Day: February 6, 2013

Picasso Portrait sells for $45M at London Auction

It’s Pablo Picash-o: Picasso’s portrait of lover sells for whopping £28.5m at auction   The 1932 work, Woman Sitting Near a Window, is a portrait of the Spanish artist’s “golden muse” Marie-Therese Walter. A surrealist painting by Pablo Picasso depicting his lover with a huge forehead has fetched more than £28.5 million at auction. The …

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"Strange" Dali Portrait Sells for $3.6M USD at Sotheby's London

Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989) PORTRAIT OF MRS HARRISON WILLIAMS Estimate: 1,500,000 – 2,000,000 GBP  LOT SOLD. 2,281,250 GBP (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) signed Gala Salvador Dalí and dated 1943 (lower left) oil on canvas 91.8 by 61.4cm. 36 1/8 by 24 1/8 in. Painted in 1943. “A strange society portrait by Salvador Dali, …

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