Pablo Picasso - Tête de femme 1963

Pablo Picasso - Tête de femme 1963

Tête de femme 1963
73x55cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 8.83 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, London
Sale date: 28 February 2018
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

In the last months of 1962 and into the beginning of 1963 Picasso executed a number of striking portraits of his wife Jacqueline, in which he bestowed her with a double, almost Janusian, profile.