An bidder by phone from Switzerland presented the highest offer and therefore recovered this table for more than 10 billion millimes.
According to the Van Ham auction house, it was the first time for at least 25 years that a major Picasso painting was sold at auction in Germany.
Its estimated value was 1.5 to 2.5 million euros. It was a telephone bidder from Switzerland, who presented the highest offer.
Picasso painted a total of 400 portraits of Jacqueline Roque, 46 years younger. In 1986, she committed suicide.
The catalog indicates that Jacqueline was “the Muse and the lover of Picasso, but also the assistant, the manager and the unconditional and dedicated servant”.
