Monday 18 April 2011

Sale of a Picasso Forty million dollars


Sold to the panel "No Icter" depicting the mistress and inspiring a famous painter Pablo Picasso arrived to record the amount of forty million U.S. dollars on Tuesday in an auction held by the House, "Sotheby's" in London. I went
Painting to a buyer did not disclose his identity in favor of the resolution of the deal over the phone after just six minutes to open the door of the auction.

And describes the panel "No Icter" mistress painter Marie - Thérèse Walter, who was at the age of 17 years when she met Picasso in 1927 in Paris and was then in the forty-fifth birthday.

And the relationship remained under wraps for years, especially that Picasso was married, "said Mary Therese that they were not known as a painter and he approached her at a train station in Paris, saying" I am .. and I'm Picasso and you will great things. "

Before the appearance of the panel "No Icter," Walter did not appear in the paintings of Picasso explicitly as they had the features of paint is visible in the background of his paintings before the panel "No Icter."

Picasso did not know wife, Olga Khoakhlufa, another woman was in the life of Picasso only after the publication of the panel "No Icter" and then collapsed marriage.

And gave birth to Walter of Picasso's daughter Maya is. 
Walter was the source of inspiration for many paintings from Picasso, including "do not Reeve (Dream)" and "We would like (naked)" and "Green Leaves (within green)," which appeared in 1932.

It has already been sold, "not to Icter" in the auction price in 1989 reached U.S. $ 5.8 million, and also offered at auction house Christie's in New York in 1996, but is not selling after they stopped bidding at $ 4.8 million.

The Picasso began painting in December 1931 and completed in January 1932