Pablo Picasso - Buste de femme. Femme à la résille 1938
Buste de femme. Femme à la résille 1938
65x54cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 67.4 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 11 May 2015
Seller: Steve Wynn
Buyer: Joseph Lau
From Christie's:
Pablo Picasso painted Buste de femme (Femme à la résille) on 12 January 1938, at the height of his relationship with the photographer Dora Maar. This picture is one of the best-known of his series of images of Dora, and crucially one of the best known remaining in private hands, having featured in a number of publications over the years, including David Douglas Duncan’s book Picasso’s Picassos. When published in 1961, that book had revealed to the world the scale of the artist’s collection of his own works. Buste de femme (Femme à la résille) was one of the pictures with which Picasso appears to have been unable to part, and it then passed into the collection of his granddaughter, Marina, from whom it was acquired by the legendary art dealer Jan Krugier.