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World record: The most expensive picture of the world on auction

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

Pablo Picasso’s painting “Les Femmes d’Alger” has been sold for the record price of 160 million dollars (about 143 million euros). Including all fees is the total price even at around $ 179.4 million. The oil painting was thus on Monday evening (local time) in New York the most expensive ever auctioned at an auction picture of the world.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

The experts of the auction house Christie’s had the painting created in 1955 previously estimated to be “in the neighborhood of 140 million dollars.” The most expensive painting – the triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” by Francis Bacon – had also provided $ 142.4 million at Christie’s in New York about a half years ago

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The most expensive paintings: The triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” by Francis Bacon

 
             
 
             
 
                             
         
         
     

 

     

 

 
 

 
     
     
                 
                                 
                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                               
                 
                     
             
                                      The most expensive paintings: The triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” by Francis Bacon
                     
     
     
 

 
                                 
                         
         
         
                                                             

Picasso’s “Les femmes d’Alger” is about a one and a half feet tall, brightly colored, painted in a mixture of abstract and realistic, showing at least four bare-breasted women. The picture was the same time also the most expensive ever auctioned Picasso (1818-1973). It broke the record of $ 106.5 million achieved in 2010 for an “act with green leaves and bust”.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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“Les Femmes d’Alger” was originally owned by the now deceased American collector couple Victor and Sally Full that it directly bought in 1956 by Picasso’s gallery owner Daniel Kahnweiler. From the factory, there are 15 versions. The couple bought for all full-time total of $ 212,500, but sold them later gradually returns. In the work which has now been auctioned, is the version of “O”. She had been surfaced recently in 1997 at an auction and then sold for 32 million dollars. Last was the homage to Picasso’s recently deceased friend and rival artist Henri Matisse, according to Christie’s a “very private collector from New York”.

                                 

 
  

 
 
 
                       

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The most expensive painting in the world

World record in the art scene: The oil painting “Les Femmes d’Alger” by Pablo Picasso is the most expensive picture ever to be sold at auction. In Christie’s auction house a maximum price has been obtained for the version “O”.

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