Picasso’s palette sold for £45,000.
The first of Picasso’s paint palette’s ever to appear at auction sold for £45,000 at Sotheby’s in London today. Prices soared at the Picasso in Private sale of work from the collection of the artist’s grand daughter Marina.
A glazed vase – Trois Visages – sold for £305,000 over a top estimate of £70,000 and Femme Debut – with the same high estimate – made £173,000. A bronze sculpture inspired by Marie Therese Walter sold for £425,000 over a top estimate of £180,000. A pencil on paper work, Études pour femme au chapeau, made £250,000 over a top estimate of £70,000. The sale totalled £12 million.
Visage
Étude d’un buste de femme, bras levé, sold for £221,000
