

The 1941 masterpiece Dora Maar With Cat was sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday.

Sotheby's said Dora's "sculptural presence" and the "gorgeous palate of colours" made it worth so much.

Its value ranked it behind another Picasso piece, Boy with a Pipe, which fetched a record $104m (£57m) in 2004.

Sotheby's co-chair of Impressionist and modern art David Norman said he was "surprised, thrilled and grateful," at the sale's result.

"Besides just being Dora - who was one of his most famed lovers and subjects of his work - it's really just the presence and the execution of the picture that makes it so valuable," he said.

Dora Maar, who was also an artist, is said to have helped with the execution of Picasso's Guernica, his masterpiece depicting the horror of the Spanish Civil War.

The couple's relationship lasted a decade in the 1930s and '40s.

Her influence on the artist is thought to have resulted in the most daring portraits of his career.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4971444.stm


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Offlinestefan
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Re: Picasso portrait fetches $95.2m [Re: asd11]
    #5589024 - 05/04/06 03:20 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

:eek:


maybe I can afford a poster of it :lol:


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Re: Picasso portrait fetches $95.2m [Re: stefan]
    #5590661 - 05/04/06 04:36 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Haha...learn2paintimo.  :smile:


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Re: Picasso portrait fetches $95.2m [Re: Syle]
    #5590776 - 05/04/06 05:15 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

guernica is so amazing


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