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Picasso Portrait of Lover Stars in $190 Million Sotheby’s Sale
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Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Joan Miro starred in a $190 million auction that showed a prevalence of wealthy buyers for Impressionist and modern art, provided works are fresh to the market.
A 1932 Picasso painting of his lover Marie-Therese Walter sold for a top price of 28.6 million pounds ($44.8 million) with fees at Sotheby’s in London last night. Monet’s 1885 snow scene “Le Givre a Giverny” was bought for 8.8 million pounds.