{"id":16850,"date":"2024-02-26T01:20:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T06:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveling-cook.com\/?p=16850"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:01:07","slug":"a-picasso-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveling-cook.com\/a-picasso-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picasso in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
A large, vibrantly colored portrait by Pablo Picasso of his lover and muse Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter<\/strong> fetched $ 103.4 million at a Christie\u2019s auction held in New York<\/a> on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n The bidding for Femme assise pr\u00e8s d une fen\u00eatre (Woman sitting by a window)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em> \u00a0started at $ 45 million and soon after surpassed $ 55 million, the approximate value that the auction house experts<\/a> had given it, to end in a price $ 90 million hammer, to which fees and taxes were later added.<\/span><\/p>\n The astronomical price<\/strong> was reached after a nearly 20-minute battle between two buyers bidding on the phone through Christie’s representatives in New York<\/a>, who increased the amount slowly but surely.<\/span><\/p>\n The piece, almost a meter and a half high by 1.14 meters wide, is considered an exceptional work by Picasso,<\/a> since the Spaniard<\/a> normally painted Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se lying down, naked,<\/a> with her eyes closed and lost in her own thought, but in this one she appears sitting on a black chair near a window.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, it was painted in 1932, one of the artist’s most productive and coveted years: “Everyone wants one of his 1932 works,” explained Vanessa Fusco, the co-director of the 20th Century Art auction of this Christie’s<\/strong> Thursday.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/a>
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Painted in 1932<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nSpecifically, it was produced in October 1932 at Picasso’s Ch\u00e2teau de Boisgeloup,<\/strong> in Normandy, and is part of a series of portraits of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se that were exhibited in the exhibition “Picasso, 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy” , which in 2017 and 2018 was seen at the Tate Modern<\/a> in London<\/a> and at the Picasso Museum<\/strong> in Paris<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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