Pablo Picasso, Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’)

 

Achieving $178,365,000, Les Femmes d’Alger became the most expensive work of art sold at auction at the time of sale. It remains a record price for the artist.

 

The Book.

Published in May 2015 to coincide with the sale of Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) at Christie’s New York.

Publisher: Christie’s Inc., May 2015
Kent Albin, Design // Robert Brown, William Paton, John Steinert, Candace Wetmore, Text

“‘I have a feeling that Delacroix, Giotto, Tintoretto, El Greco, and the rest, and as well as all the modern painters, the good and the bad, the abstract and the non-abstract, are all standing behind me watching me at work.”

— Pablo Picasso

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