NEW YORK (Notimex) .- “The Women of Algiers (O version)”, the Spanish genius Pablo Picasso arts, was sold on Monday night by 179.4 million dollars, which set the record as the most expensive painting ever sold at auction.
The work was placed as part of a batch of several paintings by masters of the twentieth century, organized by the auction house Christie’s, based in New York.
The buyer won the auction by telephone offer, after only two bidders, both by phone, once the disputed its price exceeded 150 million dollars.
The offer He exceeded the triptych of British painter Francis Bacon, “Three study Lucien Freud,” which two years ago had set the record for the most expensive work sold at auction, with 142.4 million dollars.
The painting, a colorful festival that represents numerous scantily clad women, is a classic piece of cubist period of Picasso, who performed as a tribute to the play by Eugene Delacroix.
The piece comes from a series of 15 versions designated by the letters of the alphabet, which Picasso painted between 1954 and 1955, and were originally sold to a family only, Ganz, for just over $ 200,000.
The auction yesterday also set another record, after the piece by Italian artist Alberto Giacometti, “Man pointing” was sold at 141.2 million dollars, the highest price ever paid for a sculpture at auction.
The sale also achieved by a man who made the bid by telephone, he beats another version of the piece of Giacometti, “Man pointing 1″, which was sold in 104.3 million dollars in 2010
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