Pablo Picasso - Woman with Folded Arms. Femme aux Bras Croisés 1902

Pablo Picasso - Woman with Folded Arms. Femme aux Bras Croisés 1902

Woman with Folded Arms. Femme aux Bras Croisés 1902
81x58cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 55.0 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 8 November 2000
Seller: Family of Chauncey McCormick, Chicago
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Femme aux Bras Croisés (Woman with Folded Arms), is a painting by Pablo Picasso done in 1902 during his Blue Period. The subject of the painting is unknown, but she may be an inmate of the Saint-Lazare hospital-prison in Paris.
In her book Pablo Picasso, Antonina Vallentin devotes a great deal of time to writing about the haunting qualities of this painting. She describes her views of the subject as an inmate, who recently attempted suicide and now carries the blank but menacing stare of those unfortunates who found themselves at Saint-Lazare during the early 1900s.