By Nicolas REVISE NEW YORK, Nov 9, 2023 (AFP) – One of Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces, “Woman with a Watch,” was sold at auction Wednesday night for $139.3 million by Sotheby’s in New York, the second-highest price ever achieved for the artist. In a jam-packed room at the venerable auction house, it only took a few minutes of telephone bidding for the 1932 painting depicting one of the Spanish artist’s companions and muses, the French painter […]
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Picasso masterpiece to fetch $120 mn in November auction: Sotheby’s
The November auction of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the late Spanish painter’s “Femme a la montre” from 1932, is expected to fetch at least $120 million, Sotheby’s announced Wednesday. The painting, which depicts Picasso’s mistress wearing a watch, will be sold as part of a two-day auction of late New Yorker Emily Fisher Landau’s prestigious collection. Other works up for sale include pieces by Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. Fisher […]





