Pablo Picasso - La Gommeuse 1901
La Gommeuse 1901
81x54cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 67.45 million
Auction house: Sotheby's, New York.
Sale date: 5 November 2015
Seller: William I. Koch
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
The painting was executed in the second half of 1901 following Picasso's successful exhibition at the Vollard gallery that June. This was at the start of his Blue period of 1901 to 1904, thought to have been occasioned by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas earlier in the year, a time when his paintings were somewhat melancholic and characterized by somber monochromatic tones in blue and green