Portrait Of Picasso's Lover Goes For $29 Million At London Auction

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Three separate portraits of three lovers of Picasso sold for a combined $68 million at a Christie's auction in London last night.

The highlight of the sale, a portrait of Dora Maar called Femme assise, robe bleue, was purchased by Dimitris Mavromatis, a Greek art buyer, for $29.1 million. It had been expected to go for between $6.5 and $12.8 million.

An intimate portrait of Picasso's lover Marie-Thérèse Walter sold for $21.9 million to an anonymous bidder, and Buste de Françoise, a painting of Françoise Gilot, an author and artist who bore two of Picasso's children, went for $17.3 million.

All told, the sale of Impressionist and Modern art brought in $227 million to the auction house.

Pablo Picasso's "Femme assise, robe bleue" sold for $29.1 million

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Pablo Picasso's "Jeune fille endormie" sold for $21.7 million

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Pablo Picasso's "Buste de Françoise" sold for $17.2 million

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Paul Gauguin's "Le vallon" sold for $10.4 million

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "La source (Nu allongé)" sold for $8.2 million

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René Magritte's "Souvenir de voyage" sold for $8 million

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Wassily Kandinsky's "Bayerisches Dorf mit Feld" sold for $8 million

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