Monday, April 16, 2018

Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 14 May 2018


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Pablo Picasso, Le Repos, oil on canvas, 1932
Photo: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Courtesy of Sotheby’s
The centerpiece of the Sotheby’s May 14 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York  will be Le Repos.



 Pablo Picasso’s “Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)” from 1937 was the prize piece in the Sotheby’s sale. 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Sotheby's
 
Like Femme au Béret, this stunning masterwork from 1932—estimated to sell from $25–35 million—is a portrait of the Spaniard’s muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s so-called “golden muse,” and according to Sotheby’s Simon Shaw, “arguably the love of his life.”


Also in the sale: