A portrait painted by Pablo Picasso of his “golden muse” and secret lover has sold for $139.4m (£114m) at an auction by Sotheby’s in New York. Femme à la Montre becomes the second most valuable work by the artist. Painted in 1932, the picture was described by the auctioneers Sotheby’s as the “prized jewel” of about 120 artworks owned by Emily Fisher Landau, one of the greatest art collectors of the 20th century. The sale...
Sotheby’s is presenting the Emily Fisher Landau Collection to be sold across dedicated evening and day sales in New York this November, marking a historic auction event. The total value of the collection is estimated at $400m, and it features works by Picasso, Mondrian and Jasper Johns. The star lot of the group is Pablo Picasso’s Femme à la Montre (Woman With a Watch), a 1932 portrait of the artist’s young lover Marie-Therese Walter, which...
