Picasso painting La Lecture fetches $40m at auction

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: BBC

A portrait of the muse who transformed painter Pablo Picasso's life has sold for £25.2m ($40.7m) at Sotheby's auction house in London.

La Lecture went to an anonymous phone buyer after six minutes of bidding.

The masterpiece depicts Pisasso's secret lover, Marie-Therese Walter, who was 17 when Picasso, then 45, met her in Paris for the first time.

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[virgogal]

1. Psssst! I bought it.

[struggle4progress]

2. For $40 million, I'd have painted you a painting a month for a year.

Just sayin

[liberation]

3. And I would have undercut you: 2 paintings a month for a year

Same price, twice the paintings.... ;-)

[struggle4progress]

15. DU: the go-to place for everyone's bulk purchases of Fine Art. Convenient one-stop shopping!

[AlbertCat]

4. The painting's beautiful!

And the history of it is even better!

[NoodleyAppendage]

5. So, a pederast's painting catches a ton of money...how perception changes our views.

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole. ;)

J

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. Great David Bowie song!!!

[woo me with science]

6. The painting:

[UndertheOcean]

8. Absolutely stunning , Picasso was freakishly genius.

No one line in that thing is out of place . Almost miraculous use of two dimensional space.

makes anything else seem immensely mediocre.

one other look , WOW !!!

(BTW , I like it :) )

[UndertheOcean]

9. Staring at this is like meditation , Rec'ced.

[melm00se]

10. wouldn't have it hanging in my house

art is like that: one man's treasure is another's trash

[Hardrada]

7. Well I didn't want that one anyway. I wanted the Guernica one or

the blue period guy with a guitar maybe.

[struggle4progress]

12. Girl looks great. Chair's not done well. If it were mine, I'd cut the girl out

and paste her onto a better background

:D

[Hardrada]

16. I'd paste her onto a 1960's Dodge magazine ad.

And hang this on the door to the basement.

[struggle4progress]

17. Whoa! Dada!

[Hardrada]

18. Dada on the road to Surrealism!

We don't get as many surrealist posts on DU as we used to.

[xchrom]

11. An awesome painting. Nt

[itsrobert]

14. Not worth 40 million

to me. But I guess people have money to burn nowadays by not hiring folks, get big tax breaks, and maybe give the painting to their bratty kids when they die.