Picasso art sells in NY for US$9.3m
Published:Sunday | May 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP) :A 1965 Pablo Picasso painting inspired by his wife has sold for US$9.3 million at a New York City auction.
Last Wednesday's price for 'Woman with the Large Hat, Bust' at the Sotheby's auction house was in line with its pre-sale estimate.
The painting depicts Jacqueline Roque, who married Picasso in 1961. It hung for 50 years in the Manhattan apartment of Patricia Kennedy Lawford, a sister of former US President John F. Kennedy. It was sold by Lawford's estate.
The sale came a day after a record sale for a 1932 Picasso painting of his mistress. 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' sold at a Christie's auction for US$106.5 million, a world-record price for any work of art at auction.
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