The first Picasso sale of the year will be happen next month in London, during a Sotheby’s auction of Impressionist and Modern Art. The master piece is a 1932 representation of his famous mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, known as Femme assise près d’une fenêtre. The iconic portrait of his ‘Golden Muse’ is expected to fetch as much as $56.2 million.
Other wonderful pieces that will be sold at the auction include the 1945 Femme revant de l’evasion by Fundacio Joan Miro, which hasn’t been out for purchase in half a century, and which is expected to raise between $12.7 and $19.2 million; and also the beautiful Nympheas avec reflets de Hautes Herbes by Claude Monet, painted between 1914 and 1917, and estimated to go for $19.2-$28.7 million.
