He is one of Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces: “Woman at the watch”, was sold at auction on Wednesday evening $ 139 million by the Sotheby’s house in New York.
The sale took place at the Sotheby’s headquarters in Manhattan where the work was sold in a few minutes on the phone for an amount of $ 139.36 million.
This 1932 canvas represents one of the companions of the Spanish artist, the French painter Marie-Thérèse Walter, and had been estimated at more than $ 120 million.
The painting belonged to the wealthy New York Emily Fisher Landau, who died this year at 102.
Marie-Thérèse Walter was the “golden muse” of Picasso, who died in 1973. The sale of “watch woman” is the second most expensive for the works of Picasso, the artist now having at least six tables valued above $ 100 million.
The absolute record for Picasso is “the women of Algiers (version” O “)” at 179.4 million dollars: this oil on canvas painted in 1955 is the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction.
At the time of its sale, on May 11, 2015 at Christie’s in New York, it was even the absolute record for an art auction, exceeded in 2017 by the “Salvator Mundi”, awarded to Léonard de Vinci, for $ 450 million.
