Picasso's "Femme à la montre" sells for more than $139 million at auction, making it his second most expensive piece
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A Picasso painting sold at auction for more than $139 million on Wednesday – the second-highest price for a Picasso work. "Femme à la montre," a 1932 oil painting by the famed Spanish artist, was estimated to sell for $120 million but exceeded that price when this and other works from the art collection of Emily Fisher Landau went up for auction at Sotheby's in New York.
In 2015, version O of Picasso's "Les femmes d'Alger" – which he painted 15 versions of – sold at a Christie's auction for more than $179 million.
"Femme à la montre" was the star of Fisher Landau's collection. The painting depicts Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was known as Picasso's "golden muse." Walter and Picasso had a secret relationship – because they met when she was 17 and he was married to Olga Khokhlova at the time.
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