Pablo Picasso - Homme à la pipe 1969

Pablo Picasso - Homme à la pipe 1969

Homme à la pipe 1969
195x129cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 18.39 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 16 November 2016
Seller: Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

When Picasso painted this brimming, energetically brushed figure of a bearded gent smoking his pipe on 8 May 1969, he had been immersed in his late signature series of mousquetaires for more than two years.