Pablo Picasso - Femme assise dans un jardin. Woman sitting in a garden 1938

Pablo Picasso - Femme assise dans un jardin. Woman sitting in a garden 1938

Femme assise dans un jardin. Woman sitting in a garden 1938
131x97cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 49.5 million
Auction house: Sotheby's, New York
Sale date: 10 November 1999
Seller: Robert Saidenberg
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

From Sotheby's:
This magnificent painting is one of Picasso's daring depictions of his lover, Dora Maar. Picasso’s portraits of Dora Maar, a talented artist and photographer closely associated with the Surrealist movement, are amongst the most penetrating images of his entire oeuvre. Balanced on the edge of Surrealist representation, they tread the fine line between naturalism and abstraction to depict a high level of psychological drama between artist and model.