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Photo provided by Sotheby’s portrait “Deux Personnages (The lecture)”, in which the Spanish Pablo Picasso reflected two women reading, which was sold today in the room Sotheby’s of London 16.38 million pounds (22.93 million euros). EFE

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             The portrait of Picasso “Deux Personnages” reached 23 million euros

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24/06/2015 15:10 (- 6 GTM)

                London, June 24 (EFE) .- The portrait “Deux Personnages (The lecture)”, in which the Spanish Pablo Picasso reflected two women reading, sold today in the room Sotheby’s in London for 16.38 million pounds ( 22.93 million euros).
The painting, a composition of intense colors inspired by the artist’s muse Marie-Therese Walter, was one of the protagonists parts of a session devoted to Impressionist and modern art which also Picasso’s work “Nature Morte” was auctioned for 4.4 million pounds (6.16 million euros).
Another of the highlights of the evening at Sotheby’s was the work of Ukrainian Kazimir Malevich “Suprematism , 18th Construction “, which was sold for 21.42 million pounds (29.96 million euros).
The work, one of the centerpieces of the retrospective that the Tate Modern in London dedicated to the author in 2014 , was below the maximum price estimated by the auction house, which provided that could reach 30 million pounds (42 million euros).
It is a canvas that Malveich executed during the most creative years of his career, in which consolidated his abstract style emerged as one of the essential artists of the twentieth century.
Exceeded expectations instead work Austrian Symbolist Gustav Klimt “Bildnis Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsöványi)” which reached the 24.78 million pounds (34.69 million euros), above the high estimate of 18 million pounds (25.2 million euros).
The painting, elongated format (149.5 per 45 cm), in which Klimt shows his influence on Japanese art he was the most expensive auction in London.
piece by 16.94 million pounds (23.71 million euros) He sold the painting by French impressionist Edouard Manet’s “Le Bar aux Folies Bergère” one of the most representative of the artist.
This is the first version of the celebrated work of the same title that is displayed in the Courtauld Gallery in the capital British.
Manet remained somewhat below the estimated price of 20 million pounds (28 million euros) which predicted the auction house, as well as the work “Nature morte aux handles” of also French Paul Gauguin, who came up 11.57 million pounds (16.2 million euros), slightly less than the maximum estimated 15 million pounds (21 million euros).
instead Exceeded expectations the Edgar Degas sculpture “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans” a bronze figure of a meter high, which sold for 15.82 million pounds (22.14 million euros).
the Spanish Joan Miró, “Peinture”, a work dedicated to Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti and his wife, claimed by 7.7 million pounds (10.78 million euros).