{"id":118258,"date":"2023-11-09T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/09\/picasso-masterpiece-of-golden-muse-sells-for-113m\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:02:01","slug":"picasso-masterpiece-of-golden-muse-sells-for-113m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/09\/picasso-masterpiece-of-golden-muse-sells-for-113m\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso masterpiece of &#8216;golden muse&#8217; sells for \u00a3113m"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1932 Pablo Picasso masterpiece has sold for $139m (\u00a3113m), the second highest price ever achieved for the artist, according to Sotheby&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Femme a la Montre (Woman with a Watch) also becomes the most valuable work sold at auction this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It depicts Marie-Therese Walter, the French model who was also a lover of the Spanish artist, and the subject of many of his paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work had been valued at $120m before it went to auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was previously owned by the late art collector Emily Fisher Landau, who bought it in 1968, and has been purchased by an anonymous buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Femme a la Montre is a portrait of Walter seated in a throne-like chair against a blue background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-107.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032409047 lazy\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Known as Picasso&#8217;s &#8220;golden muse&#8221;, Walter was 17 when she met the 45-year-old Picasso in Paris, and the pair later entered into a secret relationship while he was still married to Olga Khokhlova, a Ukrainian ballerina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walter became the subject for many of Picasso&#8217;s paintings, including the 1932 work Femme Nue Couchee (Nude Reclining Woman), which sold for $67.5m at auction in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Picasso&#8217;s most expensive painting to sell at auction was Les Femmes d&#8217;Alger (Women of Algiers), which fetched $179.3m at Christie&#8217;s in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Malaga in 1881 and growing up in Barcelona, Picasso moved to Paris in 1904 and became one of the most important artists of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He experimented with a wide range of styles and themes in his career, most notably inspiring &#8220;Cubism&#8221;, which shows objects or people from many angles at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a career spanning eight decades he created about 150,000 pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had four children and died in southern France in 1973, aged 92.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although his creative legacy was never in doubt, recent years have seen questions over his behaviour. 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